Soaking a Luger in Solvent

Art · 03-07-2006, 05:43 PM

Well I am someone! Of course I only have a mear 45 years experience in cleaning fine firearms and Lugers among other Luger work. I have used 0000 grade steel wool for 40 years and have not harmed a gun yet. It would take a while but I expect I could locate quite a number of talented gunsmiths that use steel wool also. I know of at least 3 members of this forum that have used it a long time. The key word here is 0000 grade----4 OUGHT!!! Certainly the course stuff will remove blue but not the -----4 OUGHT. It will even clean rust from straw with out harm. Steelwool already has a bit of oil in it to prevent rust. I sometimes add more oil. Guess who stocks 0000? --- Wal Mart. More than 45 years ago an old gunsmith showed me another way to remove mild frost from blue with out harm to the blue. A piece of brown paper sack and gun oil. It works!! So you new guys use what you feel comfortable with-----I just suggest that you don't let the armchair speculators talk you out of a good thing.

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03-07-2006, 05:43 PM	#11
Art User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: missouri Posts: 32 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Well I am someone! Of course I only have a mear 45 years experience in cleaning fine firearms and Lugers among other Luger work. I have used 0000 grade steel wool for 40 years and have not harmed a gun yet. It would take a while but I expect I could locate quite a number of talented gunsmiths that use steel wool also. I know of at least 3 members of this forum that have used it a long time. The key word here is 0000 grade----4 OUGHT!!! Certainly the course stuff will remove blue but not the -----4 OUGHT. It will even clean rust from straw with out harm. Steelwool already has a bit of oil in it to prevent rust. I sometimes add more oil. Guess who stocks 0000? --- Wal Mart. More than 45 years ago an old gunsmith showed me another way to remove mild frost from blue with out harm to the blue. A piece of brown paper sack and gun oil. It works!! So you new guys use what you feel comfortable with-----I just suggest that you don't let the armchair speculators talk you out of a good thing.