DrScaryGuy
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So a little bit ago, my wife asked me "ooh, what are you baking?"
Me: "um... barrels"
See, at a gun show in the late fall, I bought 5 blem barrels on clearance. Being a smart man, I put them in the garage so my wife wouldn't see them, with the intention of getting them into the safe soon.
Being a dum man, i forgot about them.
Being a dummer man, I was still thinking about winter being like up in MI (cold enough to stop chemistry and dryer than [insert inappropriate reference]). I did not really expect the constant cool, rain, fog, condensation cycles of these here sand hills.
So all the barrels were mottled and patchy with bits of surface rust. The bores looked good the other day, but the surfaces were still ugly.
Tap water in the kitchen sink, 000 steel wool, into the oven at 225° for a while to dry, then liberal amounts of hoppes 9 oil inside and out while they were still very warm to the touch..
I think they all cleaned up okay. They were meant to be meme/plinker/fun rifles/pistols anyway. Except one is now being built into a 10.5" home defense pistol and a suppressor mount is being pulled from a different barrel... but whatever. if it runs and can hit minute of man at 20 yards, it's more than good enough.
Me: "um... barrels"
See, at a gun show in the late fall, I bought 5 blem barrels on clearance. Being a smart man, I put them in the garage so my wife wouldn't see them, with the intention of getting them into the safe soon.
Being a dum man, i forgot about them.
Being a dummer man, I was still thinking about winter being like up in MI (cold enough to stop chemistry and dryer than [insert inappropriate reference]). I did not really expect the constant cool, rain, fog, condensation cycles of these here sand hills.
So all the barrels were mottled and patchy with bits of surface rust. The bores looked good the other day, but the surfaces were still ugly.
Tap water in the kitchen sink, 000 steel wool, into the oven at 225° for a while to dry, then liberal amounts of hoppes 9 oil inside and out while they were still very warm to the touch..
I think they all cleaned up okay. They were meant to be meme/plinker/fun rifles/pistols anyway. Except one is now being built into a 10.5" home defense pistol and a suppressor mount is being pulled from a different barrel... but whatever. if it runs and can hit minute of man at 20 yards, it's more than good enough.
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