Oil Removal....
 

....process, please! I recall reading about using a kitchen oven to slowly force the oil out of a stock. I wish to give this process a try, but do not recall what temperature range was recommended. Would a rag and alcohol be a good way to quickly remove oil that has been brought to the surface of the wood? Thank you!

Mark

This may help http://www.lcsmith.org/faq/oil.html

Cheers
Marcus

I was talking to Dave Trevallion, a well know stocker, and he showed me pictures of a process where he put the head of a stock in a crock pot filled with a substance (can't remember what he said it was, some kind of "earth") that acted like Kitty Litter to suck the oil out.

Someone else had a thread on this forum talking about how this was done too. You might search for it. I know that as a result of that thread an FAQ was added to our faq web page that documented the recommended process described in that thread.

I suggest you look for the old forum thread, it had quite the discussion on the pro and con of several processes.

Thank you!

Mark - drive over to your local auto parts store, or big box hardware store, and pick up a bag of oil dri or other oil absorbent material. Lay the stock down in a long box on some of the oil dri and then pour some of it over the surface and leave it for a few days.

You'll be amazed at the result. I've been using that process for years to draw out oil from the head of, or cracks in, old stocks. Back when I started using it the stuff was called Speedy Dry. We used it to soak up spilled oils from the gas station repair shop bays.

John, that sounds like a great idea! I'da never thought of using floor dry. The 'quart jar and acetone method' sounds relatively safe, too.

One must always keep in mind that it took decades for that oil to soak deep into the stock head, and getting it all out is virtually impossible. Much can be removed however by getting some TSP at your local hardware, mixing with water and soaking the stock for a day or two (weighted down with a brick, etc.). Change the solution once in the midst. Then rinse with clean water. After that, wash with lacquer thinner and allow to dry. That's about all you can do.

All this is for a stripped stock, intended to be refinished, of course.

TSP
 

HELP! What is TSP? Thanks, Tom

Here is a link to the previous discussion about removing oil from a stock, I thought there was some good information to be found in it :corn::
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...=Strength+Guns

TSP. TriSodiumPhospate. Powdered laundry detergent. I beleave it is the same ingreadent that use to be in tide.