Long term storage question
Instead of using cosmoline, some locals are doing long term storage of rifles in pvc pipe filled with motor oil. What would this do to wooden stocks?
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I have been using Eezox for about 20 years and this stuff really works especially in my area. It is a synthetic and wont hurt metals or wood. I have had several of my rifles stored for over 12 years and they still are in same shape as when I stored them. It seems to dissipate moisture and you just spray it on and it covers like a light oil. Good luck[:)][:)] 0 -
wipe them down in rem-oil and vacuum seal them.
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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Rem-oil has a very aggressive ingredient. Try spraying some on your skin and watch what happens. The burn will take a couple of weeks to heal. I've never tried it, but I have to think that it will eat through plastic vacuum bags in a few days. There are several other synthetic products out there that are supposed to be "water displacing" and the next generation which is supposed to be even better. Unfortunately, I can't remember the generic name for the stuff. I've used Ballistol and Rig along with vacuum bags for about 6 years now and everthing seems to be good. Whether you have wood or synthetic stocks, again I have to think sealing it in a tube filled with oil will create more problems than it prevents. Best of luck. 0 -
I seperate the wood from the action and use cosmolene for the metal, and oil (Linseed or Tung) on the inside of the barel channel and any other non finished areas of the stock to avoid checking, although you won't want to use too much as it WILL pick up a surprising amount of weight if you really pour it on! Eezox is a really good product, but I can get bricks of Cosmo all but free. It's a bummer to get off later, but I've sen guns stored 50 years that came out beautifully once all that gunk was peeled off. Lanolin doesn't seem to mess up blueing. Kerosene, on the other hand, is no good for wood.
Seperately bag the stock (vacuum) using a few Midway cardboard moisture absorbing cards, making sure to keep them off the finish. Bag the action and seal it, and you're pretty well done.
Having said this, I guess I've done this twice, as I maintain my...well, SEVERAL guns...at least twice a year each. GRanted I'm spending alot of time doing this but I get to reacquaint myself with some cherished old friends who desrve to be let out of the gun cabinet at least every once in a while!
I once ( on a bet) buried a Russian SKS that I got too cheap to be believed for it's condition in a big Plano O-ring flyrod travel case (next time I use one of those big Multi O-ringed ammo/missile tubes I've seen in Shotgun News). I followed the method above and 5 years later dug it up and won my $50 bet as the gun was just as left originally. There was some nastyness inside the travel tube, (mold from condensation that was really not bad at all) but I still have the gun and it has fared very well indeed.
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I use Rem-Oil almost exclusively, and have had it on my hands many a time, no burns. I dunno what you're thinking of but it isn't the same stuff. Maybe the remington gun scrubber chloride cleaner? If it is the oil, I might need to experiment some more and re-evaluate if I should keep using it.
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Rem-oil has a very aggressive ingredient. Try spraying some on your skin and watch what happens. The burn will take a couple of weeks to heal. I've never tried it, but I have to think that it will eat through plastic vacuum bags in a few days. There are several other synthetic products out there that are supposed to be "water displacing" and the next generation which is supposed to be even better. Unfortunately, I can't remember the generic name for the stuff. I've used Ballistol and Rig along with vacuum bags for about 6 years now and everthing seems to be good. Whether you have wood or synthetic stocks, again I have to think sealing it in a tube filled with oil will create more problems than it prevents. Best of luck.
"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf0 -
Why would you do oil or cosmo??or long term at all
I have a weatherby V thats 30 years old never fired that just
sits in the gun rack and looks new
I only wipe it down If someone wants to
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i think they might be wanting to bury them in their back yards.
I'm not an expert, but i did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.0 -
I concur with Jonk on the Rem oil, I use it a lot and no burns. 0 -
I use G96 gun treatment and Vaccum seal my long term valuble guns. You can get the new space bags that vaccum seal with a shopvac. They work. for safety you can put some silica gel in with it. 0 -
I might sound dumb but,,,why are you guys burying the guns ??,,I have my fathers and grandfathers guns and take them out twice a year and clean em,,oil em,,and put em away,,,and i'm talking about old winchesters here,,,,am i missing some new fad or what,,,,just wondering
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They are burying guns against the day when the black helicopters land and all the guns or taken.
Or maybe for the coming revolution...0 -
No problems I have ever seen with rem-oil either. I have had enough on my hands at this point,..that if there is a carcinogen in it,..I WILL have cancer. Teflon is non-aggressive and non-reactive. It is also one of the slickest substances known to man,..which makes for a very non-attractive finish as far as foreign matter is concerned. It eventually evaporates on my guns in the safe,..which is one reason I like it so much,..it does not gum up or form a varnish like the penetrating oils such as WD40.
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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