bake at 350 degrees

[Claude Clay]

Anyone have information or experience with guns--poly/stainlesss/alum/blued, that have been in hot (about 350 degrees) contained metal enclosure for about an hour? Plastic cases melted but the foam, which mostly dissappeared, seems to have kept the melted plastic off of the metal. Special cleaning? Replace springs ( grips-hogue & wood seem ok).........whatever? Any help my friend & I would muchly appreciate.

 

[average_shooter]

Sounds like there is an interesting story behind this one...

I have seen a firearm that had been in a similar situation. An almost complete breakdown to all the little parts was required to get melted plastic out of springs and small moving bits. The small amounts of plastic and rubber really gummed up the works. After everything was clean and reassembled a dry-fire function test showed everything working well enough.

 

[kd7nqb]

mythbusters just did a gun in the oven test, did you try and re-test their results? Ok assuming that there is an more elaborate story than that we would love to hear. Frankly I am not a gun smith but the metal should not be effected by 350degrees, it does not seem hot enough to loose temper. Its plastic you need to worry about any sort of seal is probably gone.

 

[kd7nqb]

I hate to be the one to post 2x in a row. But I would love to see some more knowledgeable replies than I.

 

[DMK]

I've baked many steel guns at 325deg to cure the Gunkote that I applied to them. You've got to get guns a lot hotter than that to harm them.

I wouldn't even think the springs would be affected anywhere under 400 degrees.

On the other hand, I tried baking AR furniture at around 120ish (had a thermometer problem) to cure Alumahyde II and it melted the tube inside the buttstock. Interestingly though, the handguards and pistol grip came out perfect.

 

[Wheeler44]

OK my guess is the OP hid a hangun in the oven and then turned the oven on to preheat.

 

[RoadkingLarry]

hid a hangun in the oven and then turned the oven

I used to work with a guy that came to work one day and admitted that, except in his case his little cheapo semi-auto suffered because it got hot enough to have cooked off the ammo.