Also I used brake clean on all my firearms for cleaning oil and crud, it is fine on brass.
Also I used brake clean on all my firearms for cleaning oil and crud, it is fine on brass.
Nice rifle by the way, 38-55 is a great caliber and tack driver accurate! Ammo in Canada is their only draw back, limmited and expensive, I cast a 250gr bullet and hand load, can't justify the price of factory ammo and very weak loaded, at least the Winchester stuff, buffalo bore ammo different story but at $80 a box of 20, lol nope.
Autosol is a metal polish that Ive used over the years, it does a great job on a variety of metals.
Any of the brass/silver metal polishes mentioned, should do the job, with about 5 seconds of light polishing on each spot - if it doesn't, it means the brass has been treated (coated) with a product - (some kind of "Clear-Coat") to keep the brass from oxydizing and going dull. If it has, the metal polish won't do anything, until you get under it.
The best stuff I have ever used for polishing brass was Peek. In the Navy we had Brasso which I found would move the dirt around making it hard to actually get a true polish, but Peek just removed it all easily and left a gleaming finish. Always loved when we would ‘acquire’ the bosns can for cleaning stations as it made it a lot quicker for us greasy stokers.
hey bud, looks like staining from storage grease or factory preservative...gun sitting on side in box for so long and it permeates out ....