VG+ bore but a VB- stock with cosmo

[speared um]

waiting for a 98/22 to find it's way home after 10 days in PPoKa. The bore is impressive shiney bore with out a counter bore), but the stock has 'stock' in cosmoline futures <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :hat --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/pimp.gif ALT=":hat">;


Are there any replacement stocks, as this wood is not matching to any living thing. Can I soak it in Mineral Spirits to rid the cosmo, or will that only remove the surface grease!





Dante'


long live a little dab will do ya buryl ;)

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Dante- I have had several rifles like yours. I wanted to put on rubber gloves just to pick them up. What I use is a degreaser called Carbo-Sol that I get at the local True Value Hardware store. It works really good and it is (to me) the best degreaser since the trichlorethylene (can pronounce it, but can't spell it) went away. It evaporates real fast, so you have to work in fast forward mode. I take shop rags and drench the whole kit and kaboodle in the Carbo-Sol and start wiping away. Then I set the rifle sit for an hour and repeat the process again. I have had to do this as many as five times over a period of several days on a couple rifles. When you are finished, you won't believe the difference!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :b --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b">;


The stock will now be as free of the cosmoline as it ever will get and now is the time to apply either boiled linseed oil or my favorite, Tung Oil finish.


I have done this with the entire rifle on occasion, but usually dismount the rifled action from the stock, as it allows you to get the crud off the inside of the stock and along the bottom of the barrel. One thing to be careful of is the fact that now the metal is also degreased and it should be wiped down and lightly oiled as soon as possible to prevent it from rusting. I failed to do that last step once, and more damage was done in one week than what had been done in over half a century from rust.


Moral of the story is to not give up too easily. I am not an expert, by any means, but I have made some pretty dirty stocks look pretty presentable.


Curt




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[speared um]

Thanx, Curt... I have tried Purple Power, but I did not wash it off with water, but I wiped it of with heavy-duty paper 'shop towels'. Then, I used Windex to counter the effects of the PP.


I will try Carbo-Sol because I don't like mixing H2O with wood.


Did you ever try baking the stock in your car?





Dante'


long live consintrated water buryl ;)

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[m1 talker]

Does not have that many hot days here where I live. And that takes too much time. I have heard of others doing it, but not around here. I agree with you and the dislike of mixing stocks with water. I use water, but sparingly and it has to be boiling water so it evaporates quickly so the wood does not warp.


Curt

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[speared um]

I got my greasy 98/22 and remover the stock. I'll get some Carbo- Sol at True Value tomorrow and let you know how it works.





Thanx Dante'


long live grease-buster Buryl ;)

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Dante- does your handguard match the color of the stock? For some reason unknown to me, it seems that a lot of 98/22's have mis-matched handguards. Three of mine have lighter colored handguards, so I would assume that some sort of general handguard replacement program must have been going on sometime in the past with these rifles. Just take your time and be prepared to spend a lot of effort cleaning up some of these rifles. I have done many, and quite often it takes a week or two of messing with them a couple hours a day to get them to look decent.


Curt

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[speared um]

Thanx, Curt... yes it does... thay are a cosmo-stained nice looking Walnut. It has the less that the normal dings and dents, and is a very solid stock; I hope it has some tiger-striping when cleaned.





I'll take my time, as I did with my CZ 24 with a cosmo-stained stock.





Dante'


long live tiger striped Buryl ;)

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[speared um]

I put the 98/22 and a MN M39 stock in a LARGE plastic bag with ~20 lbs of Oil-dri in my trunk. I'm going to visit in Upstats NY, so I'll leave them in my car 'till my return in Sept.





I need to figure how to clean off the dust without any H2O, and how to finish restoreing the stocks to origional condition.





I'll start with the 98/22 because it's saturated with cosmo, and the M39 has that 'black grease' and a Finn wartime stock that is more valuble.





Dante'


long live dust-off Buryl ;)

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Why don't you want to use water? I wash the hell out of mine with lots of detergent and extremely hot water. I don't know how your going to do it without getting them wet.

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[speared um]

I wonder if the dry-cleaner will take um?





Dante'


long live thanx gracey Buryl ;)

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