Cleaning Cosmoline from French Tickler
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solidsnake6666
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Thank you for the reply. I have Ballistol. I use it to clean my shotgun and 22. I'll try this. Might give it a boiling hot water bath first. I've read that's effective as well.
I’ve used a heat gun for metal parts and the barreled action nooks and crannies and many rolls of paper towels. When the grease gets warm and goes liquid, it’s not too hard to wipe off. Q tips can get into the small places.
Oh how I miss the days of blocking off an entire Saturday afternoon with a newly arrived milsurp soaked in grease, classic rock on random play and a 4 pack of Old Speckled Hen…
Oh how I miss the days of blocking off an entire Saturday afternoon with a newly arrived milsurp soaked in grease, classic rock on random play and a 4 pack of Old Speckled Hen…
If you do the boiling water thing add a little dish soap. like Dawn ultra. it rips grease off dishes. make sure that you clean out the gas system
really good. too. you don't want any oil or grease in there. collects powder residue . - carbon build up will happen faster. and dry the crap out of it with a hair dryer. don't do it in the kitchen sink either. outside where your neighbor's can't see you or the wash basin and then do a load of laundry after to flush the system out. make sure you don't put grease down your drain . then a light coating of oil on the outside of everything. except the gas pistons.
really good. too. you don't want any oil or grease in there. collects powder residue . - carbon build up will happen faster. and dry the crap out of it with a hair dryer. don't do it in the kitchen sink either. outside where your neighbor's can't see you or the wash basin and then do a load of laundry after to flush the system out. make sure you don't put grease down your drain . then a light coating of oil on the outside of everything. except the gas pistons.
solidsnake6666
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Thank you!
solidsnake6666
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Soo I finally got around to doing this today. I soaked all the parts in boiling hot water and dawn dish soap. I scrubbed all the parts with a tooth brush.I had to repeat this step twice and then rinsed with hot water. For the stock I used a heat gun, but surprisingly there was little to no cosmoline on the stock. Once everything was dry I coated everything in Ballistol and then wiped down. Oiled her up and I was done. It was my first time doing this so took me about 4 hours. I also dissemble and cleaned out the firing pin--it was full of cosmoline and now it"s clean and moves freely. Picture attached of the final result!
