oil removal from stock.
Patrick, I have had some experience trying to remove oil from an oil soaked stock. You may have seen my references to the "boathouse gun" and it was a prime example fo an oil soaked stock. When I first received the gun, someone had spray painted the entire gun black...good paint job as there were no runs. After I remove the black paint with an aircraft paint stripper I found that the stock had quite a bit of soaked in oil. I tried many of the conventional methods...acetone soaking, paint thinner soaking, more paint remover, acetone mixed with whiteing compound. ...no good results. I was working on the stock one day and stopped to do another chore and as I passed by my truck, I placed the stock in the bed of my truck. When I came back 30-45 minutes later the stock was soaking wet with the oil that had leached out of the stock. I immediately wiped it down with an acetone soaked rag and put it back in the bed of my truck. I was able to remove all of the oil from the stock in one afternoon by this method. Now, bear in mind that I live in the Tampa, Florida area and it was rather warm that day but, the heat process works and I have had no problem with the finish on the stock. By the way, the "boat" shot a 25 in the Parker-Smith hammergun challenge at the Southern this year so the oil removal method did not hamper the functions of the shotgun.. Jim Garrett
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