Figure 1 showsBirchwood Casey's Blue & Rust Remover. Basically a
Phosphoric Acid solution, it works wonders in quickly removing
blue from a milsurp's metal surface.
Alcohol works just as well (Hint: because that is what it is
made of!).
Figure 3 shows
Birchwood Casey's Gun Scrubber.
Also Break Free's Powder Blast works very well.
Note: I am not trying to be a poster child for Birchwood
Casey, but this is what is handy at the local gun stores near
my house.
1) I start out
by cleaning all of the visible dirt and oil off of the rifle using
the Gun Scrubber.
Note: Be careful with this stuff.
It burns your skin, hurts your eyes, has strong smell, and will
melt plastic or vinyl.
2) Clean all of
the rifle parts with a good degreaser as shown in figure 5.
It is important to remove all oils on the rifles surface.
3) I use .30
caliber cleaning patches to apply chemicals, apply finishes,
clean, etc.
Note: Make sure you
wear eye protection while using the chemicals in this article. Most
are highly toxic and will hurt like a dickens if you get it in your
eyes.
4) After cleaning
the rifle, rinse under water and dry with a clean rag.
5) Soak a stack
of three cleaning patches with the Blue & Rust Remover.
6) Apply the solution
to the surface of the rifle.
7) Look at the
rust on the patch in figure 10.
8) After you have
covered all of the exposed metal with Blue & Rust Remover
solution you need to wait around 2 minutes for the solution to work.
Steel wool the surface to help the process.
9)Figure 12
shows the blueing removed from the rifle's surface.
10)
Repeat steps 1 through 4.
Note: You may have to do this procedure more than once
to remove all of the blueing.
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