So I was thinking if you left cosmoline in the hard to get at areas it would prevent corrosion especially if you lived on the coast. But just clean the area you touch and the inside the breach and firing pin area. Sure it smells a little funny but it's the best protectant ever made. Look how well these rifles are presurved.
Leaving cosmoline on in hard to get at areas.
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Wouldn't it melt with use and permeate into the wood more than desired ? I ask this because I have a m38 swede and found it still under the hand guard and around the barrel (it was a bear to take apart ) in one way I thought it was good (showing it hadn't been shot much?) on the flip side if I use it now will it melt and soften the wood ? Mine is still in yellow/brown grease form and hasn't turned black yet , if it stayed like this I wouldn't mind it staying there .
Take off the grease, all of it. When you start shooting and the rifle heats up the cosmo will ooze onto everything.
A hair dryer or heat gun on low heat will loosen it up to help get it off.
If I have a really greasy gun I will wrap it in newspaper or papertowel and sit it in front of teh fireplace for the evening. In the summertime I will wrap it tight in newspaper and a black garbage bag and put it on the hot sunny dash of an old truck for a few days. The grease needs to come out slowly.
A hair dryer or heat gun on low heat will loosen it up to help get it off.
If I have a really greasy gun I will wrap it in newspaper or papertowel and sit it in front of teh fireplace for the evening. In the summertime I will wrap it tight in newspaper and a black garbage bag and put it on the hot sunny dash of an old truck for a few days. The grease needs to come out slowly.
Don't do that. If you want somthing to preserve it use Mobile 1 synthetic oil. I would be surprised if in one year is not as oily as the day you stored in.
Its not sticky and it will never evaporate.
Best thing is if you change your own oil you can store extra in empty wine or liquor bottles and have a life time supply of oil.
Break cleaner, water, balistol, and mobile 1 is all you even need for surplus.
Its not sticky and it will never evaporate.
Best thing is if you change your own oil you can store extra in empty wine or liquor bottles and have a life time supply of oil.
Break cleaner, water, balistol, and mobile 1 is all you even need for surplus.
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Soaking in diesel, gas, or varsol and alternating turns with an air compressor works wonders for sks bolts. If it goes tick a tick a tick when you shake it, that firing pin is loose.
Cosmo is great for long term storage in the right conditions, as in not moving or shooting the rifle, once you move it around the dried up stuff in the corners and crannies may dry up and or crack, moisture gets back there and you could easily get rust without even seeing it! Clean all that crap off and reapply one of the suggestions above, even eds red with lanolin added, and strip your rifle once in a while to check for corrosion, cant do that with dark crappy Cosmo on it!
