White Kerosene is best. Diesel and gasoline both work. Get the Cosmoline off, then clean with your choice of gun cleaner. For wooden furniture, wipe all you can off, heat with hair drier or put out in hot sun and keep wiping. Time consuming, but limits damage to wood. Eventually, a good degreaser, I like Zep, applied between heating until its stops weeping Cosmoline. Good luck.
If the coating is really thick/heavy, I would start-out by melting-off as much as could with heat and finishing the job with a mineral spirits bath.What’s the best way to get cosmoline off a gun? ...
Will the kerosene,gasoline,or mineral spirits affect the finish of the gun? It’s blued.
View attachment 957161 Thanks everyone for the advice. Wasn’t too keen on the gas smell so I went with the boiling water trick(I also had an old stock pot to use). Took it all right off.