Conservation 101: Stop the decay! 

Just tried this in the shop. Great idea, thanks

@@marknovak8255 glad you liked the idea. I can't count how many various uses I've gotten from 10 cent garage sale feeler gauge sets.

I resorted to using the spine of a very fine jigsaw blade sandwiched with 400 grit. I just cleaned up 2 banged up screws that came with my CMP 1911a1. 90% better. Thanks!

I'll tell you what... its EXTREMELY nerve racking to tear down a rather nice milsurp (the first rifle I've ever taken apart was my 1943 Type 99 Arisaka). But once you get the rifle torn apart and learn how it works and pay attention to all these little tricks Mark is talking about (again.. these aren't tutorials, I went into my Arisaka knowing damn well any mistake was my fault and my fault alone) you get a newfound respect for these old gats and boy.. that Arisaka came out BEAUTIFULLY.

New Yankee wood shop and Mark Novak would be all I watch

I agree, British TV is nothing but propaganda news and useless reality shows for stupid people, RU-vid is where real entertainment is for me now

Completely strip the slide, boil, then card with 0000 steel wool. Cure in non detergent motor oil, reassemble.

I can relate. Have fun

Ditto Added to my list

GREAT

Well I have two 1944 dodges, a WC51 and a WC54, both were in Norway through the 1950's to 1960's, and the WC54 was rebuilt by the US in Germany in 1954. I have the day the chassis were built from the Chrysler Museum. I have owned them some 20 odd years and serviced them, they both run beatuifully. So what is original?

I had to use one on a WW2 1903 Springfield by remington that at some point every metal part was chromed from muzzle too butt plate. And it was flaking off like crazy. now its getting cerakoting because no one near me knows how to parkeriz a gun

That must have been a parade rifle

@@donmurrin5269 probably but have no solid proof of it the bid house said it was a Baltimore ravens parade rifle but that there word with no paperwork or raven logos on it what so ever

Folks must be getting older when they look at the shop as an organized, well equipped place... and other folks are referring to it as 'old school'...

John Doe never said the shop was organized or disorganized. The meaning was it has the feel of an old school program. I think it’s awesome.

@@notjoecheez1 I gathered the same from your observations from the outset. Very tranquil and easy environment!

I’d say he’s more like Bob Villa, but the show would be “This Old Gun”

I was lucky enough to inherit 6 S&W K frames from my father, he bought them from the Kansas City PD years ago. It is kinda interesting, in the days of buying Thomsons from a catalog, when there were full auto shootouts regularly, a six shot revolver was a perfectly useable sidearm. But now Every podunk PD is armed with 18 shot "wonder nines" and they are still claiming they are "outgunned." I think today's LEOs could take a long lesson from John Henry Fitz Gerald, or Frank Hamer. I carry a Colt New Army modified into a modern interpretation of a "Fitz Special" (tuned, polished action, snub barrel, but I did leave the trigger guard intact) and with a speed loader in my pocket, I feel like I am ready for whatever comes my way in a dark alley. Shooting a wheelgun forces you to slow down and stop dumping ammo. These modern plastic pistols are the reason you read about officers firing 70 or 80 times at a suspect. Police officers firing that many times at a single target in an urban setting is inexcusable. If they are shooting that many times, they should have fallen back and grabbed a carbine so they could actually hit their target. But anyway...that rant aside, my father paid 200$ for all six of the S&Ws and could have bought 18 more at the time. To bad those days are over, I'm not sure what departments do with their unwanted firearms these days, but I don't think they have "garage sales" where they sell off old guns anymore.

@@jacktheaviator4938 they sell them off to dealers. You can find them all over the place online. Aimsurplus, jg sales, classic firearms, ect. At discount prices. Most of them are in .40 cal though. Some in 9mm, and every so often you'll see one in .45 come up.

Lamp Oil frequently has additives like fragrances in the US. I’m sure The UK and EU have something like our MSDS aka Material Safety Data Sheets that will tell you what a particular brand of lamp oil contains. Another comment on this video stated in the US winter formula Diesel /Heating Oil is Kerosene while summer formula includes paraffin to decrease engine wear. Jet A is jet engine fuel and should be available to purchase at smaller airfields that service business jet and turbo-props(jet connected to propeller). Good luck!

Thank You

@@marknovak8255 One more subscriber.

Life IS too short for cheap booze or cigars for sure

I have the same issue on a mp40, I knew about using fine steel wool 0000 with vaseline oil, but not boiling the pieces with water before to convert the red oxyde into black oxyde much to learn before trying

That’s how it used to be done. You got room and board and were free labour but you also got to learn under a master. Now you go into debt for 20 years at a school and learn about 1/2 of what you need to know and get paid just enough to keep the debt collectors at bay. And just for fun, school loans can’t receive bankruptcy protection.

What is paraffin wax called in england? Or does adding 'wax' at the end differentiate it enough?

@@TheCheesyBanana you've answered the question!

Too bad it can't really be used to conserve and own firearms in those 2 countries.....you know, because British and French subjects, I mean citizens, aren't trusted by their governments to own such dangerous killing machines, and they must be protected from themselves! Unless you're a criminal, then you can have as many guns as you wish and can illegally afford!

@@logancurl9526 tbh in Britain guns are rare even in the criminal's hands. In France hunting is common, so are shooting clubs. In our hamlet of 15 houses in rural France I think half have rifles /shotguns, not sure about pistols.

I hate to be the voice of doom. But that day is coming. In order to protect us from ourselves and to eliminate unsuitable content, any and all content concerning firearms is likely to be eliminated from all venues online. Truthfully, I can see the day coming where any material concerning firearms, in any format, is going to be banned and only military, law enforcement and state licensed individuals will be allowed to purchase or possess firearms related materials. It will all be deemed as Restricted Materials. We are headed down that path and MUST do everything in our power to prevent it NOW !!! The time to fight these things is now, not once the anti gun zealots have latched onto a particular topic and corrupted the discussion with falsehoods, lies, fear mongering, celebrity's and big money. The second amendment is heavily under attack and the time to counter this, and do so with radical ideas and approaches of our own is now. So once again the question posed is " If not now, when ? If not me, who? "

@@bobgarr6246 I agree with you 1000% sir! I try to inform everyone I can about firearms, gun safety, the attack on our Constitution and especially our 2nd Amendment. I try to answer any questions they may have with good, honest info with proof/sources if at all possible. I also invite all of them to a range trip to learn about and fire a gun if they are willing, or only for them to observe if they don't feel comfortable shooting for any reason. After giving them as much info and knowledge that I can, and hopefully some experience shooting if I'm real lucky, I lay the truth on them: There's ONLY ONE REAL REASON that any person, or group, would want/attempt to take law abiding citizens firearms (even if they claim to only want to take CERTAIN firearms, because we know they are never satisfied) or make it hard for law abiding citizens to purchase, carry, store, or use firearms and/or ammunition. And that reason is, because they wish and/or plan to do things, bad things, that they know will cause good, law abiding people to shoot them! Plain and simple, no way around it!

do you happen to know which anvil episode it was that had a list near the end of the video of all the videos that disuss conversion process

@@crazychicken7125 i screenshotted it, 013, 035, 036, 049, 055, 064

@@MrJerry160 thanks

Then again, to be fair, most of the items that have decay and neglect related damages over time began having those problems in a time before there was historical value associated with the item. How many crummy AR-15s do you guys think are currently rotting away in closets, or will be found by frustrated collectors fifty years from now? Probably more than we'd like to admit.

I have used diesel fuel in a pinch. But the smell is MUCH worse. I would recommend using it outside, or else your workspace will smell like a truck stop park lot for a couple weeks

I work at an airport and 200% they WILL NOT sell you kerosene. Not today anyway. You may be able to find kerosene in the form of Zippo lighter fluid maybe, worst case order it baby

@@xxIONBOMBxx I’ve never been to an airport that was not happy to overcharge me for any fuel.

Outstanding. Keep doing that.........

@@marknovak8255 To me it seems like converting red oxide to black oxide is just rust bluing without adding the new layers of rust. To then say that conversion is NOT bluing seems disingenuous. That said, I am all for rebluing any rifle, I personally would not hesitate to reblue General Custer's .50 cal rifle from the little big horn, if I owned it. Looking at a historically correct turd is not my thing.

@@hardr0ck68 ok, bubba

I have read some stories from old oilmen, and the VERY early "refineries" that they used to produce kerosene for lighting, which most people don't know was the first refined commercial petroleum product. The tapped the distillation process, and drew of what was basically dirty gasoline, to use for lighting and heating in the refinery. I can't even imagine working in a refinery that was lit by gasoline fired lamps and all of the heat for the process came from open flame fed by pressurized gasoline.

that is very cool, I welded two old C02 tanks together to the same effect and just run on a modified propane burner.

I Also would like to know the answers to such questions!

Yeah, I DO need to do that one. Arrrggghhh

Remove polyurethane with paint stripper made for polyurethane. Takes off the urethane without damaging the wood.

Shims may still be available and are actually quite cheap. You may need some other small parts which can also be cheap but if you do it all yourself you will have lots of “useless” left over bits. Maybe check out some community channels or trade sites as you may be able to pick up someone else’s leftovers which may complete you gun. (Hand fitting means that their gun was probably out of spec in a different way then yours so their left overs may be good for you.

well, I boiled my SMLE metal parts in water for 45 minutes to an hour and followed Mark's instructions, and I am so blown away and HAPPY that I did. It is amazing to 1: see how much crud came off the pieces (dirt, oil, cosmoline, and RUST) and when I used 0000 bronze wool and gun oil, the rust came off, and 2: the finish came back out and the surface rust was gone. This baby is going to pass inspection from a platoon sergeant by golly! I am amazed. A bonus is I get to use my camp chef burner for something else besides tailgating at FB and Lacrosse games! Thanks Mark.

@@wolfpack4694 Good report, will be following up on my milsurp

It would be interesting to follow that ‘98 through its future movements. It would also be interesting to determine the effect a legitimate conservation has on the value of a collectible, all other things being equal.

DO IT! I wish I could go back in time and not listened to the ones who told me there was no future in it. Do IT!

Make sure you take a business 101 course also. It will make your life much easier.

@@marknovak8255 thankyou, ill put that on my list and look into that. See what my options are. Thankyou mark and Stefan. Have a great day both of you.

Wipe it down, blow out kerosene, oil with a non detergent (lawnmower) oil. Only necessary to use non detergent oil the first time, after a few days the finish will "harden up" and after that any gun oil will be just fine.

This guy looks nothing like chris farley what are you on about

His Voice! You barely see him but the voice is almost spot on!@@dylanpaul7371