A Quick and Inexpensive Way to Remove Cosmoline From a Rifle Stock
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2013
- Sorry for the "ums..." and "ahh..." guys. I lost count around the 200 mark. You don't realize how many times you say it until you record yourself without adequate preparation. After listening to myself, I had to resist the urge to troll my own video. Anyways if you can manage to filter that stuff out, you'll find another how-to video that is simple and easy. Tilex (non-bleach) is probably the simplest, cheapest and quickest way to removing cosmoline from a rifle stock. No boiling, baking, hot water dipping or solvent soaking. Just plain old tap water and non-bleach Tilex.
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Having a hell of a time with my gewehr 98. I inherited my grandfathers milsurp colletion last year and have been reviving them 1 at a time. No other rifle in the entire 16 rifle collection has as much cosmo. It's absolutely gacked. So much so that the rifle is stuck in the stock. Floor plate stuck to the magazine. Completely locked up. I've tried every trick. Nothing works. Nothing will even budge. Got the bolt apart fine and after about 2 hours it's as good as new...but. Gonna have to have the rest done by a professional. It's beyond me. Still....good video man. Thumbs up. Because this will help with the remaining 6 rifles i haven't gotten to yet
It helps to loosen things up if you can heat the entire firearm. Cosmoline readily liquifies when heated. Heating the entire firearm (as in a low temp oven) will help to free things up sufficiently to be able to disassemble the parts.
My best trick, since I live in California, take a trash bag and put it in a trunk of a car during summer or a hot day. Or take a metal trash can and a heat lamp and keep the rifle in the bag and let the heat soak it out. Just give it a wipe ever hour or so
Windex. Use it to clean off the metal and wood of your rifles. You could also use house hold ammonia... the ammonia stops the corrosive actions of the powder.
When I was watched a video on cleaning a Mosin, the youtuber said to use Windex, or any house hold ammonia.
Spray it on, wipe it down, clean/oil it like normal after firing, or before storage.
Easiest way I've ever cleaned a weapon, just be sure to use some can air, or WD-40, or another oil/spray to displace the Windex/ammonia.
Sprayed down my Mosin after cleaning with Windex with brake cleaner. Displaced the Windex, then just oiled it up as normal.
Fast and easy.
Branko Mijatovich
Windex is good surface cleaner as well as for cleaning the bores of rifles. What I've learned is that despite the common use of ammonia based products to "neutralize" corrosive residue left after shooting corrosive ammo, its the water in the ammonia based products and not the ammonia that does the trick. Corrosive primers do not have corrosive elements in them at all. The corrosive primers leave salt in the barrel which is hydroscopic (attracts moisture). The moisture then results in the corrosion of metal. These salts can be flushed out with water and nothing else. The ammonia in ammonia based products help to evaporate the water. It's also a very good copper cleaner. I use it to clean barrels with my electrical bore cleaner. When I clean my Mosin Nagant, I simply use hot or warm water and that works just fine. WD40 is good for displacing the residual moisture in the barrel after a cleaning. This can be useful if you are in the habit of washing out your barrels at the range and do not have your cleaning gear with you. The WD40 will preserve the barrel until you get home to finish the cleaning process. Since I usually go through my usual cleaning routine with my Mosin after a washdown, I skip the WD40 and go straight to the wire brush and patch.
See here for more info on corrosive primers: www.scotts-gunsmithing.com/f-a-q/gunsmith-related-f-a-q/corrosive-ammunition-cleaning-tips/
Thanks for the link (below).
Reminds me to clean my other Mosin.
used your method to also strip a M1 carbine the method works real nice
Great tip ! I bought a Mosin Nagant Chinese Type 53 and the stock is soaked with Cosmoline. I tried your method 2 times and need to do it a couple of more times. It works great.
I will also be using a heat gun (making sure not to burn the wood). I see what you meant by it 'bubbling'.
Question: When done, I want to treat the stock with Minwax tung oil. I have had great success with bass guitar bodies with it.
If there's just a little cosmo inside the wood, will the tung oil or polyurethane seal the stock? Or will the cosmo leach out and not allow the finish to dry? What; your experience with finishing the wood?
Thanks.
Mike
I know of no good way to "seal in" cosmoline. If the stock is soaked with the stuff, it will make its way to the surface through any sealer that you may apply. If cosmoline is impregnated deep into the wood and you've removed most of it from the surface, your finish will dry. However, cosmoline may eventually work its way back to the surface. Just wipe it off and you're good to go. If it shows up as bloches on the wood, strip the trouble areas with Tilex again and reapply TO or BLO.
I just striped my Yugo SKS using this method it works awesome, thanks for the cool tip
I've heard gunned on high to slowly sweat it out, nope, steamed it, nope, boiling water. Nope. Oven cleaner yes, but most likely damages stock, does not wash out with water. All the above work a little the oven cleaner alot, but this method is the safest and I would say least damaging to the stock. Wish they dipped all those old riffles in boiling linseed oil instead
Did this Tilex product remove the finish and or stain of the stock as well, or just the cosmoline. Where did you purchase your Garands.
CMP
Sir I always had good luck through the US Government CMP Program alot of paperwork but ur getting a good weapon mine was a rebuild with new barrel wood etc completely I paid right around 1500 for it
I've heard of soaking your parts in scrubbing bubbles and rinsing with hot watet to remove cosmoline from the metal. Do you think the tilex work on the metal like the scrubbing bubbles since they're the same product but different brands?
I have no experience with scrubbing bubbles so I can't say how effective it will be on cosmoline. I have little doubt that tilex will remove cosmoline from metal parts. As a personal matter, however, I try to avoid exposing metal to water or solutions containing water to minimize the formation of rust. I use, instead, any form of decreasing agent for metal including carburetor and parts cleaner (my preference), spray carburetor cleaner, acetone, or even brake kleen.
+Kaneguy Thanks, I'll keep this in mind for my next major gun cleaning sesh!
I actually just finished using the tilex on all my metal parts and it workex surprisingly well. I just soaked them in my sink, scrubbed them with a toothbrush, repeated a few times, rinsed it all down with very hot water, immediately dried everything, and then oiled liberally. There is almost no cosmoline at all to be found and the bolt is smooth as glass.
Thanks for the video!
That is great news. Thanks
Great video....Make all the other look stupid..Thanks
Lol I know what you mean there my wife would NOT give me her hair dryer but my.niece she bought a new one the handle broke on her old one repaired the handle now I got a hair dryer for free no trouble with the women in my family lol been with mine 20 yrs shes always right lol
Is there an equivalent product to Tilex without bleach? I can't find it where I live. Why can't it have bleach in it?
There are two reasons that I can think of. First, the molecules that produce color are called chromophores, and
bleach changes their composition so that they reflect light differently. Bleach literally bleaches the wood, resulting in a lightening of wood's natural coloration that may continue even after you're done applying the bleach. If you apply bleach to the stock of a rifle, it will result in a permanent change of the natural color. Secondly, bleach breaks down the complex organic polymers (or lignin) that hold the wood together, causing excessive damage to otherwise healthy wood.
So is there anything else that I could use? As bleach free Tilex doesn't exit where I live...
My bad. I've Heat guned*
Or, do it the smart easy way. Boiling water and heat gun.
I've tried* not heard
WTF is tilex??
I mold and mildew cleaner that is readily available in the U.S.
PURE BLEACH !
GD boring
+Petie Wheatstraw
Thanks for the constructive comment. It's as helpful as the instructional videos you have on your channel!
Peti the GD troll
Petite wheatstraw are you the devels son n law? The old timers say you married the Devils daughter?