Can someone explain straw to a "rookie"?

policeluger · 02-13-2004, 11:24 AM

Sorry gunny, I ver strongly disagree, I would never use steel wool on anything I wanted to protect its investment grade/rating...get out of the stone ages of our grandfathers steel wool and oil and get a small pad of "Big .45 metal cleaner", you can scrub as hard as you want on the finist blued/strawed gun parts, and not a bit of finish will be touched. The very nature of steel wool will scratch, even a very fine amount, but it will scratch..."Big.45" pad will not harm the finist finishes...I think Brownells carrys it, or I sometimes find it at larger gun shows....use the pad, or a small part of it with a little oil or #9. Give it a try

02-13-2004, 11:24 AM	#6
policeluger RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ca. Posts: 2,141 Thanks: 8 Thanked 89 Times in 54 Posts	Sorry gunny, I ver strongly disagree, I would never use steel wool on anything I wanted to protect its investment grade/rating...get out of the stone ages of our grandfathers steel wool and oil and get a small pad of "Big .45 metal cleaner", you can scrub as hard as you want on the finist blued/strawed gun parts, and not a bit of finish will be touched. The very nature of steel wool will scratch, even a very fine amount, but it will scratch..."Big.45" pad will not harm the finist finishes...I think Brownells carrys it, or I sometimes find it at larger gun shows....use the pad, or a small part of it with a little oil or #9. Give it a try