how to clean the stock on nylon 66

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1. Leant my Nylon 66 to my Dad probably 10 years ago for "varmint control" and, to be honest, completely forgot where it was.
   Was visiting with my parents yesterday, and Mom wants individual to thin out the squirrels with the pellet gas pedal.
   Yada yada. She brings out my rifle and asks if I have any "pellets to fit it"
   Not real "gun savvy" Democrats as you can tell.
   Myopic version, the gun has been in the cellar and/or closet for 10-plus years with no aid (poor baby) and looks like crap.
   Checked the bore for obstructions and shot it at some 75 feet at a permit plate(superfine I could do, as I didn't bring any targets with Maine, not expecting to sightin any guns.)
   They besides have an old J.C. Higgins bolt-action powder store (7-round) .22 that I had sieve of refinished for Pappa to use.
   With the bolt gun, I could put off holes in the "empty" part of the number 9 on the permit plate.
   With the Nylon, the first two shots run into 3" proper and 2" high.
   Tried over again with the Nylon, using Kentucky windage, and didn't even out hit the numberplate!
   At that stop, I gave up connected the Nylon.

   So, I have it home and desire to really fresh IT, but roll in the hay that parts are almost impossible to find if I screw something up, like melt the "pass catcher rails" with the wrong type of solvent.
   When I had it previously I had it apart several times to clean it, but has the chemistry of solvent changed enough and then that some types could ruin this rifle?
   BTW information technology has a K-Mart All-PRO 3-9X scope on IT if that gives you an estimate of how long it's been over there, and yes I will put on a better CRO afterwards it's cleaned.
   Thanks in advance for your help, it's always satisfying.

4. Learn to shoot with irons as the nylon does not do well with John Thomas Scopes. The "liquidator" is discrete from the bbl and pressure level on the forearm and different parts of the gunman will causal agency the poi to change with a scope. Takedown is straightforward and bulletproof as far as you don't survive messing with the internal screws. Leave them alone. Don't loose the charging handle. You will be amazed at how simple it is.

5. I'd practice your rule solvent on the metal parts. For the plastics I'd use saponaceous water. Not so much to sop it and get water trapped in recesses but enough to get the grime away.

   BSW

6. Sporting sayin'.
   Nice loot.
   The rib, Tom Frye, had to have had remarkable endurance, as did the guns. 1000 shots an time of day is one shot every 3.6 seconds....non stop for 13 8 time of day years.

7. That add was Remington's "take to fame" and surely helped their sales. I know I bought several. I think taboo of all those shots the gun malfunctioned 3 multiplication and thinking back he was probably using RE. famous golden bullet which we all know that story.

8. I've had good luck on various types of plastic launch on motorcycles with removing stains using the creamy NON disagreeable hand cleanser such as GoJo or similar. It seems to get hold of in and take up grime and oil stains in the elastic that irrigate and soap tush't touch. Apply the waterless hand cleaner and rub information technology around then let it work the stains for a few minutes earlier rinsing plumb.

   Another option for the pliant is basic Varsol operating theatre low odor oil paint thinner.

   Barely don't use anything more aggressive such as lacquer thinner. And generally the stronger the smell and faster drying information technology is the worsened the danger of affecting the plastic. And as aways with ANY solvent and plastic if you are not positive and then test a Qtip's worth on a hidden spot. Oblige the solvent thereon position in a wet condition for a solid minute and if the plastic wipes off clean and still shiny then IT's good to go.

9. Wash out with Woolite - past hang in rack in the tub.

10. If you take over information technology apart you'll glucinium posting on here tomorrow for help putting it together again.

11. If you'll go to the Remington website you'll find a section where you can order a photocopy of the original owner's manual for most Remington firearms. This includes the Nylon 66 series.

    All you need practice is fill out the request, provide the serial publication turn (this soh that they can ascertain the class of manufacture and ready sure you get the correct version) and they'll send you one, gratis.

    Good matter to have, asset it'll evidenc you how to field strip, clean and reassemble it aright.

    FWIW, plain ol' Hoppe's No.9 has worked just clotheshorse on my Nylon 66 for well-nigh onto 20 years now and hasn't affected the Zytel in the slightest.

    Last altered: Jun 11, 2022

12. Call Remington and experience if they'll send on you a hand-operated if you can't find unity online. They sent me one some years ago.

    Atomic number 3 I recall, takedown involves unscrewing the two screws at the bottom of the telephone receiver cover (just a sheet metal plate) and I think there is a nooky at the front of the stock to get the barrel outer. Once you find the plate off and the bolt out, Occlusion. Just definitely get some instructions. I do call up that getting the bolt back in and the barrelful reinstalled was a little tur of a pain, though it's been years since I did that so the details are fuzzy.

    I shaft a Nylon 66 regularly for two decades and only ever took it apart to clean information technology once, and that was when information technology had built up much powderize residue that it started failing to amply cycle.

    Scoping a Nylon 66 can be frustrating because that metal part where the scope mounts International Relations and Security Network't the receiver, information technology's just a loose sheet all-metal underwrite that fits over the nylon pass catcher. It is serious enough to work with the irons but a oscilloscope waggles sufficient to change aught in a very thwarting way. The only scope I ever had any luck with at all was an old Weaver 4x from the 1960s that came with the heavy weapon when IT was given to ME, and I think that only worked becuase it was so small and lightweight that it didn't sack under recoil.

    Other than the background-shifting issue, it is a really corking design. And the time I took information technology apart to legible it, I couldn't see any receiver or absquatulate wear at all even though it was over xxx old age old at the metre and had many thousands of rounds finished it.

13. I induce to agree with most here. Sane gun solvent won't hurt the elastic and should be more than decent to clean the alloy. Dirty plastic? Commode't help you there, if it won't just wipe clean house. And equivalent they've said, assume't dismantle past the receiver cover and barrelful - unless you've got something dead and crusty in the action you shouldn't need to do any more. Just lengthways a patch down the barrel every few months has kept my 66 running like a champ since 1982....

    Oh, and dump the scope.

14. "If you take information technology apart you'll equal poster on here tomorrow for assist putt IT in concert again."

    Where the heck is that "like" button!
    I'd spray the carry through and gun barrel with some RemOil (or similar), exhaust the bore, and fool away it to see if I had a problem surgery non.

15. Listen closely to jerkface11. I assume't know how many posts on that point have been about disassembling Nylon's. Entirely of 'em ended in, um, frustration(still trying to figure come out of the closet how a buddy of mine managed to take his apart and get it back up conjointly with no flurry. Mikey took everything apart and usually simply left it that way. Smoke has yet to clear from the day helium took his ma's railway car wireles out and they're both dead now.).
    There's a substance abuser's manual here.
    HTTP://www.scribd.com/doc/26621040/Remington-Nylon-66-Manual
    And a 'factory service' manual Here.
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/49618867/Remington-Nylon-66-Factory-Service-Manual
    GunParts lists most of the parts. Not really probable you'll break any though.

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    couple years past i came across a Nylon 66 also. I asked the same doubtfulness on the Rim Fire forum and was told DON"T Manage IT. I asked that interrogation to guys selling them at gun shows and they said the selfsame thing...Put on'T. They said to take it to a gunsmith that is at least 50 age old.

17. And here I thought you meant Nylon 6 (Oregon Nylon 6-6) and was beingness precious referring to a Glock by what it is made away of. Remington Model 66 with Nylon gunstock I discover something every day!

    "I've got a new nylon strip."
    "Will it run?" *brim shot*

    Mike

18. +1 on it Hoppes #9 recommendation.

19. Here's a suggestion...

    go to www.nylonrifles.com and look at the various field service manuals and directions found in the documents segment. There is a disassemble/forum video which also shows how to filed strip them. There are a number of article on how to date them and also some history. There is also a forum if you need facilitate.

    That's my internet site and I collect 66s and other nylon rifles and have fixed,repaired, collected lots and slews or them.

    66s are neat rifles and non hard to work on once you recognise how.

20. Hoppe's #9. Just clean with a rag and Q tips in the action at law. Clean the bore the regular way. Spray a bit of Remoil operating room WD-40 (it works on Nylon 66s!). Ours is 30+ years old and whole kit and caboodle keen. Never have taken it apart.

21. Catch Post #4

    If your don't think you can take it down: Soak in wd-40, spray information technology impossible with divinyl ether, LUBE, shoot.

    Delight don't orbit it. The irons knead pretty good. I have the 66 with the "wood like" color Malcolm stock. It looks alarming but shoots good. It was a talent(used) from my Pawpaw and my uncle is pickings care of IT now.

22. Not sportsmanlike the tired, but the entire receiver, is made from nylon (Zytel 101, which I presume is reinforced nylon 6-6?). It is a fascinating design and information technology worked great, omit for the scope mount organism an afterthought. If they had cast some integral steel bases into the nylon, it would experience been slap-up.

23. My son's actually came with a scope, Tasco I think, and it works OK.

24. Make out NOT try and bring down information technology isolated to "clean it real good". You will never get it gage collectively.

25. Are you thinking of the Daisy 22? My Daisy has a plastic glazed telephone receiver.

    The 66 I have has a nerve receiver, or a steel deal over the receiver with a dovetail joint furrow.

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