Does a milsurp ever stop oozing cosmoline?
- Thread starter Jay
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leebuilder
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On the fence.
Not all milsurps have cosmolene on them.
Also, I would suggest to you that most people claiming their milsurps ooze cosmolene are actually just seeing unpolymerized oils oozing out on hot days.
Generally, a long service life wood stock will be saturated in oils, such as linseed, tung, etc. Depending on country and maintenance practices.
Even BLO stocks were originally boiled in raw linseed oil that never totally dries. On a warm day, oils leech to the surface.
Cosmolene, as a grease, doesn't penetrate very well.
Also, I would suggest to you that most people claiming their milsurps ooze cosmolene are actually just seeing unpolymerized oils oozing out on hot days.
Generally, a long service life wood stock will be saturated in oils, such as linseed, tung, etc. Depending on country and maintenance practices.
Even BLO stocks were originally boiled in raw linseed oil that never totally dries. On a warm day, oils leech to the surface.
Cosmolene, as a grease, doesn't penetrate very well.
My #4 shooter oozes on a hot day. It is BLO, not cosmolene.
Put rifle in a black garbage bag with kitty litter on a hot sunny day. Let it bake in the sun. This will get a lot of the excess BLO out.
Put rifle in a black garbage bag with kitty litter on a hot sunny day. Let it bake in the sun. This will get a lot of the excess BLO out.
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when I re-do stocks on milsurps,..I bake the stock in an old oven I have in the shop. Ya gotta see the yellow cream that oozes out ! I have had to do some stocks 5 times before the dripping stopped. The Laminated have very little in them I found.
Buddy of mine did the same thing with his mosin. Temperature was around 40C. Stock got twisted to the point that barrel could't go in. Had to submerge stock in the oil for a week. Build a simple jig to twist it back and let it sit in the jig for a month in the garden shed last summer. Problem solved, but it gets oily after few shots. I wonder why
You bastard. What are you, a gun hating liberal?
I have an sks sitting by the fireplace sweating away right now. Smells Russian in here.
Take it to car wash and blast it with boiling hot pressure water, easiest and cleanest way I have ever come across of dealing with this.
Just be aware that afterwards you have to detail strip and completely oil everything, it takes everything out of rifle including the linseed oil and don’t blast the wood stock from close range with nozzle.....not good trust me on that.
Just be aware that afterwards you have to detail strip and completely oil everything, it takes everything out of rifle including the linseed oil and don’t blast the wood stock from close range with nozzle.....not good trust me on that.
LMAO, did this make me chuckle!
No... No I don't recommend this treatment... LOL
Newbies should use the search function & read that treasure of a thread, poor M14 got that 'treatment'... LOL
