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What is the best rust preventitive treatment for storing rifles for several years? S40 Youth and vitality are wasted on the young. | ||
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Lightly coat the rifle inside and out with a product called RIG. It stand for "Rust Inhibiting Grease". It's about the consistancy of Vasoline and cleans off easily when you want to use the rifle again, something that can't be said for cosmoline. It won't evaporate or run off. A small tube of RIG cost a few dollars and is enough to cover a lot of rifles. Mark Pursell | |||
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I find the coating is not nearly as important as treating the environment they are stored in. I have used big bags of dessicant for years with tell tale tabs that tell me when to 'bake off'the moisture for regenerating. | |||
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I would use RIG's and have no worries. | |||
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RIG is designed for that. For best protection clean the gun thoroughly, apply thin coat of RIG, wrap in some VPI paper [ vapor phase inhibiter].It can then be wrapped in plastic with dessicant. | |||
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Be sure to bury them below the frost line, and whatever you do, make sure you get a good GPS fix so you can find them easily. I have a customer who burried some about 30 years ago so his wife and her family wouldn't get them, and 2 years ago he came back to find a subdivision growing in the area he burried them...  | |||
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Cosmoline?  | |||
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And I'd then seal them in a plastic bag with VPI paper around them, in addition to the RIG. "Bitte, trinks du nicht das Wasser. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen." | |||
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plastic bag,what's that nonsense?Do you want to make things worst?Big condensation problem. | |||
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NONSENSE??Just when one starts to believe one knows everything, one learns something new!! Look in your Brownell's catalog. [/URL] [URL=http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.as...20PREMIUM%20STORAGE%20BAGS Meets Mil Spec P-3420F; Rust-Free Storage In Gun-Factory Paper - "Wrap around guns, tools, other steel valuables for protection from moisture and rust. 1 square foot of paper protects 1 cubic foot of space. Tests show 10-15 years protection when steel parts were wrapped in GUNWRAP, sealed in plastic and stored in a cool place. Will not damage bluing or steel. Not recommended for aluminum, silver, brass or copper. May cosmetically stain nickel plating, tho' normally cleans off. Not compatible with some older lacquer finishes. Modern finishes unaffected." http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.as...tle=GUNWRAP?%20PAPER They sell the bags and the VPI paper to put around the guns - I've stored rifles this way for up to 4 years, with absolutely no "condensation" or rust - what do you think the VPI paper is for? It takes ALL MOISTURE out of the air inside the sealed bag....... Once the moisture has been absorbed from the air inside the sealed bag, there can be no condensation at all-there's nothing in the air to condense. The military replaced Cosmoline with VPI paper and sealed plastic bags ages ago! (ACTUALLY, IF YOUR GUN IS SQUEAKY-CLEAN, YOU CAN SKIP ALL GREASE AND OIL, AND JUST USE THE PAPER AND THE PLASTIC BAG. YOUR GUN WILL REMAIN PERFECT INDEFINITELY INTO YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, AS LONG AS THE BAG STAYS SEALED!!!!) "Bitte, trinks du nicht das Wasser. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen." | |||
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Years ago I was getting a "booklet" montly called "Gun Tests." (not sure if you can even get it anymore) Anyway they did a test of several products and for the money and time spent, believe it or not, Vasaline did the best job throughout all the abuse they put it through. Smedley ______________________ Smedley  ______________________ From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' B.H.Obullshitter ------------------------------------ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" Winston Churchill ------------------------------------ "..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." Samuel Adams ------------------------------------ Facts are immaterial to liberals. Twisted perceptions however are invaluable. ------------------------------------ We Americans were tired of being thought of as dumb, by the rest of the world. So we went to the polls in November 2008 and removed all doubt.....let's not do it again in 2012 please. | |||
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Cosmoline is crude petrolatum. Vaseline's highly refined petrolatum. "A cheerful heart is good medicine." | |||
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