I would like to know the best way to do this.
Thanks in advance,
brair

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Originally posted by brair:
I would like to know the best way to do this.
Thanks in advance,
brair

A pan of gas and a brush. Mineral spirits on the wood.

I swear to God that stuff has glue in it!

The way I go about it is to first scrape off all that I can with an old credit card that I cut up into different shapes. Then I push a patch through the bore and gas tube to get that out. Lastly, I use mineral spirits with brushes and paper towels to get the last of it. Warming the metal prior helps a lot.

I have used gasoline on the ones I cleaned.

Last time I messed with it, I took it to a buddy who worked at a steam power plant and he sprayed it down with pressurized steam.

It has some rust flecking by the time I got it back on the receiver, but the cosmoline was gone.

Back when I had my C&R license and dealed with a lot of milsurps, I built a box to suspend barreled actions and stocks in. It was lined with heavy duty tin foil and had three lights bulbs as a heat source. There was a small door in the bottom that had a pan inside to catch the “drippings”. It did a very good job as long as you were patient.

gas, diesel, or (real) kerosene - and small bottle brushes to push through places

If push comes to shove.......acetone!!!

Kevin

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Originally posted by Kevin Gullette:
If push comes to shove.......acetone!!!

Kevin

dude - --- acetone, grease and rags? YIKES

I used Mike's method to get the worst of it. But if you are a serious milsurper, it is a labor of love.
For a real cleaning challenge, find one of the Victorian-era rifles made and stored for a century in Nepal. They say they used some form of rancid yak fat ...