Any guys here clean guns

[Traxxis]

http://www.castbullet.com/misc/tdown.htm

If you do it yourself... make sure you have a good set of GUNSMITHS SCREWDRIVERS.

I have taken a few pre war Winchesters apart... about the only part that causes real trouble is the magazine tube. Those need to be swabbed out every 80 years or so. I bet your 50's version could be cleaned well enough by cracking the action open and going after the innards with spray solvents, rags, old toothbrushes and fingers.

When I work on a Winchester lever that needs a little more attention... I pull the buttstock.. hose out the guts with a good solvent and blow it out with compressed air. Oil up the moving parts and go shooting.

Amen to that.

How about the Winchester 1897's? I had a couple about a year ago come to me that had been sitting in an attic for about 70 years and they were dang near welded shut... they sure cleaned up well, but boy did it take a lot of elbow grease.

 

[Traxxis]

^^^ See guy above your post.

I have not had any guns cleaned by Traxxis but everyone that does raves about his work.
My next guns will go to him

Thanks fellas.

 

[BadgeBunny]

who's you gunsmith b-bunny....how much does he charge???

GlockCop ...

her hubby would be my guess....and I'm sure you don't wanna know what he charges

Pretty much ...

Oh I see makes more sense now

You know, I am pretty sure if you wanted to meet us at Banner sometime he would be glad to show you how if you don't know. If you know and just don't want to fool with it yourself, though, I am gonna say that Stan (Traxxis) is your man.

He likes cleaning guns and will do it for co-workers sometimes and me always but that is about the limit of his "outside" work. He is too busy reloading boollleetts so I can shoot ...

 

[Zombie]

heck if OP wants to learn how to take it apart and do basic cleaning I'll gladly show him...but if he wants every nook and cranny cleaned and it as clean as humanly possible take it to Traxxis

 

[BadgeBunny]

heck if OP wants to learn how to take it apart and do basic cleaning I'll gladly show him...but if he wants every nook and cranny cleaned and it as clean as humanly possible take it to Traxxis

I wasn't talking to the OP... I was talking to rg1964 ...

 

[Zombie]

I wasn't talking to the OP... I was talking to rg1964 ...

that is the OP (Original Poster)

 

[BadgeBunny]

that is the OP (Original Poster)

 

[Jefpainthorse]

Amen to that.

How about the Winchester 1897's? I had a couple about a year ago come to me that had been sitting in an attic for about 70 years and they were dang near welded shut... they sure cleaned up well, but boy did it take a lot of elbow grease.

Wow..those '97's have more tiny parts and gee- haws inside than you can shake a stick at. Brownells and the other supply houses sell screw driver sets for the odd screws John Browning used in that shotgun.

If I had one that was locked up with dustbunnies and dinosaur crap I'd probably shuck the butt stock and hang the action in a vat of mineral spirits or Transmission fluid for a long week end and have at it later.

It's amazing how bad some of those old guns can get.. and still work after a little TLC goodness comes their way.

 

[glock girl]

that is the OP (Original Poster)

That ain't what OP stands for in lotsa the innernetz. Just saying.

 

[SoonerDVM]

That ain't what OP stands for in lotsa the innernetz. Just saying.

Disagree. :p

In forum lingo, OP pretty much always means either the "original post" or the "original poster."