Gooey Gat Gunk Bustin' 🧼 Cosmoline Removal 101! [Guide]
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- If you ever find yourself in possession of a military surplus rifle that it's been in storage for a hot minute, chances are you're going to have to grapple with the greasy, disgusting enigma of cosmoline!
Used to seal small arms against the elements and prevent rust and corrosion for decades at a time, cosmoline is a super useful protective grease agent, but it can be an absolute nightmare to clean if you've never experienced it before.
Follow along with the video as we beat the gunk out of two surplus Chinese Type 56s, or check the link below for the full tutorial!
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Post below if you have ever smelled like cosmoline for days upon end 😎
How does that cosmo, work as a beard wax, brotha?
here is a papa tip. many people like to reblue and refinish there surplus weapons . I have take wood off weapons put them in hot sunshine . When oils- linseed oil comes comes out of gun , I take Clorox on sponge, but wipe oil off with a rag first. doing this over a few hour a day in hot weather. you don’t need to stay with it. check every 30-45 minutes, fepeating process above it wil take
Can one use cosmoline to condition a really savage beard?
Yup. Cleaned my friend's Mosin-Nagant 91/30 and stunk for days.
To quote Jay Sherman, "IT STINKS"!!!
"Brake cleaner is pretty nasty stuff, be sure to use it in a well ventilated space"....Mechanic laughing in brake cleaner induced psychosis.
devin anderson my thoughts exactly
nothing like getting crap off your hand after a long day with a couple sprays of brake cleen
We use that shit at the Toyota dealer I'm at. Nothing beats the smell of Brakleen in the mornin'
I guess spraying brake cleaner on bare feet isn't great either.
@@AlexanderIrwin never done that before
i have been cleaning cosmoline from firearms for over 30 years with charcoal lighter fluid!
it's cheap, soak for about 10 min and it floats right off.
blow it off with compressed air.
won't harm wood, plastic,or composites
it also leaves a very light coating on the metal that inhibits rust.
i have never had ANY problems using it.
plus it's less toxic than the gun solvents on the market.
Oddball is the man
Good idea. Kerosene would work too then, similar stuff
The whole time I was watching this I was thinking "I wonder how well soaking it overnight in lighter fluid or kerosene works."
Can I boil the parts he said it melts with heat.
@@thetankhunter100 Yes. That's what an army would do. Large metal trashcan with water heated to boiling with some solvent in it to make sure tight spots are cleaned. Cleaned M-16's that way with final trashcan nothing but hot water. Rifle drys real quick.
This video fills me with regret. I decided to pass on that PSA SKS deal and now I'm yelling at past me through time and space. Loved the video, laughed at all the cuts with the rifle falling over.
It’s back on sale
Still there!!!
Sportmans warehouse has them. 499$
Buds, PSA, Atlantic Firarms all have them right now. I ordered one from each to compare shipping time and conditions.
PSA has them now.
''...wear gloves, you don't want that stuff on your skin."
Wears shorts and flip-flops XD Great!
I’m not the only one who thought that. Lol
Yeah, the exposed toes got me as well.
Back in the day when 8mm mausers and mosins were selling for $50, my dad and I bought about 10 of them at the gun show one year. Completely packed with cosmoline, we just took them to the car wash and hit them with high pressured hot water and soap. They cleaned up pretty well. With a basic cleaning and lube afterwards, they functioned well and were great plinkers. These were bolt actions so doing this method with semi autos may yield less desirable results.
main problem with that is water logging the wood and causing rusting to the metal in areas nearly impossible to dry.
@@PilotTed
We never had that issue, not to mention the wood was soaked with cosmoline so water logging it was impossible. That's also why we took them home and finished cleaning so there wasn't a possibility of rust.
My Mosin Nagant still oozes this S... out of the stock after 10 years .
Acetone or mineral spirits combined with a hair dryer will leech it right out
My Mosins had soo much shellac on the wood a few wipes with a mineral spirit dampened cloth was all they needed. My CMP M1 garands on the other hand not so much.
@@scinto23 mine had cosmoline inside the barrel channel the wood jusy soaked it up
I found oven cleaner stripes the finish and cosmo right off
My K98k as well since 2006 lol.
I like ta use mineral spirits, instead of the break cleaner, myself. Works great on wood as well. Might even be a bit cheaper? Thanks for the share!!
Ditto. It's not nearly as harsh as the brake cleaner, too. Oil based, so it's cool to get it on all the parts.
I just put it in a spray bottle, and it worked like a champ. And soooper cheap.
Turpentine, kerosene and in the same family
Mineral Spirits, absolutely, for degreasing metal. haven't tried it on wood, just yet, because the front barrel band on my Mauser K98 won't come off without taking the whole stock with it. I'm gonna try steam first because wood is always gonna have water in it.
You are correct my friend.
Soak in Mineral Spirits. Rinse in HOT water. Blow the parts off with compassed air.
Has worked great every time, and NO SCRUBBING.
I’m keeping my rifle stock full of cosmoline so nobody asks to shoot it 😂😂😂 and it keeps my skin silky smooth
As smooth as eggs?
Tastes good to 10/10
Automatic grease dispenser aka never gonna have a rusty gun.
By “skin” you really mean your pecker
I know this a joke, but If the communist didn't clean it after shooting corrosive ammo, is might be a bad idea to let those salts settle
So that’s what they used in Lenin’s embalming
Nope, they used Vodka.
@@kennethbrown5200 yea he was pretty much embalmed anyways
When I go I want to be embalmed in cosmoline. When the sun goes red giant, I'll still be hanging around.
When Russia gets warm enough, the Cosmoline will melt, and Lenin will awaken to crush capitalism!
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Dude I bought one of these from Classic Firearms. I hit it with mineral spirits, cleaned it, VERY, VERY thoroughly, then went to go shoot it. About ten rounds in, it looked like it shit ALL OVER MY HANDS. This video is going to be very useful.
It's gonna keep leeching that stuff, I wouldn't clean it again, just let it happen-- it'll be gone soon enough.
Man you really un-slimed that wood so good 😂😂 looks like you had lots of practice.
An expert, some say 😎
Wonder if Goo Gone would take slime off your wood? I know saliva will
When you were describing how it feels and smells I started laughing. Anybody who has ever smelled that will never forget it. I remember back in the '80s there were so many SKS's at any gun show that if you didn't buy anything on the way out they would hand your SKS. I'm joking of course. They used to have them stacked up by the cases. The original wood boxes that the shipment came in. Most of the time you could talk them down to $60 a rifle. Most of the time everybody was selling them for $80 and you could get a discount if you bought the whole crate. I always waited until the show was over to go over and haggle over the price.
Castrol back in the '80s had a great I need absolutely fantastic engine cleaner that would cut through any amount of grease. That's what I used to use. I would hang the pieces by a piece of wire and heat them up with a heat gun. Once I got everything warm I would spray them down with the degreaser. Let it sit and squirt everything down. Depending on how much was in there sometimes I could get away with one time but I always counted on at least two or three times.
Thank you for making this video you actually brought back fun memories I had when I was a young man.
Grease Nuggets
Mmmm yummy....
Bought two type 56s over the last 6 months and I have to say, cleaning these guys up was one of the most engrossing, addicting, and down right rewarding things I’ve done in recent memory. I wish there was more available right now, I would buy another in a heartbeat.
right now on palmetto state just got 1
I found that soaking the parts (not the wooden stock) in mineral spirits for about five minutes and scrubbing with a tooth brush was quicker than meticulously spraying with brake cleaner. Didn’t appear to mess with the finish but beware it’s pretty strong stuff it melted through two pairs of nylon gloves.
Murphys oil soap for stocks, hot water in the bath tub and use the oil soap.
ok
@@bigorangecatgoogal7586 Just don't let any of it down the drain afterwards unless snaking out a drain pipe is something that you enjoy.
I bought a M91/30 7 years ago and had a much easier method. I pulled the stock off and did basically the same thing they did for the wood. I disassembled the bolt and poured boiling water over all of the small components. I did the same thing with the barrel. I know what you are thinking "what a moron putting metal in contact with water". But its not actually a problem. The cosmoline melts and runs right off with the water, and the hot water left on the parts evaporate in a few seconds. Then hit with gun oil and reassemble.
Yes!! Used the same method to clean up my SKS and Mosin 91/30. I cleaned the wooden stock with mineral spirits followed by packing and wrapping the stock with toilet paper and then letting it sit in the hot summer sun wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag.
With all the Mosins and SKS I've de cosmosed. In my past, I've also use a long shallow tub with straight decreased and a heat gun to the wooden stock's, take you time with the heat gun keep it moving and hang the stock up from string and work from the Top downs, smells like crap, but really works. How this helps everyone
Pre-circa 2002 AD when SKSs could be had for under $150 in mint condition: most folks used mineral spirits and elbow grease, the oven on low for the stock (with a lot of rinsing under the hose and wet sanding with more mineral spirts) and boiling the BCG assembly on the stove followed by more dunking in mineral spirits. SKSs were at ranges everywhere and it was a common sight to see one act like an open bolt machine gun when the firing pin stuck as a result of not properly cleaning the BCG assembly. This was way before the invention of inexpensive Chinese made ultrasonic cleaners and the methods I listed above worked fine, but had to be performed. Back then, cleaning out cosmoline would be a whole weekend event for a single rifle. Never did it myself, but a widely accepted method of removing cosmoline from stocks back then was putting it in a bag of kitty litter and placing in a hot attic or garage for several days (shaking the bag every day or so). The final phase of cosmoline removal was the live fire and then mag dump. Guessing less than 1% of SKS owners who got their rifle in cosmoline and made it safe to shoot didn't have cosmoline burn off on their first trip to the range.
Back in the early 2000's when I had my C&R license, I created a "stock heater" which was essentially just some 6-8" dia galvanized vent pipe, and a small, cheap ceramic heater. Wrap the stock in newspaper/paper towel, and slide into the pipe. Put the ceramic heater on one end, turn on high, and let it blow into the pipe for an hour or two. Stock would sweat out nearly all the cosmoline. Also, we made a concoction called "Ed's Red" which was a mix of ATF (automatic transmission fluid), Kerosene, Aliphatic Mineral Spirits, and Acetone. You could also add in some Lanolin for a lubricant, but I never did. That stuff is a great gun cleaner, and dissolves cosmoline like nobody's business.
Years ago when I bought mine for $99 I broke it down and ran it through the dishwasher with no detergent. Worked awesome.
My ol lady said don't even think about the dishwasher
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My best method for cleaning cosmoline is to put a large pot (turkey fryer size) of water over heat to boil. While you're waiting, disassemble. Once the water is boiling, put the smaller parts in a basket and dip into the boiling water. The paraffin melts at 120ish degrees and the cosmoline simply flows off the parts. When you get the parts out of the water, wipe them down with a rag. Clean with a brush and the oil of your choice. Larger parts you would have to dip half, clean and then dip the other half. Floating firing pin type bolts really need to be disassembled so you can get all that oxidized cosmoline out of the firing pin channel. Also a good idea to remove the extractor and clean behind it as well. This takes what can be an 8 hour job and reduces it to 1 - 2 hours, depending on your knowledge of the specific firearm.
Just replied with the same method 12 minutes ago before I saw your comment.
I picked one of these up from Classic when they first came in. The cleaning process took a while, about three hours. However, they clean up really nice and look pretty good. I used mineral spirits to clean mine. Also, I wrapped the stock in a black plastic bag and put it on the dash of my car. It's a lot of work.
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I take all the parts and use a Rubbermaid tray and soak them for 24 hours in kerosene, it does a pretty good job of dissolving the cosmoline, I put on some gloves and use small brushes now and then over the 24 hours to keep loosening up the cosmoline and put them back into the tub to soak, I've also used this method to clean car carburetors, it saves a lot of work and really gets all the goo out of all the nooks and crannies, I keep it covered so the kerosene doesn't evaporate, I use tubs with covers on them and this put the tub in a plastic garbage bag to seal it up. The longer you let the parts sit in the kerosene the less work you have to do to get all the cosmoline off.
Larry Potterfield of MidwayUSA has a 6" diameter PVC pipe capped at one end, filled with acetone to soak oil saturated stocks/ parts and it seems to work very well.
Acetone is nasty stuff. Read the MSDS on it. You really need good PPE.
@@everready19373 it's a damn sight better than MEK or other carcinogenic solvents.
@@everready19373 nerd
Im an semi retired M/C mechanic. Lucky enough to have a Safety Kleen parts washer. Works like a champ for cleaning Cosmolene. As for the wood Super Clean seems to do the job well. Thanks
Best method I've ever found for removing Cosmoline is straight up number 2 diesel oil. Take a plastic tub, add enough diesel fuel to cover the parts and let it sit for a couple of hours before hitting it with an old tooth brush.
Yes exactly what I would do. I'm in West Virginia so I would even use gasoline. No environmental Nazis here.
@@aw738 I guess that is cheaper than brake cleaner, but is that even safe for the wood?
@@PilotTed No not safe for wood. You would need to remove it like in the video.
This was very very very enjoyable to watch!! Thanks!!
I know a guy who used a 5 gallon bucket of engine degreaser and cement vibrator. Little experimenting with how to attach said vibrator and it surprisingly worked really well.
Having a designated old pot to boil the bolt parts and other metal bits and peices of cosmoline covered guns works really good. JUst make sure to use something like wd40 and shoptowels / q-tips to drive out any leftover moisture after removing them from the boiling. Has worked good for me so far, its a background process so while they are boiling you can tackle the wood and the barrel. Just remember they will be hot! Strain out the pot and let them cool down just enough for safe handling.
I have heard that folks have had good results putting parts in an oven on warm and letting cosmoline drip out into a pan
Other than the receiver and barrel, and stock, all the other "pieces" I put into a plastic bin with mineral spirits and let them soak. Any areas I couldn't physically touch to scrub I blew with an air hose (90lbs. pressure) and then soaked again, and blew again. Everything came out real nice. I received my gun from a previous owner and he just hadn't done the best job removing the cosmoline, so I didn't have any caked issues, just some detailed areas that needed cleaning. I highly recommend the mineral spirits.
Can you imagine how many rifles are at the bottom the oceans? Supply ships sunk, those brand new rifles asleep in the deep, protected by beautiful cosmo for the next millennium?
If I could get cosmoline air fresheners I would. Another decent method is if you have a wash basin sink get the water as hot as possible and use old tooth brushes with dish soap. Works well for shorter rifles and smaller parts.
Ha! Love the simple step-by-step on this, with some humor.
Yes, make sure the firing pin channel is kept clean. I've had mine go into unexpected 3 round burst mode a few times. It's cool and not cool at the same time. More not-cool. :-)
How is that not cool
Automotive parts cleaning tub filled with JP8 worked out pretty well.
In the past I've disassembled, wipe excess off and then used copious amounts of HOT water on the metal and cat litter in a trash bag in hot sun for the wood. Might use a solvent (like the brake cleaner) on the bore just because it's harder to keep hot water running through it like other smaller parts you can just put in a bucket and douse. WD-40 on the metal do displace water (duh) in small crevices and holes and then blow/wipe dry and oil. Wipe the cat litter residue off of the wood after a few hours sweating and then clean (going to try the product in the vid next time I need to). Light coat of linseed or tung oil after a few trips to the range to let any remaining gunk sweat out. Good vid
I use an aluminum 1/2 tray with paint thinner, or mineral spirits (same thing). I strip the rifle and let the parts soak, then scrub with a brass bristle brush which won't scratch the finish, and which gets into springs and other small spaces. To clean the barrel, I put a patch on a cleaning rod and push out the glob of cosmoline. Then, holding the barrel over the aluminum 1/2 tray. I pour the paint thhinner down the barrel then scrub with a bore brush, followed by dry patches until the come out clean. Only one pass through the barrel per patch. Then dry the parts off and oil the rifle as usual. To clean the wood after the paint thinner, I use olive oil. It cleans the dirt & grime off the wood and also feeds the wood which is probably all dried out. This should take no more than 3/4 hour. I used to dread cleaning off cosmoline. It's really no big deal.
We got a couple of M-2s wrapped in cosmoline and they were easy as hel to get ready for use!
They were pre-wrapped in wax paper and the cosmoline was hard as stone!
I had no idea what to do until my platoon sergeant just said get a small hammer and chipw away it.
It shattered easily and because of the wax paper wrap, all we had to really do was re-lub the gun, adjust its head-space and timing, let-er-rip...
No solvent of any kind as I recall!
We also did the same with some M-203s... this was in the early seventies. Everything I played with with this was a rifle, machine gun, 203, wrapped in wax paper with a hard shell surrounding it.
Cosmoline cleaning videos are so damn satisfying.
We purchased a used dishwasher, for our gun shop, back in the mid 80s. Fit all the metal (no wood) inside, and flame on!
I just boil my parts in hot water in a turkey fryer.
I use a Homer bucket and slowly pour a kettle over the broken down gun. Give it a wipe down and oil right away.
@@theumpteenthtime8854
I'm a little slow. I know what a turkey frier is, but what's a Homer bucket?
@@vodkaone1053 orange bucket from Home Depot.
@@theumpteenthtime8854
Thanks. I may seem ignorant, but I'm not afraid to ask and learn.
Lay it down on some aluminum foil and leave out on a sunny day
I used a damp rag and a hot iron to lift out some of the indents in the wood stock, it does help. I used Citrus strip paint & varnish stripper for most of cosmoline on wood parts, sweated the rest out on a towel on my dashboard, wipe off and turn over from time to time. Brake cleaner and I think it was low odor mineral spirits for the rest. I used a boar brush a toothbrush and pipe cleaners
Love the smell of cosmoline in the morning! Solvent tank is nice . Good video I used heat gun on wood runs right off.
I love that the rifle refused to listen to you and kept falling. It adds to it's character.
The best I've used is brake cleaner, like you mentioned. That stuff basically just dissolves that cosmoline. Man even getting a little bit of that cosmoline on your hands, multiple washes with soap or using WD-40 don't even touch it. I've also used a concentrated (not much water) Simple Green solution with the Lyman ultra sonic cleaner, and that works, but it takes multiple 15 min passes to clean things. The brake cleaner is really good though.
I think I'll try that garbage bag method for my stock. I had to take every screw and part apart from my M48 to clean them but didn't do much to the stock. I want to refinish the stock but I think there's some cosmoline I can get out of it still.
i mean, my number 7 bayonet for my enfield had cosmoline in the pommel when i got it. i just cleaned that out. soaking the crevices in CLP softened it enough to get the locking mechanism moving far more easily, facilitating better cleaning with qtips
Used to un crate these daily. B 12 chem tool works great.
for those who don't have a sonic cleaner and all day to use it. I found that simple green+ boiling water just makes cosmoline melt off the small metal parts.
Wow! Very informative and very clever. Enjoy your natural wit
I disassembled a Mosin Nagant M44 and ran it through a dishwasher on power scrub a couple times. Came out the other end looking great.
Mean green is amazing for cleaning bayos and other blades loaded with this lovely snot
I soaked the metal parts of my Carcano in mineral spirits and it worked great. Not as much waste as using brake cleaner.
I really can't wait to get a surplus Chinese sks to clean up!
Cosmoline covered half century old guns. A classic gunbroker buy for sure
That rifle falling over is the master of comedic timing, especially 8:36
A steam machine is your friend here... great at removing/melting cosmoline without any harsh chemicals.
Invest in a cheap Harbor Freight heat gun! trust me you'll be glad you did! Not only does it help loosen up the cosmoline on metal parts but it'll helps sweat some of it out of the Woodstock.
Thanks . That was an enjoyable video. Made me laugh too ! 😀👍
One personal takeaway is that before you “wipe down” with a shop towel, you gotta make sure that cosmoline is fresh and there’s no dirt or sand in it. Otherwise you gonna risk scratching your finish. When in doubt, do it touchless and blast it down with brake cleaner, always be safe and spend that few extra bucks on an extra can of brake cleaner than sorry.
Cleaning the cosmoline off a surplus firearm is part of the hobby man. That's almost as good as shooting the actual gun for me.
Almost 30 years ago my SKS was de-cosmolined in a diesel bath. Replaced the wood furniture with a composite Monte Carlo stock.
4:15 I love that you guys left that in😂🤣👌🏾
A heat gun helps if you live in a cold area, or working through the winter, OR dont want to wait for mother nature to sweat your furniture off, keep the heat gun moving, or you'll burn the wood, its also an option to refinish and reseal the furniture if you want to go that far
Air compressor with tiny nozzle for the extra hard places works great
Mineral spirits Are good. I soaked my small parts in a bath of it. In a turkey pan. Then I used Q-tips and tooth pics to get more of the stuff off. A spray bottle of mineral spirits helps too. Also rags and paper towels. For the wood. I rubbed it down with 50/50% linseed oil and mineral spirits. I used 400 steel wool for that.
I had some soviet industrial bearings in cosmoline. Soaked them in gas for a day or two, every 4h or so tried to move and brush them a bit. Came out spotless.
Picked one up a week ago, watched 20 video's on how to clean all that cosmo off, scared the shit out of me, then i read cosmo melts at 120°, so I bought a plastic tub at Target. Disassembled the rifle, put it in the oven at 220 for an hour, put the parts in the tub, poured a big pot of boiling water over it, agitated it, dumped the water did that entire process twice, not 1 drop of cosmo anywhere on or in the rifle, recoil spring, trigger, bore, nowhere. No brushes, rods, chemicals. Just paper towels, a little red tacky, some Mobil 1, it runs like a DEERE
WD-40 and some heat is the best (only) solution. Heat is not necessary, but makes things easier. I don’t remember the exact chemical, but what happens is that a chemical component of cosmoline evaporates away over time. The cosmoline turns into a dry wax that resists pretty much every gun related solvent. WD-40 has the chemical that evaporated out of the cosmoline in it, so when you use WD-40 you’re basically reconstituting the cosmoline to it’s originally applied state making it as easy as possible to wipe away.
To paraphrase Flannel Daddy aka Garand Thumb: "If you have ever had Cosmoline ooze out of a wooden stock after you think you have scraped every bit off of a surplus rifle, go ahead and mash the "Like and Subscribe buttons..."
Synopsis: drunk communist rifle can't stand up while tactical hipster talks about how he unslimed his wood outside of his house.
what gave it away? The tactical nut huggers and sandals or they haircut beard combo?
Cosmoline is a good band
HAHA HE CALLED THE SUN AN ANGRY HEAT ORB OMG HOW FUNNY THIS DUDE IS SO FUNNY AND ORIGINAL
Also when cleaning with brake cleaner make sure you wear some safety goggles, don't wear shorts and sandals wear pants and shoes. When using pressurized cleaners you always get some kind of blow back at you.
I used diesel,gasoline..Never had problem.And it is much cheaper then brake cleaner.Worked awesome for me.
I use a 36" long steel tank to boil all the metal parts in. The cosmo comes right off. Then I use a long plastic tank (all tanks bought from Brownells) to final wash the parts in odorless mineral spirits. The wood I wash down with mineral spirits. Everything comes out sparkling clean and 100% cosmo free.
Great overview. Just picked up a Yugo sks that is absolutely SMOTHERED in cosmo. Its my second time cleaning one but honestly I was pretty lucky with the 1st mil-surp as it had very little but this has its everywhere and thick. Got my weekend assignment! Mineral spirit bath incoming!!
Very nice!
When I first got my SKS, to remove the cosmoline, I simply poured jug after jug of boiling water through it. That was the advice the gun store salesman gave me and it worked well.
Diesel fuel and an assortment of wire and plastic cleaning brushes always worked fine.
The rifle falling over killed me, everytime. Ha Ha Ha
I just used boiling water to clean that crap out of my SKS . I field stripped my rifle right down to the stock and put all the small parts into a canning pot and boiled for a couple minutes till all of the cosmeline was desolved off the parts and suspended in the water . Removed them from the water let air dry and wiped down and then lubricated them with a high quality gun oil . Then i placed the barrel and stock in a long trough and covered with boiling water . Took most of the day to do this but was alot cheaper then 4 cans of brake cleaner and less harmfull to me and the environment.
Went to a friends auto shop and used his parts cleaner, with solvent and a brush. Works great took about an hour.
Man, I wished I watched your video 2 yrs ago… .. cause the wood stock ideas would have helped tremendously 😂!!!
Lol, i have cleaned only firing pin,bolt and spring. Barrel is selfclening after few shots.thrust me. Nice video,thank you
I’ve used mineral spirits for years and now I have a SMLE packed full of cosmoline I want to salvage the arguably pristine stock off of. Only thing I couldn’t remember is what you can use on the wood and what you can’t in regards to not destroying the original finish
So that's NUTZ bro... I use a BLOW DRYER! I just heat it up it melts right off, small parts all go in my shop toaster oven... I always doublecheck the temp with a HF digital laser thermo trigger activated thingy giger to make sure I don't go over 160...I use a wire grate over the oven tray and it cleans up easy as well. Once I get the parts up to temp, I pull them out, take them outside and hose them down with goof off... Has worked for me many times
(Caveat: You're results may vary, I'm simply explaining what I do, do what you want at your own risk, I don't risk accept any stupid decisions you make)
Gun Scrubber is the best product I have found to use on cosmoline
All great advice.
Completely informative and super entertaining
I boil water and simple green mix in the turkey fryer. I put a few stocks once on the roof in the Midwest sun all day.
I cleaned mine different ways but only found one that works. Tried the parts wrapped in paper towels in a trash bag, didn't work. Tried mineral spirits, kinda worked.
The one that worked for me was hot water mixed with simple green was the one that worked. Of course wipe your gun with some oil afterwards since you just stripped off the protective coat.
Diesel or JP8 in a bucket and a brush. Had to coat all our M2 BMG with something similar and that’s how we cleaned them.
whilst not available as it used to be, Carburetor/ Choke cleaner is aggressive on cosmoline plus it dries really quickly . break cleaner is good
too. it's best if you've got a buddy that has a engine shop or if you work in a machine shop or mechanics workshop, a nice "safti kleen" bath with a spigot in it works the best. or a Kerosene bath in a shallow tub ( but you need to have a place to get rid of it) without polluting ground water etc.
The Last SKS I Cleaned I used Brake Cleaner Stripped it down on a Pick Nic Table In a Pouring Rain Did not need to rinse Lol My wife kicked me out of the House On the First spray of Brake Cleaner! Cheers !!
Boiling water works great. That's what the army used to do with immersion heaters in metal trashcans full of hot water with one with a little solvent in the water. Let it soak swishing around in can with soe solvent till rifle is burning hot then dunk to rinse in straight water trashcan. With rifle super hot the rifle drys quick even in cold weather.
I used oven cleaner but it took the paint of my picatinny rail on my ak. No problem. Just repainted it with grill black paint and it was fixed. I also didn't have any wood furniture to deal with but if I did I would leave the wood pieces out in the sun to leach the cosmo out of them.