Restoration of an old antique

[beekeeper]

Some time ago I wrote a post about my use of an electronic bore cleaner.
I thought I would elaborate on it a little.
Please note from the start I am not a very good photographer and in truth did not think anyone would be interested so only took a few photos.
I saw an advertisement for 71/84 Mauser barreled receivers for $7.95 each on a web site and if you bought $75.00 worth of anything you got free shipping.
So I bought 10 of them.
Of the 10 I bought 6 barrels were good to excellent and the others sewer pipes.
Having to clean them in some manner I built the tanks I will try to describe.

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Having used an electronic bore cleaner to clean bores on various old milsurp rifles I built a tank I could completely immerse the barreled receivers in to clean the outside
What I came up with is a 5 foot piece of plastic sewer pipe capped on one end with a 1/2 inch valve glued into the cap for drainage.
The rods are simple black iron rods with copper wire attached.
The rust you see is from the last rifles I did.
Filled with water and 3 cups of Arm and Hammer washing soda the parts are completely immersed in the water and a cell phone charger hooked up to the leads to make it work

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To clean the many small parts I built a smaller tank that I used a copper wire cross grid to attach the parts to.

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After the barreled receivers came out of the large tank and were rubbed down with steel wool they looked like this

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Since I could not find a stock anywhere I built stocks from scratch using pictures I found on the internet as a guide.
The wood is common store bought walnut (bannister grade),
The only power tools were a saber saw to cut out the basic shape and a router to cut the magazine trough as I could not make a chisel small enough that would work.
The final pictures are the completed rifles (I made 2). It took 2 years of looking for parts and my own labors.
I shoot one with black powder and the other with smokeless.
Fartherest I have shot them is 855 yards and with good accuracy

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[akuser47]

Great work on the guns. Love your home made immersion tanks. For electric rust removal. I need to build somthing like this. For tools n such. Lol

[RBHarter]

I'd love to get into a gig like that .

Nice work on those.

[62chevy]

Wow you did a great job on those stocks !!!

[Ranch Dog]

Outstanding thinking and work!