I agree with you about a lot of steam...I don't mean to put the entire stock in a steam box, but those small steamers that they sell for about 50 bucks has a wand handle and only shoots a small stream of steam at low preasure. When doing woodworking I have used steam ( wet rag with the wife's steam ...

I was wondering if anyone has tried steam to clean the cosmo off of wood stocks? Those small steamers look like they would work great at cleaning the grease out of metal as well at the wood. Would raise the grain a little but that would lift up dings and dents then sand down nicely. Just a thought D...