Removing rust from guns

[Playa]

A friend of mine stored his guns at his neighbors house while he was moving into a new house. He assumed the neighbor had stored them in his safe. Turns out they were just stored in the loft of their metal storage building. After cleaning all the dust off all of them are pitted with rust on the finish.

What's the best way to remove the rust?

[IowaHunter]

Ruh roh - time for new friends.

I'm interested in the responses because it would put more use guns in the realm of purchasing.

[Cajun Blake]

0000 steel wool and some type of oil lubricant : a Break Free, Rem Oil, etc....

If pitting is bad, then parkerizing or cerakote may be considered

[JustinJ]

0000 steel wool and some type of oil lubricant : a Break Free, Rem Oil, etc....

If pitting is bad, then parkerizing or cerakote may be considered

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[careybirdwell]

0000 steel wool and some type of oil lubricant : a Break Free, Rem Oil, etc....

If pitting is bad, then parkerizing or cerakote may be considered

I always wondered in you have a gun that has some pitting on it, does parkering or cerakote would cover it.

[CRT]

I noticed my shield, which is my concealed carry, has some rust on it?!? It kinda surprised me actually!

[tvc184]

0000 steel wool and some type of oil lubricant : a Break Free, Rem Oil, etc....

If pitting is bad, then parkerizing or cerakote may be considered

... and there you have it, making sure that it is 0000.

[Playa]

0000 steel wool and some type of oil lubricant : a Break Free, Rem Oil, etc....

If pitting is bad, then parkerizing or cerakote may be considered

Ok so after reading up on this, this was actually NOT recommended. Dry buffing with fine copper wool was the recommendation.

Reason was the rust is still abrasive, the lubricant prevents the abrasive from being fully removed. Dry buffing allowed the fine dust to be blown off.

The copper wool is softer than the guns finish.

Ended up using a barrel brush and got most of it off & then wiped it down with Barricade

[Draco]

Now that it is off and to keep it off, wax the guns with a car wax with carnuba in it. I have to wax a couple of old side by sides that I have and it works great.

[mavrick]

Go find some Blue Wonder it is a gun cleaning product. Rub it on it will remove the rust. This stuff works for surface rust. Then you may have to buff a little after use.

[PYBUCK]

Pencil eraser works pretty good

[Mister Bubba's bulletman]

I watched a pawnshop employee "clean" off the rusty surface of an old lever action Winchester with a quarter.

Several times I told him not to do that because of the further damage he was doing but he just smirked and kept doing it.

It hurt me to watch.

[dropem]

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