Cleaning out the SKS hidey hole

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For the past few months I've been using my friend's cleaning kit when cleaning my SKS after a trip to the range. I was poking around the rifle today and remembered about the little hidey hole in the butt that stores the field cleaning kit. I pulled the kit out and, as expected, the thing was caked with cosmoline. Cleaning the kit itself has been a bit of a chore due the the copious amounts of cosmoline but I am a bit unsure of how to clean out the hidey hole. Filling the wooden stock with hot, soapy water sounds like a pretty bad idea to be honest but I can't really think of any other way to go about it. Any ideas?
 
Wipe the kit down and leave it at that. If you feel greatly inclined wad up a rag and give it a twist inside the hole to scrape out the worst of it. If you do that part wrong you're going to have to pull the butt plate.
 
I suggest just manually dig out as much as cosmoline as you can then field strip the gun and let the stock bake under sun shine for a while. All the cosmoline will sweat out and if there are any excess amount, it will just drip down. Make sure tilt the stock at an angle and periodically rotate the stock so all its surface get a good soak of sunshine. That way, not only you are ridding the cosmoline from the hidey hole, but you are also sweating out cosmoline from the whole stock!
 
Karai17 said:
For the past few months I've been using my friend's cleaning kit when cleaning my SKS after a trip to the range. I was poking around the rifle today and remembered about the little hidey hole in the butt that stores the field cleaning kit. I pulled the kit out and, as expected, the thing was caked with cosmoline. Cleaning the kit itself has been a bit of a chore due the the copious amounts of cosmoline but I am a bit unsure of how to clean out the hidey hole. Filling the wooden stock with hot, soapy water sounds like a pretty bad idea to be honest but I can't really think of any other way to go about it. Any ideas?
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If you really wan to get the cosmo out,remove the butt plate,the spring that pop the cleaning kit out. Wrap a clothe on a dowel or similar object and wipe the cosmo from the hole.Reassemble and that's it.
Joce
 
Pull the butt plate, remove the action. Stand the stock up on a thick pad of newspaper, outside in the sun - let warmth and gravity do the rest. To speed the process up, squirt some brake clean into the butt trap and/or wrap the stock in a black plastic garbage bag.
 
Dig out the grease the best you can with the butt plate off and shove a rolled up piece of newspaper inside for a day or two to soak up the grease.
 
Karai17 said:
For the past few months I've been using my friend's cleaning kit when cleaning my SKS after a trip to the range. I was poking around the rifle today and remembered about the little hidey hole in the butt that stores the field cleaning kit. I pulled the kit out and, as expected, the thing was caked with cosmoline. Cleaning the kit itself has been a bit of a chore due the the copious amounts of cosmoline but I am a bit unsure of how to clean out the hidey hole. Filling the wooden stock with hot, soapy water sounds like a pretty bad idea to be honest but I can't really think of any other way to go about it. Any ideas?
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