There are a few smudges that I can't get off by wiping and I don't think I should use water. Also, do I absolutely have to use oil afterwords or can that wait for a while?
2007-06-12 14:50:57 · 9 answers · asked by Elliot 2 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
You could try a clean cotton rag or a cotton cleaning patch. Once they get saturated they are useless and just push the smudge around instead of absorbing it.
Remington makes a good product called "Shotgun Cleaner" - comes in a big spray can. It takes all the oily residue and everything off. Wipe with a clean rag and the gun looks like it did when it came off the assembly line.
I suppose alcohol would be OK. I did use it once on a gun when I used some bottled liquid 24k gold leaf to dress one up, and alcohol was the suggested means of removing excess leaf. It didn't do anything to the finish.
2007-06-12 15:17:18 · answer #1 · answered by DT89ACE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd just use some WD40 and some four ought steel wool. Spray the WD40 onto some four ought steel wool and rub the smudges off. The four ought steel wool won't hurt your finish. Actually, you don't have to put oil on the surface of the metal on your gun but you do have to put something on it to protect it. I use micro crystalline wax rather than oil on all of my guns. The brand that I use is Renaissance Wax. It is available from most woodworking supply sources such as Woodcraft, Woodworker's Supply
2007-06-12 15:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can. Temp-wise, anyway.
Long term....alcohol is a pretty strong degreaser. It will clean every bit of the oil off the blue steel. That means, without the protective oil, *everything* that touches it will effect the steel. That bare blue steel....tomorrow when you pick it up and leave a fingerprint on it, it will etch into it. Next week, after that hard rain y'all are gonna have, you'll notice a fine coating of surface rust etc.
You can use alcohol to remove fingerprints and smudges etc....but PLEASE wipe it down with some oil right after!
2007-06-13 04:30:46 · answer #3 · answered by randkl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most alcohol you would have around contains some water. If that gets into cracks it will cause rusting. I suggest WD40 or Rem Oil. Rem Oil is a great cleaner/oil. I love it.
2007-06-12 15:55:47 · answer #4 · answered by Colter B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These smudges are probably places where the blueing is wearing very thin or is nonexistant. Clean the rifle with solvent and reblue.
2007-06-12 15:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bradley B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No gun manufacturer recommends any cleaner that doesn't have some kind of oil in it. Use anything that is recommended, NO alcohol, acetone or carburetor cleaner.
These remove all the oil from the metal and will make it brittle.
2007-06-13 14:44:12 · answer #6 · answered by eferrell01 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No water, I use birchwood barricade and gun scrubber.
Scrubber to clean powder residue and barricade to lub and protect.
2007-06-13 04:46:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try using a crumpled up piece of heavy duty aluminum foil. it won't damage the bluing... No joke, it works...Use it like you were using sand paper......
2007-06-13 02:33:58 · answer #8 · answered by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'd guess that you'd be better off using wd-40 or break-free straight up...
2007-06-12 15:05:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋