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[ssgross]

What is the texture? cosmoline can become quite firm with a hard waxy texture with age.

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So many different compounds. Best to leave the mess as is.

The better way :
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[Singer B]

What is the texture? cosmoline can become quite firm with a hard waxy texture with age.

Very smooth in some spots and hard peanut butter in others. I've never seen this in my other Mosin rifles, but you can never tell what the heck the Russians did!

[ssgross]

Very smooth in some spots and hard peanut butter in others.

Test an area not pressed down by the barreled action, like your 6th pic, with a drop of kerosene and an AP brush. If it readily melts away, it's just dried cosmoline or other grease. One of my mosins was still caked with cosmoline inside and out when I got it.

[Singer B]

Test an area not pressed down by the barreled action, like your 6th pic, with a drop of kerosene and an AP brush. If it readily melts away, it's just dried cosmoline or other grease. One of my mosins was still caked with cosmoline inside and out when I got it.

Thanks, I'll try it.