Phantom 631 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 (edited) Last week I went out for a bit of a shoot in the cemetery and popped a bunny for the ferrets. It rained very heavily and it was so cold I needed a hot coffee. As it was very late, I had my coffee, wrote a couple of emails and then tucked myself up after swallowing a sleeper. Planning on going out with a pal of mine this evening I decided to check my baby over and make sure the cylinder is up to pressure Well F k me, I was mortified to see the state of her on both the barrel and the cylinder (mainly the cylinder). It was still matt black but with large areas of Orange/brown RUST I had totally forgotton to wipe my baby down with a dry cloth before wiping her down with an oily rag Its taken me the best part of an hour with aluminium foil to get some of the marks off. Now I've hung an oily rag up on the peg that I hang my gun slip on to remind me to do it when I get home. I've done that twice now in the two years I've had her. My oily rag reminder will make sure that I dont do it again to any of my guns Phantom Edited October 23, 2010 by Phantom Quote Link to post
rossy08 33 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 tony mate we have all bin there and got the t shirt for that one. not me odviously so whats this about the tin foil an oil??? heard someting about this the other day,,,get a lot of 2nd hand guns in the shop that have this problem. atb Andy Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted October 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 I took a leaf out of Andy's book (Think it was him) scrunched up a bit of foil and used it as a scouring pad to remove the rust. Leaves the metal looking silver like, but that is then removed with a bit of cloth (I used the microfibre one) to remove the aluminium and the rust dust. Then wiped it down with an oily rag to help protect it from the oxygen in the air. Phantom Quote Link to post
sibaldib 6 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Hope it's all back as before Tony. I've just done the same with my Beretta o/u shotgun. Obviously didn't wipe it down last time and found some rust sroung the breech. Interesting tip about the ally foil. Thanks Sib Quote Link to post
deanothehunter 34 Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 tin foil is very good for that and its soft and does not do any damage i use 2 small squares of foil wet them and rub old coins i have found metal detecting it works best on silver but sometimes other metals too as i am into metal detecting as much as shooting so its hard to find time for both lol:thumbs: Quote Link to post
Spanishfly 0 Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Handy tip with the Al foil, thanks. Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Handy tip with the Al foil, thanks. A pleasure And :welcomeani: to the best little airgun section in town Phantom Quote Link to post
ArchieHood 3,692 Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 Last week I went out for a bit of a shoot in the cemetery and popped a bunny for the ferrets. It rained very heavily and it was so cold I needed a hot coffee. As it was very late, I had my coffee, wrote a couple of emails and then tucked myself up after swallowing a sleeper. Planning on going out with a pal of mine this evening I decided to check my baby over and make sure the cylinder is up to pressure Well F k me, I was mortified to see the state of her on both the barrel and the cylinder (mainly the cylinder). It was still matt black but with large areas of Orange/brown RUST I had totally forgotton to wipe my baby down with a dry cloth before wiping her down with an oily rag Its taken me the best part of an hour with aluminium foil to get some of the marks off. Now I've hung an oily rag up on the peg that I hang my gun slip on to remind me to do it when I get home. I've done that twice now in the two years I've had her. My oily rag reminder will make sure that I dont do it again to any of my guns Phantom Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 LOL Archie, Can you PM me your address please? I'm on the second read of that book now Phantom Quote Link to post
andyfr1968 772 Posted November 5, 2010 Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 (edited) Rossy08...... Can you please change your avatar...?? I keep on wanting to reply to posts but each time you've posted before me, I get very distracted then forget what it was that I wanted to say.... Cheers.... Edit... Oh yes, remembered now!!! I really got on with my 410c but I only needed to show it a rain cloud and it'd try to go rusty. AA make top class guns with bottom class blueing. The problem doesn't seem to affect their springers though... Edited November 6, 2010 by andyfr1968 Quote Link to post
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