keep_clear
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Ontario
Remington Action Cleaner does an amazing job of cleaning cosmo from all the nooks and crannies, and then G96 gun treatment.
I'm an idiot. Don't use Methyl Hydrate as a solvent.
- Thread starter ADHDCanuck
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You are in Edmonton in winter, the humidity is damned near nonexistent at this time of year. The bare metal will do nothing if you simply give it a wipe with an oily rag to leave a film behind. The corrosive ammo won't do anything if you clean it properly when you are done shooting. If you lived on one of the coasts or in Ontario the humidity would be an issue but it won't be in Edmonton.
Mark
- Location
- Edmonton Alberta, Canada
seriously magic. the second the parts hit the fluid.. the fluid went a lovely purpley blue.... after soaking for several more seconds, bare metal was clearly visible and with a wipe the blueing was 100% removed.
- Location
- Edmonton Alberta, Canada
my friend who does it swears he cleans all his milsurp weapons with methyl hydrate and so does his wife and son.. over a dozen examples.. lovely black shiny mags including his SKS's and SVTs....
i have no explanation for this.
i have no explanation for this.
I clean shellac off my soviet arms with methyl hydrate & it does nothing to bluing. Does it smell like alcohol or acid?
- Location
- Edmonton Alberta, Canada
it has very little smell... definitely some chemical vapours but nothing strong, i was in a small room with it in a 2L plastic container, and wiping the part with it for fifteen minutes to tidy it all up with no ill effects... i'd say a light smell of alcohol or thinner...
Dissolved bluing or dissolved paint on a refurb ? Never heard of MH affecting bluing.
Grizz
Scooter Money
Regular
- Location
- In partibus infidelium.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Methyl Hydrate is one of the weakest and a safe solvent to use as a starting point. If methyl hydrate removed it, chances are, any other solvent (brake cleaner, WD40, acetone) would have taken it off too.
I cleaned my whole collection of 14 SKS's with boiling water and Simple Green. Then protected with G96. Then sweated the cosmoline out of the stocks and put a layer of linseed oil on the wood. I used a new metal garbage can heated with a little space heater and did 2 or 3 stocks at a time. Just wrap in paper towels to soak up the cosmo as it sweats out. Heat for a couple hours and then the linseed. The guns came out beautiful and smell good with the G96. Be careful with the hand guard. Don't get boiling water on it. Just spray the metal with some brake cleaner and wipe. Use the nozzle on the brake cleaner can to keep the spray off the hand guard, and then sweat it with the stocks...
here is a vendor at the gun show that I bought my spare mag from. good price and they had lots of spares.
Rustic Things - Tammy - twhite@telus.net or 780-913-8053
Rustic Things - Tammy - twhite@telus.net or 780-913-8053
Degrease the magazine. ,aybe a slight sanding then paint with a high heat engine paint with silica.
Toast in an oven at say 350 for half an hour. Some paints are matt or low gloss and will give the mag a solvent resistant finish.
Thats what I did to mine to clean up after the crap paint job to cover the frankenpin.
Toast in an oven at say 350 for half an hour. Some paints are matt or low gloss and will give the mag a solvent resistant finish.
Thats what I did to mine to clean up after the crap paint job to cover the frankenpin.
- Location
- Steel Town and The Peg
Some parts of my refurb sks look like they're blued, but I think it's actually a paint or some other type of tough coating, almost like a black parkerizing or something.. I noticed it when it scratched off from a synthetic stock.
