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Well, I decided to put together a long stock to fit me, on the RU77 tanger i'd modified for my wife. I have several take-off stocks on hand - so I picked the worst one, gouged out all the oiled wood and back filled with epoxy bedding. It ain't pretty, but I don't GAS. It's a handle on a hunting rifle. I'd rather confident productive than ,,,,maybe, and pretty.  Don't overthink it..
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Doesn't anyone use Whiting anymore?
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My response above includes whiting.
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Sitka - I'm assuming you soak in acetone?
Or am I misunderstanding?
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I have done the acetone soak a couple if times and it worked very well for me. Left them soak for a couple of days then out in the sun to dry.
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I tried the oven cleaner trick once, on a particularly greasy Garand stock. It sure did the job, but ever after it had a kind of chalky appearance in spite of thorough but judicious sanding and multiple applications of linseed oil and waxing. That soured me on oven cleaner. I bought an M2 Springfield at a show a couple years ago that obviously was treated the same way once upon a time. I can live with it because I got it for about $500 under market value.
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Sitka - I'm assuming you soak in acetone?
Or am I misunderstanding? Yes, acetone
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A good washing with hot soapy water and a bristle brush does an awful lot of good when trying to clean things up. Acetone (and any other solvent) simply dissolve the oils and some comes out.
If you ever have a chance with an oil-soaked useless stock try getting the oil out for a while and then cut it off slice by slice to see how far the oils went when driven by the acetone. It might surprise you. And months later you can still smell acetone.
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A good washing with hot soapy water and a bristle brush does an awful lot of good when trying to clean things up. Acetone (and any other solvent) simply dissolve the oils and some comes out.
If you ever have a chance with an oil-soaked useless stock try getting the oil out for a while and then cut it off slice by slice to see how far the oils went when driven by the acetone. It might surprise you. And months later you can still smell acetone. Usually about an 1/8" is all I got out.
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A good washing with hot soapy water and a bristle brush does an awful lot of good when trying to clean things up. Acetone (and any other solvent) simply dissolve the oils and some comes out.
If you ever have a chance with an oil-soaked useless stock try getting the oil out for a while and then cut it off slice by slice to see how far the oils went when driven by the acetone. It might surprise you. And months later you can still smell acetone. Usually about an 1/8" is all I got out. Yup! About right.
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Thanks, y'all. UPDATE: this stock also needed to be bedded/floated before I started refinishing it. So before hitting it again with chemicals, I decided I would float it and see how deep the oil went. Luckily, 98% of the remaining stain went bye bye when I opened up the channel. Not sure -- and will probably never know -- if the acetone brought it up to the surface or if it just wasn't that deep in the first place. But based on the darkness of the stain, I was genuinely surprised it was deeper.
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There is a product called Super Railroad that will get it out
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I might try trisodium phosphate--real TSP--with hot water.
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