oil soaked stock ?

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chuck furniss

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Has anyone found a good way to remove enough oil from wood stocks to allow epoxy or other type glue to bond properly?.

Chuck.
 
A couple of things:

powdered chalk applied over the oil stain

soak the area with acetone and wipe it off with clean rags

keep up both until it cleans up
 
I used to do both with military stocks - mix a thick slurry of chalk & acetone, paint it liberally on the stock, stuff it in a black garbage bag & sit it out in the sun a while, maybe repeating once or twice. Amazing how much you can leach out that way (and how difficult it can be to get some of that chalk powder finally off the stock).

I read about that style of cleaning in one of the old "how to do it" articles, but they suggested perchlorethlyne or trichlorethylene (I forgot which) & I figured I was doing my lungs enough damage with the cigarettes I was smoking back then.
 
I have done it hundreds if not thousands of times.
I have always used acetone.
Sometimes I use laq thinner.
 
Whiting and acetone works but is slow. Here's another that is much faster but more expensive. It is quite popular with the double shotgun hobbyists. The problem might be finding a tank big enough for a regular rifle stock.

Get a disposable aluminum roaster pan at the supermarket that is large enough for the
stock. Stop by your Home Depot or whatever and get a gallon of acetone and a
gallon of alcohol. If the stock has a plastic finish you might want a can of
some paste stripper too. Use that first if the outside finish requires it. If
the stock has a varnish or oil finish the acetone will lift that with no
problem. Then toss the stock in the roaster and pour in the acetone (it will
also neutralize the paste stripper). Cover the wood until it floats. Then pull
off a good length of aluminum foil and make a cover for the "tank", sealing it
as well as possible. Be aware that acetone is highly volatile and smoking the
cigar over the top of it is not recommended. Let the things soak for several
days, turning the wood over a couple times a day. When you feel like you're
tired of that, and the acetone looks like it has quit changing color, pour the
acetone back in the can, rinse the roaster out with alcohol, and then soak the
stock in the alcohol just like you did in the acetone. When you yank the baby
out of the alcohol bath it will be CLEAN! And you can seal it and refinish it
anyway you want after you let it dry a couple days


RWO
 
Removing oil from stock

Use Brake Clean degreaser.

I have also coated stocks with GOJO. Yes, white grease that is water soluable. then use Dish washing detergent. Then acetone.

Nat Lambeth
 
Well Chuck tell us HOW you decided to do it and how well it worked.
 
One of the things I do here at the shop is the (correct) restoration and repair of antique firearms.I knew about the chalk and light heat but never tried soaking in acetone.
This is a Colt dbl side lock gun. Stuck the stock into a can up to the wrist area filled with acetone then wrapped it with tin foil and taped the ends. 36 hours later it was done.
Repaired with micro bed , rubbed a little stain on the out side to match the rest of the stock followed by BLO .

Chuck.
 
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