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Firearm reconditioning: How to remove rusty spots WITHOUT removing any of the blue?
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<blockquote data-quote="elkaholic" data-source="post: 647687" data-attributes="member: 13833"><p><strong>Re: Firearm reconditioning: How to remove rusty spots WITHOUT removing any of the bl</strong></p><p></p><p>I'm not a gunsmith but maybe one will chime in, especially if you run the thread under gunsmithing, but here is my opinion. Once you have rust spots, you have already removed the bluing and have also left at least small pits! Short of stripping, finishing, and re bluing, anything else will be a bandaid and will never look right.</p><p>If you choose to try to just stop the rusting, you might try some old fashioned naval jelly and rub "LIGHTLY" with 0000 steel wool, clean with alcohol and then keep your barrel wiped down with a silicon rag or occasionally light gun oil to prevent further rusting. You could use permablue first if you wanted, but it will not totally blend in to the old finish and will look "blothchy".........Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elkaholic, post: 647687, member: 13833"] [b]Re: Firearm reconditioning: How to remove rusty spots WITHOUT removing any of the bl[/b] I'm not a gunsmith but maybe one will chime in, especially if you run the thread under gunsmithing, but here is my opinion. Once you have rust spots, you have already removed the bluing and have also left at least small pits! Short of stripping, finishing, and re bluing, anything else will be a bandaid and will never look right. If you choose to try to just stop the rusting, you might try some old fashioned naval jelly and rub "LIGHTLY" with 0000 steel wool, clean with alcohol and then keep your barrel wiped down with a silicon rag or occasionally light gun oil to prevent further rusting. You could use permablue first if you wanted, but it will not totally blend in to the old finish and will look "blothchy".........Rich [/QUOTE]
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