Did I ruin grips

[Jason01]

Why does everyone call the Colt grip, grips? It is a one piece grip.

It like saying I washed my cars…when you only have one.

Or Carhartt bibs when you only wear one

 

[CaptainVane]

Apparently the grip (not grips) is staying milky white. Lesson learned, do not submerge in boiling hot water to clean.
And thx to Phil, sending me a replacement g-r-i-p. Singular.
If i think of it i will post a picture later when home.

 

[Jim in Wisconsin]

There's a big milky white spot on my dining room table from setting something wet and hot there. It never goes away either.

 

[Eutycus]

There's a big milky white spot on my dining room table from setting something wet and hot there. It never goes away either.

A Table cloth should hide it just fine but I'm afraid that won't do in the other situation.

 

[rfhall50]

I always heard that rubbing the white/milky spots on furniture would remove those spots. Fortunate, have never had to try it. Just my $.02. Maybe old wives tale.

 

[Smokerr]

You are also in the long term warp and twist area, that kind of saturation is not good for wood (yea I am a poet)

Just an aside, true story, I was there. Doing a roof for a Picnic Shelter, 35 feet long, 20 across. Broke the first band for tongue and grove (3/4 or 1 inch). Spwang. I have never seen the like since, that stuff exploded in all 3 dimensions, it warped up or down, bent along the edge and twisted. I have seen any single one of those on the usual poor wood we get now but not all three, occasionally two, never 3.

It had been kept dry under a shelter roof, but it was the last on the shelf and they restocked each year and it got put to the back. No one could say how long it had been there. My job was to see what the longest length I could get that was reasonably st right. 12- 16 feet long. 4 ft was common and I had sections of 2 ft (beams were 2 feet apart).

For sure you never ever want wood to get wet, it does bad things to it as well as changes ability to get a finish on it.

 

[deerstalkert]

There's a big milky white spot on my dining room table from setting something wet and hot there. It never goes away either.

and you still have all your skin?
i did that to the brides Oak claw foot / footed/ feet round dining table. she was away for a couple days. never noticed the table top had been refinished. did ask about the smell lingering in the house though. told her it was Ballistol.

 

[rfhall50]

I always heard that rubbing the white/milky spots on furniture would remove those spots. Fortunate, have never had to try it. Just my $.02. Maybe old wives tale.

 

[rfhall50]

My bad. That should be to rub TOOTPASTE on the spots.

 

[Bad Karma]

Apparently the grip (not grips) is staying milky white. Lesson learned, do not submerge in boiling hot water to clean.
And thx to Phil, sending me a replacement g-r-i-p. Singular.
If i think of it i will post a picture later when home.

Yes! There is no good reason to submerge these guns in any liquid, hot or cold… let alone with the stocks in place.

 

[Andrewmtnman]

If you want to try something for the heck of it, paint some hellmans mayonnaise on the wood and let it sit for a while. It’s a trick used to get water rings from glasses out of table tops. Maybe you can salvage them grips or that grip

 

[Eutycus]

If you want to try something for the heck of it, paint some hellmans mayonnaise on the wood and let it sit for a while. It’s a trick used to get water rings from glasses out of table tops. Maybe you can salvage them grips or that grip

Well I'll be, they finally found a use for mayonnaise.

 

[Codger Craig Wilcox]

There used to be a product, think it was called "Barkeeps Friend" that was used to remove water rings from flat, finished surfaces. Rub it in good, circles disappear. I always thought it must be very fine valve grinding compound.

 

[NotDanielBoone]

Same reason people say they wearing a pair of underwear or pants. Makes no sense. but there it is.

Actually "pants" does make sense as originally there were two, one for each leg and some kind of who knows what for the middle. But who says "grip panel"?

 

[CaptainVane]

Actually "pants" does make sense as originally there were two, one for each leg and some kind of who knows what for the middle. But who says "grip panel"?

Breech cloth. And your right on the separate leggings .

 

[CaptainVane]

There used to be a product, think it was called "Barkeeps Friend" that was used to remove water rings from flat, finished surfaces. Rub it in good, circles disappear. I always thought it must be very fine valve grinding compound.

Yep thats the stuff. Works.

 

[CaptainVane]

Well I'll be, they finally found a use for mayonnaise.

You dont eat BLTs? The mayo needs to be dripping out the sides.

 

[Eutycus]

You dont eat BLTs? The mayo needs to be dripping out the sides.

On yours maybe but not mine.

 

[Phil Coffins]

I find it humorous that putting a pistol in hot water leads to crouch less chaps!

 

[Eutycus]

I find it humorous that putting a pistol in hot water leads to crouch less chaps!

Discussions on some of these threads can take some "odd" turns sometimes.One never knows for sure what they'll wind up discussing.