Model12Win
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Well it's squirrel season, and I want to hunt Saturday morning.
Well long story short, I went to clean my Marlin model 60 and went to spray the trigger group (plastic) with chlorine free brake cleaner... big mistake! The trigger group MELTED!
That's right. It melted. I first realized this when I started to see a great deal of black stuff run off the thing. Then the next thing I know my hands are covered with black melted plastic goo, and the trigger assemble is destroyed. The trigger is actually welded stiff... nothing works now. It is totaled!
So I go to put the gun back together again, hoping by some miracle that the trigger group can work itself free later, and upon insertion of the bolt into the reciever... I break the main spring! It bent right in half, and is now useless.
So as a warning to anyone out there with a Model 60 rifle... DO NOT USE BRAKE CLEANER ON YOUR GUN!!! Also be careful putting the mainspring back in. On the good side of things, this gives me and excuse to get a bolt-action .22 which is something I've always wanted to get!
Learn from my mistakes guys, the Marlin Model 60 is no AK-47 in the durability department and just take care in cleaning and taking it apart and putting it back together again. I paid something like $150 for the rifle a year or two ago, so I'm not out all that much thankfully.
Just felt like I should share this!
Well long story short, I went to clean my Marlin model 60 and went to spray the trigger group (plastic) with chlorine free brake cleaner... big mistake! The trigger group MELTED!
That's right. It melted. I first realized this when I started to see a great deal of black stuff run off the thing. Then the next thing I know my hands are covered with black melted plastic goo, and the trigger assemble is destroyed. The trigger is actually welded stiff... nothing works now. It is totaled!
So I go to put the gun back together again, hoping by some miracle that the trigger group can work itself free later, and upon insertion of the bolt into the reciever... I break the main spring! It bent right in half, and is now useless.
So as a warning to anyone out there with a Model 60 rifle... DO NOT USE BRAKE CLEANER ON YOUR GUN!!! Also be careful putting the mainspring back in. On the good side of things, this gives me and excuse to get a bolt-action .22 which is something I've always wanted to get!
Learn from my mistakes guys, the Marlin Model 60 is no AK-47 in the durability department and just take care in cleaning and taking it apart and putting it back together again. I paid something like $150 for the rifle a year or two ago, so I'm not out all that much thankfully.
Just felt like I should share this!