Take it apart completely and seperate metal from wood.
Metal parts, use a solvent like carb cleaner in a spray can. You can buy cheap carb cleaner at WalMart or an auto parts store. I get two cans per rifle. Use lots of rags and soak and wipe.
For the wood, I prefer to warm the oil out. I have used oven cleaner and water, but on some rifles it does raise the wood grain.
Here is the definitive article on Cosmo removal, per Surplusrifle.com
2007-03-05 13:19:59
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answered by DJ 7
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Lots of different ways. Avoid water because it swells wood. Try carburator cleaner.
The last time I cleaned off cosmoline I left the stock on some black plastic on the dashboard of my old truck for about a week in the summer heat. Wipe it down twice a day. Sweating it out is the best way. Lots of guns sites can give you more examples.
Miketyson26
2007-03-05 11:03:15
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answered by miketyson26 5
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Get a bag of rags. You're going to need them. Wipe off as much as you can and soak parts in mineral spirits. Use a stiff brush like an auto parts cleaning brush. A can or 2 or 3 of automotive BrakeKleen helps a bunch in getting into places you can't. Wood stocks should be soaked for a while in min spirits or paint thinner, sometimes several times to get most of it out of the wood. Don't use water base cleaners and don't smoke near the fluids..
Have fun! Cosmolene is for preservation, not lubrication. So after you get it nice and clean, clean the major parts like you would any gun after use and oil with gun oil. WD-40 and silicone spray are big no-nos.
2007-03-05 11:05:29
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answered by Anonymous
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I have taken it off with Simple Green cleaner. This is not the same as 409 like some people may think. I used to sell it to schools to clean small engines up in their industrial ed classes. It is also a safer product than some of the solvents that might be suggested.
2007-03-05 15:55:25
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answered by MincoRep 2
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Wd40 works wonders, wipe after the wd40 set for a few mintues. I have readed that lemmon juice works but never use it . Oven cleaner but will to reoil the stock . A vicks humidifier becareful not to burn youself ,will work with metal parts. The Sun on a hot day will lose up the cosmoline.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu33.htm
http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting/cosmoline/pdf/cosmoline.pdf
2007-03-05 17:08:09
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answered by Anonymous
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LOTS of elbow grease......
Took forever to remove it all from my Yugo SKS.
Break cleaner worked well on some parts, boiling water on others (wouldn't recommend that on the wood). Gun Scrubber (or its equivalent was pretty good). Lighter fluid worked GREAT on the firing pin. Hoppe's powder solvent worked great in the barrel.
Kerosene was recommended, but I haven't tried it. I also heard that gasoline works well. Both I would recommend outdoors away from open flames.
2007-03-05 11:33:05
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answered by free_eagle716 4
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Mineral spirits work too, eats the stuff right off. Can buy it at a hardware store
2007-03-05 14:34:53
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answered by marlin81087 2
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As I recall, at Parris Island, a lot of elbow grease with a soft cloth?
2007-03-05 10:35:49
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answered by wtr2391 2
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Charcoal lighter is one of the best all-around solvents. I have used it for decades.
2007-03-06 03:49:11
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answered by RANDLE W 4
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