SILICONE OIL DAMAGE Part2

[Paddy_SP]

Would you like to sell me the remains of the gun?

[John2]

Would you like to sell me the remains of the gun?

My part tin of SILICONE OIL is up for grabs !

[beth]

Sheeeeeesh.


B.

[freewind]

Thats a very cautionry tale mate . Not only has this cost you a lot of dough , you`re never going to be allowed to forget this by your shooting "buds".

Andy

[laity]

Craig

I am very glad that this matter is sorted,i know this has caused some "ribbing" of sorts and that will not stop...for a very long time .
Seems Ben is the "Man" and the part he played was top notch. Its always good to hear of a quality service and a decent bloke.

Long live Ben T and Son

laity

[Thamesides]

This might sound stupid & with nothing to loose.Could you flame the surfaces so as to burn off any oil on the metals.Maybe give it a wipe with petrol.With my fishing reels I drop the bearings in petrol/lighter fluid to clean the oil out.Otherwise coating all parts with a degreaser.Anything might be worth a try.Steve

[Hurricane]

You can get products for removing silicone, try your local car paint supliers.

[sccs]

You can get products for removing silicone, try your local car paint supliers.

yea a bit of clutch/brake cleaner will get almost anything off.

thinners will also do a prety good job of most stuff.

i use nothing but molykote on my rapid.

[bengarzy]

You can get products for removing silicone, try your local car paint supliers.

There is nothing this side of red hot that moves this stuff, I know i have had it on brake discs before and the only way is to regrind the surfaces repeatedly, not something you can do on the small mechanism we are talking about.

Ben

[Snooper601]

You can get products for removing silicone, try your local car paint supliers.

Unfortunatly the products they sell don't remove it, it causes the problem called 'Fish Eyes' on new paint, they actually add more of it so that the whole paint job has it on!!

Once a paint gun has 'Fish Eyes' eliminator used in it it's !

There seems very little out there to remove silicon oil contamination from anything

Cheers

[bengarzy]

This might sound stupid & with nothing to loose.Could you flame the surfaces so as to burn off any oil on the metals.Maybe give it a wipe with petrol.With my fishing reels I drop the bearings in petrol/lighter fluid to clean the oil out.Otherwise coating all parts with a degreaser.Anything might be worth a try.Steve

Its far to late for that, no degreaser will remove silicone oil either, its also imperviouse to the sort of heat that you can get to without damage to the action.
I reamed polished and repeatedly degreased but after a few cycles it just starts all over again until the anodised and brass surfaces almost fuse together.
Remember this was a brand new rifle and it was pretty well destroyed by this evil s**t which has no business being any where near anything mechanical.
I am useing the unaffected parts for spares and have told the owner to write to the makers/distibutors to inform them of the damge to his rifle.

Ben