Suspect my New/er sks has cosmoline laying in it (in the woodstock).

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The iron bits are clean from cleaning them off with multiple cleaners including WD40 and gun cleaner so im not worried about that(i should have put them in boiling water).

The stock has been wiped down ect but i have this feeling that the wood has a lot of remaining cosmoline inside of the wood or layered on the stock.

whats the best way to remove this?

I don't want to mess up the finish (if it has one).
 
I have yet to have any ooze out while shooting and my sks gets plenty hot, it does start to smell like cosmoline though and my 52tula was slathered in the stuff when I bought it.
 
I boiled all the mag strips / tools/cleaning supply's and the pouches in a vat of boiling water while de cosmolining another rifle.

those had some nasty stuff on them.

this sks for the most part is clean now but the stock is still super dark and assume that is cosmoline dried there.
 
wd 40 cleaned a bit off definitely but does seem more may be in the wood.
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I left the stock on mine laying out (on an old towel) in the sun on a hot summer day to sweat the Cosmo out...seemed to work. Wiped it down and turned it over every half hour. In about two hours it wasn't sweating noticeably anymore and it doesn't feel/smell like cosmoline anymore. I know other guys who have baked the stock in an oven at really low temps (like 175-200) for short periods at a time and they swear by it. My wife would kill me in my sleep if I got Cosmo all over her ovens can't speak to it personally.
 
You can place the stock in a garbage bag, then put it in a hot car in the summer, that will allow it to ooze the cosmo out. On mine i just worry about the metal being clean of cosmo and wipe the stock down with a rag.
 
From what I gather a lot of the darker spots on the artic birch you will see are the natural tones of the wood grain and not cosmoline, or so it would seem from a few refinishing threads. That might just be patina/shellac and natural wood grain, not cosmoline. I'd take it out and shoot it, let it heat up and see if it starts to sweat cosmoline.
 
The Tiger striping is natural from the arctic birch being sawn a certain direction to the grain. There may be cosmoline but the best way is to sweat it out. Not too hot or the finish will discolor or flake. Wrap it in paper towels, put in a dark garbage bag and put on your dash during a long drive with the heat cranked will get a lot of it out.
 
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