number6
07-22-2010, 04:31 PM
I have a wire wrapped Enfield I bought some time ago, but man, is that thing nasty with dirty cosmoline embedded into every nook & cranny. I can't touch it without my hands looking like I've been working on my Jeep engine.
I don't like greasy guns, and all my other C&Rs are clean because I could disassemble them. Not so with this Enfield.
I thought if I bought a few cans of brake cleaner spray, I could stand the Enfield in a corner, muzzle down (removing the end-cap first), and use that tube on the brake cleaner to shoot between the wood stock & the metal to wash as much of the old cosmoline out of by just flooding it out.
I'd like to get it clean so I can take it to the range and shoot it. Anyone else have an alternate, better or easier method of cleaning a wire wrapped Enfield?
I don't like greasy guns, and all my other C&Rs are clean because I could disassemble them. Not so with this Enfield.
I thought if I bought a few cans of brake cleaner spray, I could stand the Enfield in a corner, muzzle down (removing the end-cap first), and use that tube on the brake cleaner to shoot between the wood stock & the metal to wash as much of the old cosmoline out of by just flooding it out.
I'd like to get it clean so I can take it to the range and shoot it. Anyone else have an alternate, better or easier method of cleaning a wire wrapped Enfield?