bogie
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Make sure your ol' lady ain't home... Throw an old towel (one from the back of the "guest closet") over the drain in the bathtub to make sure nothing goes down the drain. Turn your water heater up to "kill all the children in the village" level. Have a beer.
Disassemble the rifle. Put the little pieces in a strainer, and put the strainer in a pan of boiling water. Pour out the water when it gets gunky, put new in, and when it boils, and gets gunky, pour it out too... Repeat until it doesn't get gunky. Lay the pieces out on one of those guest towels, and give 'em a spritz with some penetrating oil (kroil, WD-40, whatever... if the towels are pink, kroil is a good choice).
Now, with the big parts out of the stocks, and in the tub, get the shower massager, turn it from "intense throbbing pleasure" to "stabbing molten icepicks," and start stripping the pieces. You may have to stop occasionally, both for steam to clear, and water to drain through the towel. Then you can rescue the small bits you forgot to grab earlier.
Get all the gunk off. Try to to curse too much when you (a) burn yourself on the 190 degree water; (b) break your nose walking into the edge of the door in the fog; and (c) notice that last year's wallpaper job is now on the floor...
When all gunk is off, coat the wood with linseed oil, and the metal all goes on the guest towels for the oil.
Now tidy up. And throw all the beer cans away. Leave hastily scrawled note about being called to Cleveland for business while you were redecorating her bathroom, and you'll fix it when you get home, and leave for your best bachelor bud's sofa for a day or so.
Disassemble the rifle. Put the little pieces in a strainer, and put the strainer in a pan of boiling water. Pour out the water when it gets gunky, put new in, and when it boils, and gets gunky, pour it out too... Repeat until it doesn't get gunky. Lay the pieces out on one of those guest towels, and give 'em a spritz with some penetrating oil (kroil, WD-40, whatever... if the towels are pink, kroil is a good choice).
Now, with the big parts out of the stocks, and in the tub, get the shower massager, turn it from "intense throbbing pleasure" to "stabbing molten icepicks," and start stripping the pieces. You may have to stop occasionally, both for steam to clear, and water to drain through the towel. Then you can rescue the small bits you forgot to grab earlier.
Get all the gunk off. Try to to curse too much when you (a) burn yourself on the 190 degree water; (b) break your nose walking into the edge of the door in the fog; and (c) notice that last year's wallpaper job is now on the floor...
When all gunk is off, coat the wood with linseed oil, and the metal all goes on the guest towels for the oil.
Now tidy up. And throw all the beer cans away. Leave hastily scrawled note about being called to Cleveland for business while you were redecorating her bathroom, and you'll fix it when you get home, and leave for your best bachelor bud's sofa for a day or so.