phantomak47
Member
The age old question arises here often, how do I get all of the cosmoline off my recently purchased C&R rifle? While getting cosmoline off the barrel and receiver is easily done with mineral spirits or the typical gun cleaner, the stock is a different animal. I have done several rifles including getting the purplish colored paint that was standard on all SAR-1s and an SKS that was dipped and left in a vat of cosmoline for eternity. I tried all of the standard approached, but I found that Citristrip product at Lowes completely and easily removed all of the cosmoline from my SKS and took off the paint off my old SAR1.
After applied two coats of citristrip on my stock and then gently washing it off each time with water and promptly drying the stock, there was zero cosmoline bleed out. I left it for a month in my hot garage and still there was not any bleed out. I did the standard tung oil finish and I was very pleased with the outcome of using this product, no harsh fumes, but most importantly it just worked. Heres the link.
http://www.citristrip.com/
After applied two coats of citristrip on my stock and then gently washing it off each time with water and promptly drying the stock, there was zero cosmoline bleed out. I left it for a month in my hot garage and still there was not any bleed out. I did the standard tung oil finish and I was very pleased with the outcome of using this product, no harsh fumes, but most importantly it just worked. Heres the link.
http://www.citristrip.com/