Cleaning corroded sks?
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PerversPépère
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Shawinigan (Quebec)
Even with a chromed chamber and barrel, you'll still have to rinse the salts out of the piston tube unless you want to see it seize.
Nothing difficult, though: get the tube off of the rifle, slip a funnel down it and let some hot water run in it. Be careful not to scald yourself.
Rince the piston too.
Once this is done, douse the parts with WD-40 to chase any moisture that hasn't evaporated and push an oiled patch down that tube. Get the patch off, oil that piston, wipe it dry and reassemble the works.
That's about it.
Sometimes, I roll a dab of green lithium grease into the piston grooves; somehow, it seems to repel hard burned powder deposits in the tube later on.
PP.
Nothing difficult, though: get the tube off of the rifle, slip a funnel down it and let some hot water run in it. Be careful not to scald yourself.
Rince the piston too.
Once this is done, douse the parts with WD-40 to chase any moisture that hasn't evaporated and push an oiled patch down that tube. Get the patch off, oil that piston, wipe it dry and reassemble the works.
That's about it.
Sometimes, I roll a dab of green lithium grease into the piston grooves; somehow, it seems to repel hard burned powder deposits in the tube later on.
PP.
+1, Good on ya mate! You undoubtedly have very clean firearms!
DSIY.If you really want bubble action use some American Budwiser,that'll do it and if you consume a few then you have enough pressure built up to belch down the muzzle and blow the remaining salt to the next province!;0)
x2 for storage I'll use chainsaw bar oil/lube.....sticks like sh1t to a diaper
Just a quick wipe down before shooting. The bonus of using this type of oil is it won't run out of the barrel or action on to the wood furniture
.30/06 FTW
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Thunder Bay, Ontario
From what I've heard there is just more crud built up and it takes longer to clean. But like I've said, I've only heard it. I've never shot anything other than 1970s stuff and never had any problems with rust or cleaning it at all.
I use the hot water treatment. I boil a old beer mug full of water in the microwave and pour it down the barrel, repeating this two or three times and then clean with break free CLP. I inherited a gallon jug of CLP from a co-worker, two years ago and I still have about 7/8 full jug! I don't think I will ever run out. As for the smaller parts, trigger group, gas tube, bolt and follower etc. I run them through my ultrasonic cleaner for the 480 second cycle and then give them a good brushing with an old tooth brush soaked in CLP. Sometimes I don't clean my rifle until the following day and I have never had a problem with rust.
full of water in the microwave and pour it down the barrel, repeating this two or three times and then clean with break free CLP. I inherited a gallon jug of CLP from a co-worker, two years ago and I still have about 7/8 full jug! I don't think I will ever run out. As for the smaller parts, trigger group, gas tube, bolt and follower etc. I run them through my ultrasonic cleaner for the 480 second cycle and then give them a good brushing with an old tooth brush soaked in CLP. Sometimes I don't clean my rifle until the following day and I have never had a problem with rust.
Clobbersauras
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Waaay out west.
There's no need for that amount of cleaning for an SKS.
Use G96. This stuff....
ht tp://www.g96.com/gun_treatment.html
You won't have a problem with corrosion. I keep a small can in my range bag and spray my guns down at the range. Then clean at my leisure or wait until I get home. I've been using it for almost ten years now, and haven't had a problem since using it.
Use G96. This stuff....
ht tp://www.g96.com/gun_treatment.html
You won't have a problem with corrosion. I keep a small can in my range bag and spray my guns down at the range. Then clean at my leisure or wait until I get home. I've been using it for almost ten years now, and haven't had a problem since using it.
ghostntheshell
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- GTA ONTARIO
If it makes you feel any better, I shot an M44 for years with surplus and never cleaned it properly. Eventually I left it in a gun cabinet for years... Now - keep in mind, I did clean it - but with hoppes and a patch.
Years later I took it out of the safe and it was rusty as crap. I used boiling water first, then scrubbed with brass brushes, plugged the barrel and filled it with hoppes foam bore cleaner, left it over night. Scrubbed it down again, patch after patch. Then did butches bore brite (spelling?).
It shoots great still! The barrel is now dark - but the rifling is fine, and It shoots just fine.
Bottom line - clean it, and it'll be fine.
Years later I took it out of the safe and it was rusty as crap. I used boiling water first, then scrubbed with brass brushes, plugged the barrel and filled it with hoppes foam bore cleaner, left it over night. Scrubbed it down again, patch after patch. Then did butches bore brite (spelling?).
It shoots great still! The barrel is now dark - but the rifling is fine, and It shoots just fine.
Bottom line - clean it, and it'll be fine.
LordEvilPepper
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Under a rusty barge in BC
I shot my good old SKS and forgot about it for 3 weeks, I only put 10 rounds through it but jeeze did it rust.
CLP and a bore brush did almost nothing, firing a couple more rounds through did more to dislodge some rust. I was getting pretty dicouraged whena look over at my work bench gave me an idea.
Mothers metal polish. 5 minutes with a soft bore brush and then hot water and a swab out... nice and clean.
CLP and a bore brush did almost nothing, firing a couple more rounds through did more to dislodge some rust. I was getting pretty dicouraged whena look over at my work bench gave me an idea.
Mothers metal polish. 5 minutes with a soft bore brush and then hot water and a swab out... nice and clean.
