to refurb or not......
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Lee Stone
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gmartin
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Museum Preservation
Woodpuppy,
This may not be for you but... The Id. State Historical Museum uses a thin coating of a microcrystaline wax, such as the brand Renaissance Wax on metal surfaces only. The caveat is is that there must be no oils anywhere this stuff is applied, or rust. However, once done, and the firearm is not handled, it will last practically forever. The wood surfaces are waxed gently with a car wax such as a carnuba formula type. I neglected to ask how the microcrystaline wax was applied to the bore but that could be figured out.
Good luck! Gregg
This may not be for you but... The Id. State Historical Museum uses a thin coating of a microcrystaline wax, such as the brand Renaissance Wax on metal surfaces only. The caveat is is that there must be no oils anywhere this stuff is applied, or rust. However, once done, and the firearm is not handled, it will last practically forever. The wood surfaces are waxed gently with a car wax such as a carnuba formula type. I neglected to ask how the microcrystaline wax was applied to the bore but that could be figured out.
Good luck! Gregg
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to get back on track if you just clean it and oil it with any good gun oil and look after it and handle it and ck it every month or so and wipe it down with a good wood and metal conditioner it will look cared for and last a long time. clean the metal with flitz and the stock with a good wood polish then just wipe it down occasionally with Ballistol on everything
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Todd Birch
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Wood Puppy
I'm coming late into this discussion.
Yes, there are men out there who can do a bore relining job for you and leave the rest of the rifle untouched.
A friend has an original '73 Winchester he got for cheap because the bore was a sewer pipe. He had it relined and you literally cannot detect the work.
Historically, thousands of guns like yours were converted to .50-70 after the Civil War. If the bores were shot out or oversized, they were relined with a .50 calibre sleeve. If not, they were converted 'as is'.
Preserving it in it's present condition is the very least you can do by the rifle.
Todd
I'm coming late into this discussion.
Yes, there are men out there who can do a bore relining job for you and leave the rest of the rifle untouched.
A friend has an original '73 Winchester he got for cheap because the bore was a sewer pipe. He had it relined and you literally cannot detect the work.
Historically, thousands of guns like yours were converted to .50-70 after the Civil War. If the bores were shot out or oversized, they were relined with a .50 calibre sleeve. If not, they were converted 'as is'.
Preserving it in it's present condition is the very least you can do by the rifle.
Todd
"From birth to the packing house, we travel between the two eternities ....." Robert Duvall in "Broken Trail"
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Scota4570
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Preservatives
LPS-3Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have recommendations on how to stop rust and preserve a pitted bore for storage? (please don't say cosmoline)