Removing foreign materials

[gunpoorboy1]

I have a Marlin 1894, lever action, .45LC

I mounted a Red Dot on it by using a mounting rail screwed to the receiver.

I have done this with countless other rifles but this time when I removed the mount it left some kind of material on the receiver top. I can't tell if it's a paint transfer from the mount or some substance added to the mount to buffer between the mount and the receiver.

I tried WD-40, penetrating oil, etc to get it to come off. I'm having very limited success and am looking for suggestions as to something that might help remove this stuff. The WD-40 seemed to turn the substance white but won't remove it.

Help

 

[QuietM4]

Is it excess thread locker? I’ve seen that as a common problem when removing scope mounts.

 

[gunpoorboy1]

It very well could be. I used lock tight blue on the threads. i supposed it could have
seeped between the mount and the top of the receiver.

If that were the case, what could I use to cut through it and clean it off the top of my
receiver.

 

[shooter444]

Heat it up, and wipe it off.

 

[delta6]

Brake Cleaner....

 

[RandyTF]

Might try acetone.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

Lacquer thinner.

 

[Crippledtrigger]

Try a little heat and see if it softens up. Then you have your answer

 

[knockonit]

2nd brake cleaner, the greatest of all fubared install cleaners
just saying, from experience
Rj

 

[87jeep]

Heat is the easy way to release threadlockers. Around 400 deg it turns liquid again, so 250 deg would make it soft. Treat it like a piece of plastic. Just a old machinist here. Been there & done that!
A heat gun should just works fine!
Then clean up with RJ's finest

Carry on

 

[gunpoorboy1]

The acetone and the brake cleaner did not work. Used my wife's hair dryer to heat it. That didn't work but might just of not got hot enough. I got a heat gun coming in Sunday. If that doesn't work,
I'm going to hmmmmm, not sure, let hope it works.

Thanks to everyone for your ideas.

 

[shooter444]

Small butane torch,... just wave the flame over the loctite until you see it get soft when you poke it with a stick, or ?,... then wipe,.. repeat until clean.

Heating loctite frozen screws with a torch, is the only way I have found to loosen them up, safely.

 

[Delfuego]

If acetone didn't work, that's not adhesive. Bedding material or JB Weld?