Posted: 5/15/2009 12:47:45 PM EDT
| Anybody in the Lexington area that does blueing? I need a trigger guard blued. |
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I just got this posted on another list today, haven't had time to verify it, so use at your own risk, YMMV, etc, etc, and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.
This piece below I'm fwd. from a friend.At sometime we've all needed to re-blue small parts of whatever. And my experience with the stuff you get at the store usually is less than satisfactory.This the below works. CT ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- If its regular old steel (and not stainless or aluminum), you can blue it at home for less than $10. Go to Lowe's and buy a couple 1lb jugs of Stump Grinder, which is nothing more than Potassium Nitrate. Remove all rust and any old finish off the trigger guard, and make sure you degrease it. Heat the stump grinder over the stove until it completely melts into a liquid (which may take a little while), and simply suspend the trigger guard in the liquid for 10 minutes. Remove it, neutralize it in some good old water, and you will have a nice "old world" blued finish. I've done a few small parts this way, and they all came out very nice. |