Ever gotten Gun Scrubber on your syntho stock?

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My synthetic stocks fitted to my 870Exp are now uglier than plastic. Primarily the buttstock is black and stained gray in a dripping, runny fashion.
Anyone having similar experiences?
 
Rub a little oil on it and see if the finish evens out. The gunscrubber is stripping some of the oil/plastic/polymer/whatever out of the stock. John
 
No, but i got cheap carb cleaner on my 870 express stock and stripped the finish right off.
 
Sorry about your stock sitch, but I've always wanted to learn a good method for removing Remington's stock finish...sounds like carb cleaner will do the trick
 
Get some gunscrubber on those neato coolo tactical hi viz followers everybody likes so much and see what happens. A session with a mallet and some sort of long metal bar is usually the result. Ask me how I know....then ask if any of my guns have plastic followers!
 
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Get some gunscrubber on those neato coolo tactical hi viz followers everybody likes so much and see what happens. A session with a mallet and some sort of long metal bar is usually the result. Ask me how I know....then ask if any of my guns have plastic followers!
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They expand? I have probably gotten a small amount on my Wilson follower at some point.....methinks I'll be checking on feeding reliability now. Thank you.
 
They don't just expand, oh that it were that simple! Some of them turn into a molten glob of plastic that then welds itself inside your mag tube requiring a mallet and rod to dislodge. Of course if the gun is loaded at the time it provides more fun and excitement.

The real fun part begins as you try to clean the streaky plastic residue out of the tube. The follower that this happened to wasn't a Wilson but I decided it wasn't a chance I was willing to take anyway.

Lessons learned: 1. never use gunscrubber on plastic, 2. never loan shotgun to brother in law who thinks hosing it down with gunscrubber is the same thing as cleaning it, 3. use metal follower in serious duty shotguns.:rolleyes:
 
I am really surprised to hear of this. I have never used Gunscrubber but I do use Brake cleaner from the auto parts stores and I have been told it is the same thing.

I blast everything with it, Glocks,Remington shotguns with synthetic stocks,etc and it has never harmed anything. Maybe it is milder than real gunscrubber.
 
It probably has more to do with the composition of the plastic, with some plastics being less reactive to solvents than others...just my guess. I don't recall warnings on gunscrubber NOT to use on Glocks and similar. Who knows what perfidious petroleum derivative the Choate followers are made of...recycled milk jugs?
 
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