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Johnny Peppers · 11-27-2001, 11:50 PM

The whiting is used to pull oil and grease from M1 Rifle stocks that have become too oil soaked to restore any other way. It is mixed in a solution and the stock is soaked in a tank of the solution. Some of the rifles have been stored in cosmoline for over 40 years and the stocks have really taken up a lot of grease. This is not done on collector quality stocks, but just to aid in the restoration of a virtually useless stock. The 50/50 mixture of BLO and turpentine is a very good finish for these stocks also.

11-27-2001, 11:50 PM	#15
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: I second Bill Stanley's comments Art... The whiting is used to pull oil and grease from M1 Rifle stocks that have become too oil soaked to restore any other way. It is mixed in a solution and the stock is soaked in a tank of the solution. Some of the rifles have been stored in cosmoline for over 40 years and the stocks have really taken up a lot of grease. This is not done on collector quality stocks, but just to aid in the restoration of a virtually useless stock. The 50/50 mixture of BLO and turpentine is a very good finish for these stocks also.