A couple days ago I decided to go at the rust on the barrel. I used a stainless toothbrush and some eds red and removed quite a bit of brown goo. Some of the rust was raised above the metal, and required a little bit of filing with a needly file. Shoeshine style polished with 220 and 400 grit sandpaper smoothed a good lot of the pitting out and removed all fo the active rust that the brush just wasn't getting. I heated her up with the heat gun and slapped on some cold blue, and to be honest it didn't come out too bad. It has a kind of green tinge to it that is a close approximation of what was there to begin with.
I was going to buy one of the Yugo stocks from trade ex as well as a bunch of other parts as well, but I found an excellent deal on a complete trigger guard assemble. I managed to get a milled trigger guard, floorplate, catch assembly, magazine follower, spring, screws, capture screws for $37 US. I was still on track to order a safety, cleaning rod, stock set and sling. There is little coating left on all f the small parts so I was going to give them a wet glass bead blast and treat them with a black phosphate finish. If the trigger guard parts have decent bluing I may just qive them a quick polish and re blue.
However, I found an Israeli stock and hardware set at the gun show yesterday for $65 and couldn't say no. It was missing the nut on the recoil lug and I asked the guy if I could take the one off of a second sporterized one, and he said to take them both.
Went to my neighbourhood friendly CT store and picked up a couple things.
Disassembled pretty easily. I couldn't get the nut off of the sporter stock, and couldn't remove the bayonet lug off of the full stock, but whatever. I'll figure that out later.
For now I had my assistant help me get it wrapped up to sweat for a bit.
Let it sit for the afternoon out in the sun. It was nice out, but still not hot enough to really do what I was trying for, although it did soften considerably and liquid was dripping off of it when I took it out of the bag. I got some boiling water ready and sprayed it down with simple green, and gave it a quick scrub with the scotch brite pad once it turned a gross milky brown colour. Went at all the little crevasses with a toothbrush. Then, rinsed with boiling water, sprayed with more simple green, let er soak, and scrubbed it down again. Didn't do anu ironing. That's for next time. I'm going to do a couple more scrubs probably tomorrow evening, and i'll steam it then.
The pic doesn't really show, but I'm seeing a yellow/brown laminate with red glue. The handguard is solid wood with a red colour to it.
