Stripping Stocks With Oven Cleaner?

[Carter]

Whats the best oven cleaner for stripping old rifle stocks?

TIA,

Nick C

[Fluffy Bunny]

My wife!!

[bstrdmissed]

My wife!!

LOL

[Raygun]

Why would you want to strip stocks with oven cleaner.

Why not use paint/laquer stripper.

ATB
Ray.

[bstrdmissed]

Why would you want to strip stocks with oven cleaner.

Why not use paint/laquer stripper.

ATB
Ray.

Thats all he could find under the sink

[Raygun]

Fair enough.



ATB
Ray.

[ora8i]

You really want to soak you stock in caustic???

For the really uptight

Sand of the finish of (sadly it is the best way)

for the rest of us.

Nitromors


Ora

[Raygun]

I expect you can use whatever you want.

A word of warning though.
Make sure you get every trace of whatever you use to strip the original finish off the stock, removed from the stock.

If you don't you can seriously mess up any finish, oil or otherwise you put on afterwards.
It's a shame to see all that hard work marred by chemicals seeping back out of the wood.

ATB
Ray.

[greenshoots]

i used paint and varnish remover from b+q on my marlin's woodwork takes of 5 coats non toxic no fumes water soluble no skin burns and no ventilation so good did the job on the dinning room table wife did not bat an eyelid (she thought i was polishing wood)...

viv

[Forth]

Whats the best oven cleaner for stripping old rifle stocks?

Well, Keira Knightly sure looked up to it with the rubber gloves on in a picture link posted by (afaicr) Bob Roberts the other night, though some also felt she had the physique a ramrod.... hmmmm, multi-role female... Swiss Army Wife?

[Bob Roberts]

Well, Keira Knightly sure looked up to it with the rubber gloves on in a picture link posted by (afaicr) Bob Roberts/Benjamin the other night, though some also felt she had the physique a ramrod.... hmmmm, multi-role female... Swiss Army Wife?

[andy_scouser]

The first shot gun stock i did, I used oven cleaner.... never used it since, nitromoors all the time.

[Lash13]

I have stripped lots of stocks and the best system I have found is Nitromors and a stanley knife blade...then fine sandpaper to finish.
Lee

[kevG]

nitromores and fine wire wool,then cleaned down with white spirits.

kevG

[RossB]

Oven cleaner is too caustic for most gunstock stripping needs.
It comes into its own with old military riflestocks.
They can have from 50 - 100 years of soaked in gun oil, vaseline/petrolatum, or cosmoline.
In a suitable vat, submerge the old stock (use weights as required) in warm/hot water into which a pound of caustic soda or oven cleaner has been dissolved.
Remove after a few hours and rinse with diluted vinegar.
Oil will continue to weep out of the wood but in quantities which can now be cleaned up with mineral spirits.
I have found it best to use oil finishes on old military stocks.
The old gun oil/preservative may lift varnishes.