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<blockquote data-quote="Cowbaby" data-source="post: 3573701" data-attributes="member: 46875"><p>Working on getting parts rust blued still.</p><p></p><p>OMG this freakin Winchester Nickel steel is tough tough to take a rust, nickle steel being just about a stainless without the chromium. Even Winchester had heck blueing this stuff and later models changed to being stamped "proof" steel instead of nickle. That is why you see a lot of these old thudys with a gray or plum brown spotted receiver. In the 20s and 30s they had issues with the blueing completely flaking off. This one only had two tiny pieces of the original bluing left back by the hammer. It was some sort of strange blueing I am not familiar with. Looked more like a coating. Carbona maybe I don't know but it was about flaked off after 90 years anywhoo.</p><p></p><p>I am going to BEAT a rust blue job on this dang thing if its the last thing I do, I gave the receiver a pickle wash of sorts of some diluted Hydrocloric acid until it flashed grey and then dunked it in water. I also added some copper sulfate(fungicide for your rose bushes) to my barrel brown solution thinking it might help. Why? well it seems to be in most barrel browning recipes so what the heck. It seems to be helping. I think I got a good bite on two coats finally in the first pic that is right after swabbing in on. It might work. The other pics are of the lever, and misc parts rusting after a few coats. That dang third piece, the floorplate and hammer are some more of that nickle stuff too, they have more coats than the lever and still is not as dark. The third pic is the magazine tube on its last run. I think it is going to end up looking the best.</p><p></p><p>I have learned a bunch about this rust blueing doing this one. My barrel browning kept getting stronger as i guess the vodka was evaporating out or something. The dang barrel browning is getting more shots of vodka than I am. HA. I have learned that this stuff is pretty stout and you need to keep diluting it weaker as you add coats or it will take some of the first layers off. I am going to end up at 1/4 strength before its over for the last pass I think. Rust blueing, yea I have learned pretty much anyone can rust a gun gun metal grey but to get that bespoke shotgun blue black look takes some kind of special skills.</p><p></p><p>Just a dummy trying to learn something.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]204968[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204969[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204970[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowbaby, post: 3573701, member: 46875"] Working on getting parts rust blued still. OMG this freakin Winchester Nickel steel is tough tough to take a rust, nickle steel being just about a stainless without the chromium. Even Winchester had heck blueing this stuff and later models changed to being stamped "proof" steel instead of nickle. That is why you see a lot of these old thudys with a gray or plum brown spotted receiver. In the 20s and 30s they had issues with the blueing completely flaking off. This one only had two tiny pieces of the original bluing left back by the hammer. It was some sort of strange blueing I am not familiar with. Looked more like a coating. Carbona maybe I don't know but it was about flaked off after 90 years anywhoo. I am going to BEAT a rust blue job on this dang thing if its the last thing I do, I gave the receiver a pickle wash of sorts of some diluted Hydrocloric acid until it flashed grey and then dunked it in water. I also added some copper sulfate(fungicide for your rose bushes) to my barrel brown solution thinking it might help. Why? well it seems to be in most barrel browning recipes so what the heck. It seems to be helping. I think I got a good bite on two coats finally in the first pic that is right after swabbing in on. It might work. The other pics are of the lever, and misc parts rusting after a few coats. That dang third piece, the floorplate and hammer are some more of that nickle stuff too, they have more coats than the lever and still is not as dark. The third pic is the magazine tube on its last run. I think it is going to end up looking the best. I have learned a bunch about this rust blueing doing this one. My barrel browning kept getting stronger as i guess the vodka was evaporating out or something. The dang barrel browning is getting more shots of vodka than I am. HA. I have learned that this stuff is pretty stout and you need to keep diluting it weaker as you add coats or it will take some of the first layers off. I am going to end up at 1/4 strength before its over for the last pass I think. Rust blueing, yea I have learned pretty much anyone can rust a gun gun metal grey but to get that bespoke shotgun blue black look takes some kind of special skills. Just a dummy trying to learn something. [ATTACH=full]204968[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204969[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204970[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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