Penetrating Oil and solvent

[amlevin]

Kind of amazing some of us seasoned citizens are still around. I recall many episodes of getting my hands in the parts cleaner to pull out a carburetor (hands still tingle), blowing out the asbestos brake dust when replacing your own brakes was do-able, replacing old style fluorescent ballasts that leaked that smelly oil with PCB's, getting mouthfulls of Sunoco 260 during the '73 oil embargo siphoning gas from my car to put in the motorcycle because MC's were not allowed in gas lines ???, and my all time favorite- squishing mercury blobs into smaller blobs with my finger in chemistry class as they disappeared onto the floor.
And now I have to worry about the accumulated effects of Hoppes # 9 and Butches Bore Shine?
How then, did we get so old....being so stupid?

I'm with you. Worked in the Automotive industry when young. Carb Cleaner, Brake Dust, Leaded Gasoline, Used Motor Oil, all the good stuff was not only in my environment, I think that sometimes it was in my diet. To add to that I went to work in that field after growing up on a farm. Used to walk the fields with a sprayer loaded with the same brush killer as was used in "Agent Orange". Would come back after a few hours of killing Canadian Thistle or Himilaya Blackberrys wearing pants were soaked from the knees down with the brush killer. And then we got to spray the orchard trees.

Smoked too.

Then it was off to the Army with the serious hazard of "Lead Poisoning" (from the flying version).

After all that I've come to the conclusion that the most serious hazards to my health over the last 71 years was two ex wives (and a couple of girlfriends fathers).

As it is today, I have a little arthritis, slightly elevated blood pressure, and take fewer pills than those I know who lived nice "clean" lives, not smoking, exercising regularly, eating only healthy foods, etc.

I'll bet I've had more fun over my years 8) 8)

Now back to penetrating oil. If I have a tough fastener to bust loose I grab the can of Kroil. I then hope there's enough left in the can because that stuff literally crawls up the sides of he can and runs all over the place. I have taken to storing it in a small pan to catch the "runaway oil".

 

[amlevin]

The good old days are gone and I don't miss them, the problem now is how do you clean a factory Savage button rifled barrel below without using Drano or EASY-OFF oven cleaner.

It's a two step process.

Step one, sell the rifle and let someone else worry about it.

Step two, if you don't follow step one, then lap the bore or buy a barrel from someone that knows how to rifle on without the "chatter marks".

One question. Why haven't you sent that barrel back to Savage (if it's stock)?

 

[Hopkins]

I'm relieved to know that my Kroil isn't the only migratory kroil out there.

 

[bigedp51]

The good old days are gone and I don't miss them, the problem now is how do you clean a factory Savage button rifled barrel below without using Drano or EASY-OFF oven cleaner.

It's a two step process.

Step one, sell the rifle and let someone else worry about it.

Step two, if you don't follow step one, then lap the bore or buy a barrel from someone that knows how to rifle on without the "chatter marks".

One question. Why haven't you sent that barrel back to Savage (if it's stock)?

Dear amlevin

1. The barrel photos are from Google images off the internet and not from any of my Savage rifles and these images are "extreme" closeup photos.

2. I'm a cheap bastard and I do not have a borescope, and do not want to find out if my barrels are that bad.

3. These Savage barrels shoot better than I can and clean up very easily with foam bore cleaner.

4. If you are rich and have deep pockets please feel free to send me a new custom made hand lapped barrel in .243 or .308.

5. I only come to this website to harass the people with the type barrels I can't afford.

Have a nice day..........
May the barrel gods bless you with premature throat erosion and (expletive deleted)

Signed
bigedp51

 

[amlevin]

4. If you are rich and have deep pockets please feel free to send me a new custom made hand lapped barrel in .243 or .308.

Why not learn how to lap the barrels yourself? Do you think it takes some kind of special "secret society knowledge"?

 

[fredhorace77]

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[dogdude]

bigedp51, I like your ''style''. that pic of a Savage 2 inch's in is what my b-in laws barrel looked like (have a bore scope) 150 rds at 300 yrds 6'' was the BEST. he bought two spray cans of paint($8) made it look TACTICAL and sold it on GB for $300 more than he paid for it! My mother's dog has been missing, but I think I've found it in your dishwasher and she want's it BACK!!! dogdude

 

[amlevin]

he bought two spray cans of paint($8) made it look TACTICAL and sold it on GB for $300 more than he paid for it!

Funny. A local gun shop told me a similar story. When they had a glut of Mossberg shotguns they just put pistol grips on then and they flew off the rack.

Rifles with "tactical paint' don't stay on the consignment rack very long while anything with a shiny blue, even if it's a bargain, can sit there for months.