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Posted: 7/23/2014 5:51:56 PM EDT
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Read where people had put their cosmo'd stock in a box full of cat litter and left it in the sun for a few days to let it soak out of the stock into the cat litter.
Anyone who has done this have a time suggestion? A week enough or should I give it two? I'd rather not do it more than once. 
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It depends entirely on how hot it gets, and how much absorptive material (cat litter) is in direct contact with the stock.
Cosmoline melts at about 120 degrees F, +/- 10 degrees, depending on formulation. Cat litter is mostly clay, and will absorb liquid until it becomes saturated. There are your requirements: 1.) Get the stock above 120F (preferably 130F), which shouldn't be too hard in a Texas summer, especially if you use black plastic trashbags. 2.) Replace the cat litter as soon as it starts getting saturated. The closer you get to those requirements, the less time it will take. The second is particularly important: as the hot stock cools every evening, any liquid cosmoline in contact with it goes right back to where it came from. Personally, having to stir around a steaming pile of baking hot, cosmo-soaked cat litter under the glaring Texas sun for a week sounds like a whole lot less fun than spending $20 and 1/2 hour to build a cosmo oven and letting the whole rifle bake gently for a couple of days, or even spending $20 and an hour to just remove all the cosmo with a heat gun. |
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$20 and 1/2 hour to build a cosmo oven and letting the whole rifle bake gently for a couple of days You sir have my undivided attention. Link to that? My Google fu turned up a lot of articles for putting the stock in the oven but nothing for multiple days. |
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You sir have my undivided attention. Link to that? My Google fu turned up a lot of articles for putting the stock in the oven but nothing for multiple days. Quoted:
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$20 and 1/2 hour to build a cosmo oven and letting the whole rifle bake gently for a couple of days You sir have my undivided attention. Link to that? My Google fu turned up a lot of articles for putting the stock in the oven but nothing for multiple days. Available here on our own website: low and slow My $20 cheapskate route was ductwork and a couple of lightbulbs, so it was not as efficient as some of the posted designs that take only a few hours. It got smashed up in one of my moves and I have limited room in my current house, so I now just use the heat gun. For some inexplicable reason, I feel compelled to salvage all that cosmoline; melting it off with gentle heat keeps it clean and uncharred. |
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