Anyone have any suggestions on the removal of cosmoline from my newly
acquired Mosin-Nagant?
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John there's lots of step-by-step vids of disassembly, cleaning and inspection of the M-N on youtube. A bunch of em.

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:47:48 -0800 (PST), Tim
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John there's lots of step-by-step vids of disassembly, cleaning and inspection of the M-N on youtube. A bunch of em.

Super idea! Thanks, Tim.

On 11/17/2014 12:39 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions on the removal of cosmoline from my newly
acquired Mosin-Nagant?
--

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument
with a liberal."

...Peter Brimelow (Author)
(Thanks, Luddite!)


https://www.google.com/#q=removal+of+cosmoline+from+my+newly+acquired+Mos in-Nagant

Seems to be a couple vids on it above.

On 11/17/14 12:47 PM, Tim wrote:
John there's lots of step-by-step vids of disassembly, cleaning and inspection of the M-N on youtube. A bunch of em.

That rifle interested me a little until a friend got one of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGFPbXqBPOA

The Swedish Gustav Mauser is a really sweet shooter.

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Poco Loco wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions on the removal of cosmoline from my newly
acquired Mosin-Nagant?
--

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument
with a liberal."

...Peter Brimelow (Author)
(Thanks, Luddite!)

Which ever way, will be messy. Best I ever saw, was in the Air Force, when
we cleaned m16 after the range. Would have worked for cosmoline also.
Big tanks of solvent. You could put the whole weapon in and scrub it.

Swede Mauser is a great rifle but if you really want something that nobody else seems to have, go for a Schmidt-Rubin 'straight pull'

I love mine!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sj3a62x-DFA

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:13:29 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:39:00 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

Anyone have any suggestions on the removal of cosmoline from my newly
acquired Mosin-Nagant?

You can cut it with paint or lacquer thinner but most of the removal
is mechanical.
If you use a solvent, you need to get a protecting coat of oil back on
it right away.
We had to bring a couple of 1911s back from this mummification on the
ship. We detail stripped them, wiped off all we could and dunked the
metal parts in a bucket of thinner over night. They came out like
new.
One of the GM3s stripped the grease off a set of the walnut stocks and
refinished them with linseed oil. They came out pretty nice.


A four foot chunk of pvc capped at one end and filled with mineral
spirits might do the job.

Now I just can't wait to get to Wal Mart to buy a gallon of mineral
spirits.

Here's my 6.5x55 Swede. Well this one 'isnt' mine but I have one just like it...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VmvI_YYSrlk

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:11:17 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

Poco Loco wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions on the removal of cosmoline from my newly
acquired Mosin-Nagant?
--

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument
with a liberal."

...Peter Brimelow (Author)
(Thanks, Luddite!)

Which ever way, will be messy. Best I ever saw, was in the Air Force, when
we cleaned m16 after the range. Would have worked for cosmoline also.
Big tanks of solvent. You could put the whole weapon in and scrub it.

Damn! I sure wish I were young enough to join the Air Force!