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....Extremely fine 0000 steel wool saturated with your favorite gun oil for surface rust on a blued gun. Easy does it.

I don't eat toast <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />how about biscuits and gravy. Will get some and use it. I travel alot to work so the guns have to set in the safe alot. Have you ever tried the never dulls on a gloss finish. Was just gonna try it on and old barrel just to see what it would to the gloss finish. How much would you recommend I put on those biscuits <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />.

Savparts,

I saw Simple Green at Home Depot. Read the back of the small bottle (about 3 or 5 oz size) and it did not say anything about removing rust. It smelled like lemon etc, my guess is one of the bottles were leaking. I happened to walk by and noticed it, the name looked familiar. Did not buy it until I comfirmed someone mentioned Simple Green on this thread. I'd like to get the bigger bottle. By the way, how do you know simple green is indeed removing rust? For the tough to reach spots, like around S/N, do you rub simple green with 00000 brush?

Buzz, I will have to look up Flitz. My wife says what is Flitz, and I say its to remove rust on the guns. She walks away and says "I told ya you shud not buy more guns than you can shoot!". She then says "When will you clean the shower?"

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Here's an old trick I've used when doing "rUstoration", but don't want to hurt the finish that is OK. Take a simple #2 pencil and rub the pencil lead over the rust. After all rust is coated, use the other end of the pencil to "erase" the rust. Doesn't work on deeply pitted rust, but sure does a good job on light rust. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Hi, haven't heard of "simple green" until this thread.

This is not a common product here in Australia, but as I was going through a large hardware store the other day after reading this thread I came across a product called "simple green" in a spray bottle which is used for cleaning bathroom tiles and grout etc.

Is this the same product you are talking about here re cleaning rust?

Thanks

That is the stuff, but in my expirence it is really not a good rust remover, it does remove dirt and grease better than most anything you will find and with that grime some rust will be removed. Dedicated products like Flitz or Semichrome will remove rust very well. Semichrome has some abrasive in it so it should be used sparingly, Flitz seems to be very similar but with out the abrasive. Plain old silver polish will also remove light surface rust but must be compleatly removed unless packaging indicates that it is also a preservative. Any thing that containd amonia will remove bluing if not used very carefully.

Bullwnkl.

Hey Bull

Fluid fim is the best I use it on all my car truck van doors and every where the only thing is it stinks and makes me sick. I was introduced to it in my ailine days I like g-96 I believe it is just as good as fluid film but does not stink.

Bearbeater

BB, yeah Fluid Film is a bit on the oderiferous side but man it works. As a rust remover it is ok but not in the same leauge as dedicated polishes and rust removers such as my favorite "Flitz"

Bullwnkl.

Thanks for the help.

As Bullwnkl said, we use lot's of Fluid Film on the helicopters I work on for Uncle Sam. We take the liquid stuff and put it in a can which is pressurized. Then using a long slender rod, we 'fog' all the hard to reach spots on the airframe. The voids between the cabin floor and the bottom skin of the helo have no access panels (gotta remove the whole cabin floor) and a monthly fogging of that area keep corrosion at bay.

In fact we just had to lift up a large floor panel, and I was dreading the amount of corrosion we would discover, and have to repair. I was pleasantly surprised to find NO corrosion, and the Fluid Film had nicely coated everything in there without too much build up.

We use the grease to coat the mounting feet and bolts on the gearboxes. These gearboxes have magnesium housings, combined with steel bolts, and aluminum airframe fittings. The chance for disimular metal corrosion runs very high in those areas! Combined with the fact that these helos spend many hours a month hovering 15-35 feet above the saltwater, and come home caked in dried salt spray, it's a miracle any product works at keeping them rust free. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Fluid Film is actually made from Sheep oil, and is enviromentally friendly too. But the smell is so bad that we fog the aircraft after midnight, when the hanger is mostly empty. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

sheep oil is known as "Lanolin" The stuff that makes really good Wool sweaters shed water and feel nice and soft. Fluid film works great on my deep sea fishing reels, no corrosion, just do not use it on the line or spool.

Bullwnkl.

OK, very interested, I have several bottles of a similar product made here in Australia but no longer available.

It was great stuff, called "Lonoguard"

Where do you get this product "Fluid film " any leads?

Thanks

http://www.bluewonder.us/BlueWonderGunCleaner.html

Hmmmmmmmm..............interesting comments from all you posters. I use birchwood casey gunstock wax to coat the receiver and barrel with before the hunting season.
Never had anything rust on me yet. Of course I do not live in the coastal climate either.