Nylon 66 home.Now what to do to clean it?

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My son-in-law brought me one that was at his dads house. Totally caked in sand and muck. Go on you tube and there are several good videos that show how to break it down. I used one of the videos to completely separated the plastic stock from the barrel and trigger group. I hosed the plastic stock down with water and dish soap. Cleaned the metal parts with hopps. put it all together with a very like coat of Hopps gun oil. Shot like a dream. A great little 22 until I gave it back to my Son-in-law. He tossed it in the back of his truck and let it rust. Ticked me off! They are great shooters. I hope yours is the tube fed. The one I cleaned was mag fed and needed some adjusting. The mags are temperamental, unreliable and made out of plastic that like to separate along the manufacturing seam.

Good luck, it will be a great rifle once you clean it up.
 
Two things in this thread I must disagree with.
1. WD-40 is the WORST thing anyone can do to a firearm.
The stuff is a paraffin based general lubricant.
It is ok for lubing a squeeky door hinge.
It has no useful function anywhere near a firearm.

2. Lubricating a Nylon 66 with oil.
The rifle was designed to be self luricating and need not be drenched in oil.
There are a couple of metal on metal friction points that can benefit from a dab of grease, other than that, clean the rifle, dry it, shoot it.
 
WD- 40 should be removed, but, it is an useful solvent especially on weapons previously gummed up by old WD-40. WD is an effective solvent on itself and years or 22lr powder residue.

Self lubing or not, it won't function reliably without the removal of 20+ years of soot, lead dust, and the paraffin based wax coated bullet shavings.
 
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I've used WD-40 on many of my guns, both military and civilian, since the 1960s. In fact I've used it at the armory level (M-16s and Model 15s) and never had any problems. The guns have always worked. And I've never had corrosion problems. That WD-40 is somehow bad for guns is just not the case. And it certainly does work on a Nylon 66.

See: http://www.lube1.com/factsmyth.htm
 
I agree with the minimal lube. I only lubed the few parts that seemed to have metal on metal contact. The premise behind the gun was in fact what was stated earlier, self lubricating.
 
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When I was about 12 or 13, I took my dad's nylon 66 apart. It took me a week of trying every night after school until I finally got it.

May I ask what exactly is problematic in reassembly?
I can't remember ever having an issue although I've only had it completely apart maybe 4 or 5 times since the early 60's.

An aluminum arrow makes a great speedloader.

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In the 1960's having seen a Blakeshee quickloader for the Spencer carbines in a book I made up speed loaders from sections of a fallen TV antenna, crushed on one end and drilled on the open end so a bobby pin would pass through and hold rounds in. A couple of the other guys called it cheating! I have some aluminum arrow shafts at the moment I am cutting to length with a tube cutter. I also have some of the ancient Whammo (the hulla hoop and Frisbee folks) plastic tube type speed loaders and one having been crushed in storage for a few years is about to be sacrificed to use the neat little closing device on an aluminum arrow.

Since everyone is going composite arrow these days one can find aluminum shafts for near nothing at yard/garage sales sometimes.

If you are thinking about trying Appleseed with a tube feeder then these would be very handy, especially cut to hold only those eight round reloads.

-kBob
 
The 66 I have has a steel receiver, or a steel cover over the receiver with a dovetail groove.
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On the Nylon 66, the steel is just a sheet metal cover over the one-piece nylon receiver/stock.
 
I have collected 66's for many years. The best deal I ever got on a 66 was one brought to a gun show in a paper bag. Disassembled. Down to every small part. What a deal!
 
After WWII, Savage started using plastic for stocks on their .22 rifles and shotguns. The result was that the woods were full of pieces of brittle plastic from broken stocks.

When Remington introduced the Nylon 66, they had to overcome the dislike of plastic stocks that the Savage experiment had left. So when the Remington salesman showed up with the new product, I made no secret of my distrust of anything like plastic for use on guns. His response was to load the little gun, throw it on the ground and run his big station wagon back and forth over it a dozen or so times, then pick it up and empty the magazine without a hitch.

That made a believer of me and convinced me that there were plastics and then there were plastics, a lesson that caused me to await results instead of jumping on the "plastic junk" bandwagon when the Glock came out.

Jim
 
I bought my 66 at a police auction in Hawaii in the 60s. It was full of gritty beach sand. After removing a couple screws, I heard a spring go "boing". I took it to a gunsmith in a cigar box and a bag.
 
Nylon 66 is my ol man's favorite 22. I do think they are great gun just hated being in a hot squirrel gunfight and loosing count of how many bullets I put in trying to reload in a hurry
 
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