COSMOLINE!!!! super thick on my SKS--help!

[Prometheus]

I got my Yugo 59/66 yesterday... WOW is she pretty!

However, the cosmoline is thicker than I have ever seen... It's like glue almost... can't even pull the bolt back more than 1/4 of an inch...

So... how do I get it off?

With my SAR's I would just use a bunch of paper towels w/ oil and bore cleaner and patches...

I don't think thats gonna do jack with this SKS...

The FFL said he used kerosene to clean his, "just pour it over it..." ?

[Bigfoot]

I've had good luck with boiling water. Just pour it over everything. Much safer than using solvants. Bigfoot

[CAMPYBOB]

your dealer is correct. kerosine, used outdoors, is fairly safe...cuts the cosmo and leaves a protective film. grab some rags, an old toothbrush, a 1" paintbrush and a bucket.

[Isaac]

Ditto.

Kerosene is your cosmo-friend.

[JohnKSa]

I think someone posted about using a heat lamp and setting the gun on newspaper to soak up what runs out of it.

Just check it frequently to make sure you're not ruining the stock.

[Prometheus]

Thanks guys!

I'm going to got out and buy some kero tomorrow...

I used about 12 paper towels tonight to wipe down the wood... wow, it's got some pretty furniture for an old yugo...

No ones mentioned it, but just to be safe... will it hurt the wood (the kero) and /or leave a nasty smell on it?

[LongRod]

Originally posted by Prometheus:
Thanks guys!

I'm going to got out and buy some kero tomorrow...

I used about 12 paper towels tonight to wipe down the wood... wow, it's got some pretty furniture for an old yugo...

No ones mentioned it, but just to be safe... will it hurt the wood (the kero) and /or leave a nasty smell on it?

No, kerosene will not hurt your gun. Any that soaks into the wood will eventually evaporate. Follow Campy's advice. If the smell bothers you, buy descented kerosene (a/k/a charcoal lighter fluid).

[CAMPYBOB]

i don't use much kero on the wood. i just sacrifice old towels.

when clean, soak a rag in boiled linseed oil and soak that teak wood down. give it two or three soaking rubdowns with the linseed oil. allow to dry for a week prior to installing the action in the wood.

[Rule 303]

Hot water and Castor Oil Degreaser one the metal.
Kerosene to take any left grease off and then apply your favorite metal rust proventive.

On the stocks I sometime use kerosene and wipe it off real good and a the heat it up with a hair dryer and the cosmolene pours out of the pours in the wood or I boil the stocks in a vat I have for that purpose. Then rub in a little linseed oil or tounge oil into the stock. I don't reinstall the metal for a week or so, to let things dry out.

Works for me.

Rule 303

[ 15. January 2004, 12:46: Message edited by: Rule 303 ]

[govteach]

Yes, Kerosene or I found WD-40 works pretty darn good....

[drj3828]

I used a pressure washer on my yugo 48 and other mil surplus rifles. The car wash works also even though you will get some strang looks while being there. I wash them after spraying them down with Castrol Super Clean then when through I soak all metal parts with WD-40 until I can get to my Varsol parts washer and finish the cleaning process there.
DRJ

[Isaac]

LMAO at drj hanging up his guns at the spraywash stall.

That's good humour.

[Prometheus]

Thanks for all the help guys... Took 5 hours total, but what a beauty she is!

Wood isn't a good as I had orignally thought, but the rifle is unfired... Perfect barrel internals ect. I'm going to reassemble it tomorrow and shoot it on saturday (weather permitting)...

Items I used:

Walmart Items-
60cc turkey baster $0.87
2 gallon gas can $2.96
Rubbermaid 16 gallon container $2.86 (very shallow, cheaper and bigger than an alluminum baking pan)
Kerosene Lantern $4.86 (nothing to do with cleaning the gun, but I always wanted one)

Kerosene 2 gallons $3.30 (only used 1/3 of a gallon)

Items I had:
2 rolls of paper towels (bounty)
15 gun patches
1 old tooth brush
Cleaning rod & patch holder
1 newspaper
1 pin punch
1 pack of marlboro's and lighter
1 500 watt shop light
1 propane heater (garage is cold this time of year)
1 box of latex medical gloves (powder free of course!)

One NIB yougo 59/66 SKS, clean as a whistel doing the job yourself, properly and not blowing yourself up in the process.... PRICELESS!!!!!

FWIW, I leaned the trigger assembly and recoil spring against the metal guard on the shop light and voila... all the cosmoline ran right off, thanks JohnKSA

edit to add:

I used about half a box of medical gloves (get 'um free from work)... what a hand-saver they are!

[ 15. January 2004, 23:40: Message edited by: Prometheus ]

[Isaac]

The gracious thing to do at this juncture is

POST A PIC !!!

[Prometheus]

Originally posted by Isaac:
The gracious thing to do at this juncture is

POST A PIC !!!

I'm going to get some new batteries for my digital camera and I'll post them pronto...

Pics pics... hehehe