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RUST......help
William81
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Found an old Remington Model 12 in my Dad's old warehouse. It was in the trunk of a car he parked in there 15 plus years ago.
The barrel looks fine, it pumps and ejects fine. The problem is the rust. Where does a guy start in cleaning up this gun.
Thanks for the help
The barrel looks fine, it pumps and ejects fine. The problem is the rust. Where does a guy start in cleaning up this gun.
Thanks for the help
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But, it may not be possible to save it. Rust is a loss of steel, & it can't be put back.
Neal
0000 steel wool and remoil...I'm sure that answer is far too simple,to be agreed upon so....U'll see how wrong i am,in mere minutes.
fish has no clue, use 0000 steel wool and Remoil. [;)][:D][:D]
A couple of days in most any good oil will help loosen, slow/kill/inhibit further rusting, Kroil is fine.
Cutting off the oxygen that helps feed the rust and removing all the rust will stop further rusting...so until and if a new finish is applied I'd keep a coat of Tetra Grease/FLITZ on the metal parts.
For any rusted internal parts Id use the 0000, since even saturated in a lube the 0000 will remove any bluing that is left.
IF it's not pitted and a reblue may be in the future, I'd use the soapless ScotchBrite pads found at the grocery store to scrub any blued parts but...if scrubbed hard/long enough even with the SB pads, those too will remove blue...just not as readily as the 0000 will.
You could have it Parked, park hides a multitude of sins where other smoother finishes dont...[;)]