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Yo, John!
I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth
varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. |
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Yo, John!
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:13:37 -0500, Alex wrote:
I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. We had some stuff in an oval OD can we used on the M1s. I think it was boiled linseed oil. They said not to leave the oily rags laying around. |
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Yo, John!
- show quoted text - We had some stuff in an oval OD can we used on the M1s. I think it was boiled linseed oil. They said not to leave the oily rags laying around. .... Yeah, don’t leave a rag in the can. Spontaneous combustion is a bad thing... |
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Yo, John!
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:13:37 -0500, Alex wrote:
I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. We never put anything on the stocks of our M-14s, but maybe the armorer did. Looking around, as I'm sure you have, I came across this: Protecting/Preserving Walnut Stock I recently became the proud owner of an M1A Standard with walnut stock and I of course want to take good care it. Right now it has a dull finish and I would like it a big glossier, but not too much. After hours and hours of using the search button I've seen a wide variety of things people use to protect/preserve the walnut stocks but I figure a poll will be the best way to see which is the most popular. I did send and receive a reply back from Springfield Armory regarding this. Here was their reply. Troy, Thank you for your purchase of our M1A model. We use linseed oil rubbed into the stock here. In the same thread there were several suggestions for tung oil. I'd go with linseed oil. Lightly. Rubbed out after setting for 30 minutes or so. |
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Yo, John!
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:16:52 -0500, John H.
wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:13:37 -0500, Alex wrote: I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. We never put anything on the stocks of our M-14s, but maybe the armorer did. Looking around, as I'm sure you have, I came across this: Protecting/Preserving Walnut Stock I recently became the proud owner of an M1A Standard with walnut stock and I of course want to take good care it. Right now it has a dull finish and I would like it a big glossier, but not too much. After hours and hours of using the search button I've seen a wide variety of things people use to protect/preserve the walnut stocks but I figure a poll will be the best way to see which is the most popular. I did send and receive a reply back from Springfield Armory regarding this. Here was their reply. Troy, Thank you for your purchase of our M1A model. We use linseed oil rubbed into the stock here. In the same thread there were several suggestions for tung oil. I'd go with linseed oil. Lightly. Rubbed out after setting for 30 minutes or so. The only time we did it was after we had a live fire drill on deck and the M1s had salt spray on them. We did a detail strip of the weapon, cleaned all the parts, light wipe with oil and we rubbed the stocks with that linseed oil stuff I was talking about. The chief liked his small arms looking sharp. |
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Yo, John!
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 20:04:08 -0500, Alex wrote:
wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:16:52 -0500, John H. wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:13:37 -0500, Alex wrote: I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. We never put anything on the stocks of our M-14s, but maybe the armorer did. Looking around, as I'm sure you have, I came across this: Protecting/Preserving Walnut Stock I recently became the proud owner of an M1A Standard with walnut stock and I of course want to take good care it. Right now it has a dull finish and I would like it a big glossier, but not too much. After hours and hours of using the search button I've seen a wide variety of things people use to protect/preserve the walnut stocks but I figure a poll will be the best way to see which is the most popular. I did send and receive a reply back from Springfield Armory regarding this. Here was their reply. Troy, Thank you for your purchase of our M1A model. We use linseed oil rubbed into the stock here. In the same thread there were several suggestions for tung oil. I'd go with linseed oil. Lightly. Rubbed out after setting for 30 minutes or so. The only time we did it was after we had a live fire drill on deck and the M1s had salt spray on them. We did a detail strip of the weapon, cleaned all the parts, light wipe with oil and we rubbed the stocks with that linseed oil stuff I was talking about. The chief liked his small arms looking sharp. Did the wood still look good after a few months? This is not a polished stock on a Weatherby, it will just be that dull GI look that only gets polished by guys doing close order drill. |
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Yo, John!
John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:13:37 -0500, Alex wrote: I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. We never put anything on the stocks of our M-14s, but maybe the armorer did. Looking around, as I'm sure you have, I came across this: Protecting/Preserving Walnut Stock I recently became the proud owner of an M1A Standard with walnut stock and I of course want to take good care it. Right now it has a dull finish and I would like it a big glossier, but not too much. After hours and hours of using the search button I've seen a wide variety of things people use to protect/preserve the walnut stocks but I figure a poll will be the best way to see which is the most popular. I did send and receive a reply back from Springfield Armory regarding this. Here was their reply. Troy, Thank you for your purchase of our M1A model. We use linseed oil rubbed into the stock here. In the same thread there were several suggestions for tung oil. I'd go with linseed oil. Lightly. Rubbed out after setting for 30 minutes or so. I did read a lot of posts including the one you quoted here. I also read in a post that linseed oil has to "cure" for 30 days?? Not sure what that's all about. Initially I will take the gun apart and treat the wood with whatever I end up buying. For maintenance applications do you think there could be any harm to the metal with either of these oils? It will be difficult to not have any touch the metal. |
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Yo, John!
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 20:02:48 -0500, Alex wrote:
John H. wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:13:37 -0500, Alex wrote: I brought the M1A home today. The stock is a dry walnut - not a smooth varnish like my shotguns and other rifles. What do you recommend to preserve the wood? Tung oil seems to be popular. I have multiple dehumidifiers in my safes so I don't want it to dry out and crack. We never put anything on the stocks of our M-14s, but maybe the armorer did. Looking around, as I'm sure you have, I came across this: Protecting/Preserving Walnut Stock I recently became the proud owner of an M1A Standard with walnut stock and I of course want to take good care it. Right now it has a dull finish and I would like it a big glossier, but not too much. After hours and hours of using the search button I've seen a wide variety of things people use to protect/preserve the walnut stocks but I figure a poll will be the best way to see which is the most popular. I did send and receive a reply back from Springfield Armory regarding this. Here was their reply. Troy, Thank you for your purchase of our M1A model. We use linseed oil rubbed into the stock here. In the same thread there were several suggestions for tung oil. I'd go with linseed oil. Lightly. Rubbed out after setting for 30 minutes or so. I did read a lot of posts including the one you quoted here. I also read in a post that linseed oil has to "cure" for 30 days?? Not sure what that's all about. Initially I will take the gun apart and treat the wood with whatever I end up buying. For maintenance applications do you think there could be any harm to the metal with either of these oils? It will be difficult to not have any touch the metal. I wouldn't be oiling it more than about once a year, and I'd take it all apart then. No, I don't think a bit of linseed oil will hurt anything, but I'd wipe it off and put a light coat of gun oil on the metal. |
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