G1 wood stock refinishing

gunnut1 · August 31, 2001, 20:21

Someone on the board said they were going to use Brownell's Whiting on his stock.

Have you "been there done that" yet. If you have, how did you like the whiting?

[ August 31, 2001: Message edited by: gunnut1 ]

Gunmasters · August 31, 2001, 20:58

If you are tring to lighten the stock, or to get some stained areas out.E-Mail me and I have a few tricks up my sleve that might help.

Derby FALs · August 31, 2001, 22:10

Lightly scrape the wood all over to open it up and soak it in laquer thinner for one week. It will pull most everything out of the wood. I get 5 gallon cans of laquer thinner for $20 at auto paint shop.

Batman · August 31, 2001, 22:22

I think that if you can just get the oil and grease out it will function and feel fine. one you start sanding then must fo the distance with refinishing. A nice project but alot of work.

fenian15 · September 01, 2001, 17:54

that might have been me...I've used whiting a couple of times now to pull cosmoline/oil out of wood stocks. You mix the whiting with acetone, and make a paste...coat one side of the stock, and then I stick it in the car with the windows rolled up. After 3 or 4 hours, you can see the whiting turn that nasty green cosmoline color where it's pulling it out.

Brush off the mix, then recoat as needed. You can get a boatload of oil out in a pretty short time.

BTW, the whiting is listed as calcium carbonate, which you may be able to get at a chemical supply place, if you don't want to order it from Brownell's. My guess is that it would be cheaper if you did it that way, although the dealer cost at Brownell's for a 3lb jug is only $8 and change.

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Derby FALs Supreme Leader FALaholic #: 2361 Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posts: 2,610	Lightly scrape the wood all over to open it up and soak it in laquer thinner for one week. It will pull most everything out of the wood. I get 5 gallon cans of laquer thinner for $20 at auto paint shop. __________________ “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” - Thomas Jefferson Salami, salami, baloney... :bow: http://www.derbyfals.com/home.htm

August 31, 2001, 22:22	#4
Batman Registered FALaholic #: 513 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: SE, Michigan Posts: 2,048	I think that if you can just get the oil and grease out it will function and feel fine. one you start sanding then must fo the distance with refinishing. A nice project but alot of work. __________________ Say what you mean and mean what you say. Those who are silent are understood to consent.

September 01, 2001, 17:54	#5
fenian15 Registered FALaholic #: 3470 Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: VA, USA Posts: 173	that might have been me...I've used whiting a couple of times now to pull cosmoline/oil out of wood stocks. You mix the whiting with acetone, and make a paste...coat one side of the stock, and then I stick it in the car with the windows rolled up. After 3 or 4 hours, you can see the whiting turn that nasty green cosmoline color where it's pulling it out. Brush off the mix, then recoat as needed. You can get a boatload of oil out in a pretty short time. BTW, the whiting is listed as calcium carbonate, which you may be able to get at a chemical supply place, if you don't want to order it from Brownell's. My guess is that it would be cheaper if you did it that way, although the dealer cost at Brownell's for a 3lb jug is only $8 and change. __________________ "Who dares to say, "forget the past", to men of Irish spirit? Who dares to say, "cease fighting" for our place upon this earth? Let rememberance be our watchword, and our dead we'll never fail... Let their graves be as milestones on this one way bloody trail." "Is cuma a mhairimse ach ló 'gus oíche, ach clú 'gus cáil ar m'éachtaí."

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August 31, 2001, 20:58	#2
Gunmasters Registered FALaholic #: 4009 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: N.E. Ohio Posts: 14	If you are tring to lighten the stock, or to get some stained areas out.E-Mail me and I have a few tricks up my sleve that might help.