How do you guys remove the hand guard to be able to thoroughly clean the gas tube without buggering up the ferrule and destroying the pin. Can you reuse the same pin, or will you have to substitute it for another one (where to get another pin from)? I want to keep everything original on my Marstar Chinese SKS (factory 26).Thx.
Sks cosmoline removal
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Super_Chicken
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My and my buddy just got our rifles from marstar this weekend. We full disassembled them and soaked them in varsol. Did wonders with taking off all the cosmo. Be sure to wipe it off with paper towel as best you can first. We did one first that we didn't wipe and the varsol was yellow in minutes. The second we wiped first and the varsol didn't get as dirty.
We just need to do the stocks in the oven, probably going to do that tomorrow at another friends house (he has an older over) and reassemble.
Any tips on how to remove the wood from the gas tube section of the gun. It looks like the metal was folded over both ends of the wood so it can't be removed. Any tips on removing the cosmo out of the nooks of that part of the rifle?
We just need to do the stocks in the oven, probably going to do that tomorrow at another friends house (he has an older over) and reassemble.
Any tips on how to remove the wood from the gas tube section of the gun. It looks like the metal was folded over both ends of the wood so it can't be removed. Any tips on removing the cosmo out of the nooks of that part of the rifle?
Some guy on here mentioned you can wrap the gas tube with the cover in paper towel and throw it on your cars dashboard. I'm more of a neat freak and feel the need to take it apart. But from what I understand, after you remove the pin from the ferule (it's peened on both sides, so you'll have to put it in a vise and bang the hell out of it carefully), you'll need to find another pin to replace the original one you fubar'd. I've been doing some research, and a few guys are using a brass picture frame nail as a replacement with good success. The brass is easy to peen and file down, and it's also easy if you ever need to take it out again for whatever reason. Good luck.
No, he doesn't mean boil the wood. He means to boil the cosmoline out of the metal parts, and to bake the cosmoline out of the wood (separate wooden stock from metal parts). The dry heat from the oven causes the cosmoline to sweat out of the wood. You don't have to use an oven, you can use the sun and leave your stock out on the porch with some paper towels underneath it occasionally wiping the cosmoline as it sweats out.
I have my stock in an oven right now at 190 degrees, its been over 3 hours and the cosmo doesn't seem to be showing signs of slowing down. What should I be putting on the stock after all the cosmoline has been sweated out? I assume the wood will be rather dry, so to prevent it from cracking, etc. I assume there is some sort of treatment I can use on it. Any suggestions?
Super_Chicken
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- Toronto, ON
It's not that it's not melting. We'd check up on it every 30 mins and there would be spots all over the paper towel of where it absorbed it. I would wipe it down as best I could with fresh towel, rewrap and throw it back in the oven. They baked for over 6 hours. Right now they are cool and still wrapped in clean towel, but if you touch them you can still feel the greasy cosmo all over. Which I think slice was asking if we should put any finish or anything on them?
