Sako Sticky Stock Fixed

[Deermanagement]

Bit the bullet this evening and stripped the soft touch finish that had gone sticky on the Sako Finnlight. Bad mistake by Sako to finish a stock that will react with chemicals like oil and deet. Anyhow, a couple of hours of work with a bicarbonate paste, cleaning off with water, drying and then rubbing tissues that attract the lint, highlighting what's been missed, it's now finished.
Forecast isn't brilliant for the coming week so it'll get an outing, being my bad weather rifle Managed to do it without removing the stock which I didn't want to do as I'm only half way through testing some loads. It's also an insanely accurate rifle in .270, for such a light barrel, shooting from well to ridiculously good with everything I've put through it, factory and loaded ammo of different specs, strangely enough, with no POI change.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Soft touch is such a load of balloxs on a tool like a rifle or on rangefinders/binos the same with leather inserts ala Blaser, they are not rolls royces

 

[Steff]

Soft touch is such a load of balloxs on a tool like a rifle or on rangefinders/binos the same with leather inserts ala Blaser, they are not rolls royces

Oh dear, I remember having the first Blaser synthetic stock on the R93. I believe it was called 'Offroad'. That one had no rubber inlays and was almost impossible to hold properly. It would slip out of your hands while taking aim. Completely useless.
I've never heard of rubber inlays becoming sticky, only the soft touch coatings which cover the complete stock.

 

[finnbear270]

My bud Flyboy 270, Owns a .270 Finnlight, .. Accurate is an understatement (I always tried to coax it off of him)
Remember he pretty much filled the larder one Arran trip with it.

 

[Deermanagement]

Oh dear, I remember having the first Blaser synthetic stock on the R93. I believe it was called 'Offroad'. That one had no rubber inlays and was almost impossible to hold properly. It would slip out of your hands while taking aim. Completely useless.
I've never heard of rubber inlays becoming sticky, only the soft touch coatings which cover the complete stock.

The rubber inlays are perfect, no issues with these. I’m wondering if anyones had any issues with the finish on the carbon stocks?

 

[Steff]

The rubber inlays are perfect, no issues with these. I’m wondering if anyones had any issues with the finish on the carbon stocks?

Ha, ha, I‘m pretty sure people don‘t talk about this a lot. They paid very dear money for their high tech carbon stocks and will hardly admit (not even to themselves) that they can‘t get a proper grip on them. That‘s for the early ones. Now many carbon stocks have some kind of inlay or roughening on the gripping surfaces.

 

[Steff]

BTW, any pictures of the cleaned stock? I‘d be interested to see what it looks like now.

 

[Deermanagement]

Finished stock is fine, it's not a shiny finish and assume it was matt it assist the original coating process.

 

[Heym SR20]

Bit the bullet this evening and stripped the soft touch finish that had gone sticky on the Sako Finnlight. Bad mistake by Sako to finish a stock that will react with chemicals like oil and deet. Anyhow, a couple of hours of work with a bicarbonate paste, cleaning off with water, drying and then rubbing tissues that attract the lint, highlighting what's been missed, it's now finished.
Forecast isn't brilliant for the coming week so it'll get an outing, being my bad weather rifle Managed to do it without removing the stock which I didn't want to do as I'm only half way through testing some loads. It's also an insanely accurate rifle in .270, for such a light barrel, shooting from well to ridiculously good with everything I've put through it, factory and loaded ammo of different specs, strangely enough, with no POI change.

When you say “Bicarbonate paste” was this a bicarb toothpaste or bicarb and water mix?

 

[Deermanagement]

When you say “Bicarbonate paste” was this a bicarb toothpaste or bicarb and water mix?

Bicarb and water mixed to a watery paste

 

[quarrystalker]

The rubber inlays are perfect, no issues with these. I’m wondering if anyones had any issues with the finish on the carbon stocks?

Wonder if this is the same finish on my Browning Cynergy stock ? I bought a Browning Carbon fibre stock, as although the wooden one was fine, I liked the look of the black ice version, but not the hollow cheap feel of the plastic stock. Unfortunately now it has all gone sticky/tacky to touch. I was thinking of trying to strip this back & if needed get it hydro dipped.

 

[NickJ]

I wish I had done that to my Sako 85 synthetic before I sold it, it was scarred from 8 years of hard use rubbing on knife sheaves on my belt, slings, fences etc. It looked so tatty I really struggled to sell what was otherwise a brilliant rifle. Idiotic finish by Sako

I only sold it to buy a custom rifle and have another Sako in a different calibre but that came in a McMillan stock

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I was told by experts in the injection moulding business, as I had had an idea for a VW Polo steering column shroud in 2K which saved 24 cents per assembly for VW (never did get any payment from them), that soft touch effect is shredded recycled rubber mixed up with poly pellets of the normal injecting variety which are held in suspension and give this rubbery effect.

 

[Fidget]

Rubbing alcohol and a brass brush also works wonders. My A7 picked up that much lint it was almost shag pile ! I also did the bedding contact patches inside the stock.

 

[fizzbangwhallop]

Well, having read this thread the other week I tried the wet bicarb solution on my 20b Benelli Cordoba’s fore end this morning and it brought the sticky residue off without too much trouble just rubbing it in with a nitrile glove on..… I was well impressed and a great result

It had really pee’d me off as it went sticky in the cabinet over 9 months… which just happened to coincide with putting a Napier VP90 sachet in there. … so I have my doubts about VP90.

cheers

fizz