After I got the magazine housing and bolt out and dried off I put the receiver into the pot and propped it up. In just a few minutes even more cosmoline came out. I let it sit for a few minutes then grabbed a coffee cup and flipped the rifle over, over the top of the pot and started pouring boiling hot water down the bore.
After running about 9 cups of boiling water down the bore , the receiver was just too hot to hold anymore even with an oven glove. So I laid it down on the counter then ran 2 patches through with my jag. The first patch was just covered in cosmoline, the second was actually pretty clean.
Right now the action is sitting after being sprayed down with Breakfree CLP. Tomorrow I will go back over it on a detail clean with my dental tools and tooth picks.
The stock is also just filled with cosmoline and it is getting it's own treatment. It is now filled with kitty litter, wrapped in newspaper and is on the dahsboard of my suburban. With our forecast for tomorrow saying we can expect 90 degree temps, it should get rather hot in the burn tomorrow to melt out a lot of that cosmoline which the kitty litter should absorb.
I'm hoping I'll have this rifle back together and I'll be able to shoot it this weekend. I hope.
But we will see.
As long as it doesn't rain before this weekend, the other property should be dry enough for the kids and I to go over and get in some shooting. I got them a hundred rounds of .22LR and I still haven't shot the Franken-15 yet and I have 200 round for it's initial test.
But now I need a new pot for my turkey fryer.
ETA: 2 pics of my cleaning earlier while the sun was still out.
The barreled action draining after half a can of brake cleaner
The magazine housing/trigger guard after the other half a can of brake cleaner.
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