You're right Bruce! The problem is that all these things are fine for the skilled but it's when the butchers get their hands on this stuff............

At my sons school Cadet Unit, I take their No8 rifles into work every year and either strip, clean and assemble and test or ask the good Armourters to do it. One year I left the woodwork in the school Armoury with a bottle of linseed and some sheets of scotchbrite and very fine wire wool and said to the man in charge that it'd be a good idea if a couple of the shooting team could clean the wood down and linseed it. BIG mistake No1! The handguards were all rounded off, the front band slots smoothed down to the bottom......... god..... horrendous!

Mind you, some of the rifles in the hands of my shooting club friends are just as bad!

They do a special scotchbrite for cleaning the OG lenses of the SUSAT sight too. Well, they do at Warminster!