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After shooting some corrosive ammo with my sks I put some part for boiling. In those parts were my bolt carrier and when it was dry I notice that my bolt carrier is now marked. It it cover with pale brown stains. So I was wondering what I could do to remove those stains. I try with solvant but it didn't work.

Thank you all.
 
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Boiling water is for eggs, tea and Enfields.....if you boil red rifles, cabbage oozes from the pores in the metal staining it. The only solution to this sort of staining is to return the rifle to the Tula armory where they have (in cans) the tears of fascists/ capitalist pigs. They apply the tears to a buffing wheel (spun @ precisely 5432rpm) and the "brown spots" disappear. :p
 
was the water dirty after boiling? May be crud from inside the parts that was left on the surface? Try boiling it again with clean water, other than that I'm stumped.
 
40-5 said:
After shooting some corrosive ammo with my sks I put some part for boiling. In those parts were my bolt receiver and when it was dry I notice that my bolt carrier is now marked. It it cover with pale brown stains. So I was wondering what I could do to remove those stains. I try with solvant but it didn't work.

Thank you all.
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That's called rust!
 
Why boiling anyway? My Tula SKS has seen some 1500 rds. ONLY the corrosive ammo...Wipe it clean with an old t-shirt and WD40,spray some WD 40 after (It drys or dissapears otherwise after a week),never had a problem with rust or anything...they are built for that.Plus:'till 1948 ALL ammo was corrosive and look how many rifles survived in good condition! The only corrosive thing in the so called ammo is the primer and its sooo corrosive that a spent steel case of the czechoslovakian ammo I shoot takes about a week to show rust.
For your stained shiney parts: The only thing I know that helps is buffing them with a very fine oiled steelwool or nevrdull or similar ;)

CG
 
Coachgun67 said:
Why boiling anyway? My Tula SKS has seen some 1500 rds. ONLY the corrosive ammo...Wipe it clean with an old t-shirt and WD40,spray some WD 40 after (It drys or dissapears otherwise after a week),never had a problem with rust or anything...they are built for that.Plus:'till 1948 ALL ammo was corrosive and look how many rifles survived in good condition! The only corrosive thing in the so called ammo is the primer and its sooo corrosive that a spent steel case of the czechoslovakian ammo I shoot takes about a week to show rust.
For your stained shiney parts: The only thing I know that helps is buffing them with a very fine oiled steelwool or nevrdull or similar ;)

CG
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note to self: do not buy a used sks from coachgun67...
 
no offense but i seriosly dont get why people do thet. almost all i shoot are corrosive surplus ammo and ALL i do is use a wire bore cleaner with a bit of nitro solvent through the barrel, and the just oil on patches though the barrel and gas tube, then i just simple whipe the bolt and stuff down with a rag with gun oil. my gun has over 3000 corosive rounds through it and its still in 100% perfect condition, and i personly would never even think of putting it in water.
 
m-134 said:
no offense but i seriosly dont get why people do thet. almost all i shoot are corrosive surplus ammo and ALL i do is use a wire bore cleaner with a bit of nitro solvent through the barrel, and the just oil on patches though the barrel and gas tube, then i just simple whipe the bolt and stuff down with a rag with gun oil. my gun has over 3000 corosive rounds through it and its still in 100% perfect condition, and i personly would never even think of putting it in water.
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Yup,ALL said! I agree 100%
 
Hoppes 9 was developed in 1903, when EVERYTHING was corrosive. Clean your SKS with it like you would any other rifle shooting any ammo, then wipe it down with CLP. Done.
 
tears??

plinker 777 said:
Boiling water is for eggs, tea and Enfields.....if you boil red rifles, cabbage oozes from the pores in the metal staining it. The only solution to this sort of staining is to return the rifle to the Tula armory where they have (in cans) the tears of fascists/ capitalist pigs. They apply the tears to a buffing wheel (spun @ precisely 5432rpm) and the "brown spots" disappear. :p
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what are you smoking?? please share.
 
Why is everyone saying boiling water isnt good? Some many people told me to clean the cosmoline with boiling water...dang it...I wiped everything dry and srayed Remoil everywhere...is my SKS doomed now?
 
m-134 said:
no offense but i seriosly dont get why people do thet. almost all i shoot are corrosive surplus ammo and ALL i do is use a wire bore cleaner with a bit of nitro solvent through the barrel, and the just oil on patches though the barrel and gas tube, then i just simple whipe the bolt and stuff down with a rag with gun oil. my gun has over 3000 corosive rounds through it and its still in 100% perfect condition, and i personly would never even think of putting it in water.
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That's the way I used to clean after shooting corrosive (that includes using Hopps 9). The next day I would inspect the rifles, and there would be brown fur (rust) growing inside the barrel. Then I would scrub it down again. Again the next day, more brown fur.

It would take me an hour to clean each rifle each time. After the third cleaning, it seemed to take, but a week later, more brown fur.

That cycle stopped after I started using the boiling water down the bore trick after range sessions. One scrub with the brush, two or three patches down the bore, then one oily patch pushed through. No more furry barrels. Now I spend 15 minutes cleaning instead of an hour.

Since I have the bolt out at the time, I pour the water over the bolt head and the gas piston while I'm at it.

Pouring the hot water is enough, OP, no reason to "cook" your rifle.
 
mkrainc said:
That's the way I used to clean after shooting corrosive (that includes using Hopps 9). The next day I would inspect the rifles, and there would be brown fur (rust) growing inside the barrel. Then I would scrub it down again. Again the next day, more brown fur.

It would take me an hour to clean each rifle each time. After the third cleaning, it seemed to take, but a week later, more brown fur.

That cycle stopped after I started using the boiling water down the bore trick after range sessions. One scrub with the brush, two or three patches down the bore, then one oily patch pushed through. No more furry barrels. Now I spend 15 minutes cleaning instead of an hour.

Since I have the bolt out at the time, I pour the water over the bolt head and the gas piston while I'm at it.

Pouring the hot water is enough, OP, no reason to "cook" your rifle.
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This has been my experience. I think rusting depends a lot on climate. I keep a dehumidifier in my gun locker at all times now.
 
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Not sure what's with the boiling water hate.

I do it all the time.

No rust on my SKS's or my latest mosins.

I did* rust out a Hungarian M44 by not cleaning after corrosive properly (read: barely cleaned at all, didn't know what corrosive ammo was).

That being said, a good day of cleaning and bore brite and it's in decent condition now.
 
I use boiling water every time i shoot corrosive... pour it right down the barrel then follow by Oil and my Rifles are in excellent condition.
 
I tried the boiling water trick, poured it down the barrel and gas tube and found I had more rust than ever after scrubbing, oiling and putting away, maybe I did it wrong(but I don't think that's really possible). What I found to work best was Windex. But I am just using Hoppes No. 9 and elbow grease now it it works fine.
 
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