crazysarge16
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Recently, my dad has been helping his sister clean out her house. To say she is a hoarder would be putting it nicely. She hasn’t thrown anything away since the 1980s. She’s been like that for awhile, always refusing family offers to help clean out the house until recently. Sad part is she is only doing it now cause the daughter she took care of her whole life due to physical/mental disabilities has passed away. She went to look for some paperwork, couldn’t find it and at that point realized she needed help. My father and his two brothers agreed to help out and pitched in and got a dumpster. They’ve been working for days getting stuff cleaned out of the house. On the plus side, a lot of it inside the house is stuff brand new in the bags.
They knew she had a few guns inside the house because her late husband used to hunt with them. They were expecting to find a few older shotguns and 22 rifles, which they did.
Probably the worse is this 870. It was my late uncles main hunting shotgun for awhile according to my dad. They hadn’t seen it in years, and it’s probably the worse out of everything.
My dad asked me what he should do in attempt to try to clean it up. I told him first to heavily disinfect it, since we have no clue what was in that house. After that, to spray it heavily with ballistol and let it sit overnight. Come back next day with some paper towels and just wipe it off to start.
Im trying to talk my dad into doing an electroylsis tank, since that would be the best method to remove the majority of it in my mind. We had one at the house I had built but think it got tossed.
It looks like the barrel has been cut, since it looks uneven.
Once he has the majority of the thick rust off, take some 0000 steel wool soaked in oil and start slowing going over the whole thing to try to get the rest off.
End goal is to at least try to get it cleaned off and maybe serviceable. My aunt doesn’t yet know what she’ll do with them, my dad may end up with it as payment for all his help. But for time being, just not trying to drop a lot of money into it.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
If my dad ends up with it, I’m planning on taking it to a local guy to get more of a professional rust removal and then having it cerakoted black.
They knew she had a few guns inside the house because her late husband used to hunt with them. They were expecting to find a few older shotguns and 22 rifles, which they did.
Probably the worse is this 870. It was my late uncles main hunting shotgun for awhile according to my dad. They hadn’t seen it in years, and it’s probably the worse out of everything.
My dad asked me what he should do in attempt to try to clean it up. I told him first to heavily disinfect it, since we have no clue what was in that house. After that, to spray it heavily with ballistol and let it sit overnight. Come back next day with some paper towels and just wipe it off to start.
Im trying to talk my dad into doing an electroylsis tank, since that would be the best method to remove the majority of it in my mind. We had one at the house I had built but think it got tossed.
It looks like the barrel has been cut, since it looks uneven.
Once he has the majority of the thick rust off, take some 0000 steel wool soaked in oil and start slowing going over the whole thing to try to get the rest off.
End goal is to at least try to get it cleaned off and maybe serviceable. My aunt doesn’t yet know what she’ll do with them, my dad may end up with it as payment for all his help. But for time being, just not trying to drop a lot of money into it.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
If my dad ends up with it, I’m planning on taking it to a local guy to get more of a professional rust removal and then having it cerakoted black.
