just for fun, has anyone ever heard of coating the inside of a barel with boiled linseed oil to prevent fouling/ rust? would this even work, given time to dry well, or would it just turn into a gummed up/ impossible to scrubb out mess? :idunno:
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coating barrel with boiled linseed oil?
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That sounds about right. :wink:Cap Smacker said:
paulvallandigham
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Raw linseed oil( Not boiled) makes a good lube for use with drill bits when drilling ramrod holes into wood stock blanks. Other than that, I would not recommend it for use doing anything else with a MLer.
It would certainly never dry, and it would GUM Up the works, as you say, terribly. You would have to use a good alcohol based solvent( denatured alcohol, Kerosene, Gasoline! etc) to get that linseed oil out of a barrel, along with all the Black powder residue it would hold in the barrel.
It would certainly never dry, and it would GUM Up the works, as you say, terribly. You would have to use a good alcohol based solvent( denatured alcohol, Kerosene, Gasoline! etc) to get that linseed oil out of a barrel, along with all the Black powder residue it would hold in the barrel.
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My Son just refinished a .22 rimfire and coated the outside with linseed oil. It has protected the barrel nicely and dried hard. But I think it would be a mistake to use it inside the bore. Just my 2 cents!
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Bannermans had a large selection of "field pickup" civil war muskets at their Island fortress
back in the 50's that were all dipped in a barrel of linseed oil as a preservative. Apparently that was the cosmoline of the day. It glued everything together and was a real PITA to remove but was pretty good at preventing rust. After 100 years of pretty much outdoor storage (sheltered from rain only) both metal and stocks were in pretty good shape after the crud was removed.
back in the 50's that were all dipped in a barrel of linseed oil as a preservative. Apparently that was the cosmoline of the day. It glued everything together and was a real PITA to remove but was pretty good at preventing rust. After 100 years of pretty much outdoor storage (sheltered from rain only) both metal and stocks were in pretty good shape after the crud was removed.
