How deep the Cosmo seeps

Curently engaged in battle with a battered cosmoline soaked IDF Mauser stock. On round 5 of heating, degreasing, mineral spirits, drying and repeat.
Fack it just keeps coming :( Starting to think this thing is actually just hardened cosmoline carved into a stock shape lol
The battle continues....
 
Butcherbill said:
Have you ever thrown a railway tie on a bonfire, it will blaze all night!
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While on a Moose hunting trip north of McBride BC half a dozen years ago I saw some smoke along the Fraser River. I followed the RR tracks about a klik and came across a RR crew that had been replacing cracked and broken ties. The fire was on a huge open gravel patch and had been used previously for a similar purpose. The thing was, the fire managed to get away from them and set the track bed on fire. If you've ever been along those tracks, they were at that time anyway soaked in oil/grease, etc off the undersides of the trains. This stuff coated everything, including the gravel used in the track bed down for at least a foot. It took them two days, a back hoe and about twenty more firefighters to put out that fire. They had to dig up the track at both ends of the fire to stop it from spreading any further along it. Then they had to replace all of the ballast and subgrade material over the klik or so that burned. All of the firefighters had to wear air pacs and full masks. They also had to have heavy/hot scrubdown showers when they changed shifts. All in all quite an ordeal. Burning rail lines and sleepers are very dangerous. Even burning old sleepers needs to be done with care.
 
I had an SKS stock in a garbage bag most of the summer trying to remove the cosmoline, it just kept seeping out. After a couple months I went ahead and painted the stock when I thought I had removed most of it. Over a few months the cosmoline still seeped out through the painted stock.
 
Embrace the Cosmo, get most of it off then polish the stock to a nice high Cosmo shine, your great grandchildren will be shooting your sks and the stock will look the same!
 
I kept my SKS in a gun locker heated by a lowly 15 watt light bulb... after 5 years (lol) that SKS was as dry as a bone. For the record, the best way to de-cosmo a stock is a few summer range days. Just don't forget to bring a towel! My 2008 IZH import SKS came to me 'as is' and was cosmo free (!) with only the metal parts receiving a bit of oil or grease. That one was a pleasure to clean.
 
The Kurgan said:
For the record, the best way to de-cosmo a stock is a few summer range days. Just don't forget to bring a towel!
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I could NOT help but read that in a South Park Towely voice!

This is true though, heat is your best friend. Black garbage bag on a hot summer day, just keep wiping it off and at the end of a couple says some mineral spirits to rinse out any surface stuff left.
 
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