Chuck
NES Member
Apologies to Shakespeare.
I finally had time to do a good detail cleaning of recently aquired Mauser 98K. While whipping around a flat metal area (bolt head?) on the left side of the stock, forward of the trigger guard, what seemed like grimy black metal suddenly showed itself to be REALLY grimy metal of a more shiny variety! Cleaned other side, yup, same thing happened. Now I could see what looked like the threads of a bolt. Both bolt and nut (?) were of this shinny, nickel like, metal.
Did I just scrub off decades of crime? Or is the metal loosing some kind of coating? I think the former if only because I can see some kind of marking on the bolt head. This didn't happen with any other metal pieces.
Thanks from a MilSurp newbie!
-= chuck
I finally had time to do a good detail cleaning of recently aquired Mauser 98K. While whipping around a flat metal area (bolt head?) on the left side of the stock, forward of the trigger guard, what seemed like grimy black metal suddenly showed itself to be REALLY grimy metal of a more shiny variety! Cleaned other side, yup, same thing happened. Now I could see what looked like the threads of a bolt. Both bolt and nut (?) were of this shinny, nickel like, metal.
Did I just scrub off decades of crime? Or is the metal loosing some kind of coating? I think the former if only because I can see some kind of marking on the bolt head. This didn't happen with any other metal pieces.
Thanks from a MilSurp newbie!
-= chuck