Some time ago I wrote a post about my use of an electronic bore cleaner.
I thought I would elaborate on it a little.
Please note from the start I am not a very good photographer and in truth did not think anyone would be interested so only took a few photos.
I saw an advertisement for 71/84 Mauser barreled receivers for $7.95 each on a web site and if you bought $75.00 worth of anything you got free shipping.
So I bought 10 of them.
Of the 10 I bought 6 barrels were good to excellent and the others sewer pipes.
Having to clean them in some manner I built the tanks I will try to describe.
Having used an electronic bore cleaner to clean bores on various old milsurp rifles I built a tank I could completely immerse the barreled receivers in to clean the outside
What I came up with is a 5 foot piece of plastic sewer pipe capped on one end with a 1/2 inch valve glued into the cap for drainage.
The rods are simple black iron rods with copper wire attached.
The rust you see is from the last rifles I did.
Filled with water and 3 cups of Arm and Hammer washing soda the parts are completely immersed in the water and a cell phone charger hooked up to the leads to make it work
To clean the many small parts I built a smaller tank that I used a copper wire cross grid to attach the parts to.
After the barreled receivers came out of the large tank and were rubbed down with steel wool they looked like this
Since I could not find a stock anywhere I built stocks from scratch using pictures I found on the internet as a guide.
The wood is common store bought walnut (bannister grade),
The only power tools were a saber saw to cut out the basic shape and a router to cut the magazine trough as I could not make a chisel small enough that would work.
The final pictures are the completed rifles (I made 2). It took 2 years of looking for parts and my own labors.
I shoot one with black powder and the other with smokeless.
Fartherest I have shot them is 855 yards and with good accuracy
Restoration of an old antique
Restoration of an old antique
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Re: Restoration of an old antique
Great work on the guns. Love your home made immersion tanks. For electric rust removal. I need to build somthing like this. For tools n such. Lol
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Re: Restoration of an old antique
I'd love to get into a gig like that .
Nice work on those.
Nice work on those.
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