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Offline Underwhere

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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #390 on: August 22, 2019, 10:40:40 PM »
Here goes.

I'll take the parts out of the motor oil on Sunday night.

This is one of my favorite parts. The motor oil immediately makes it very glossy and smooth. It's so cool.

I hope the finish cures darker a bit to match the slide. Same with the controls.


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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #391 on: August 23, 2019, 07:57:58 AM »
10 hours later.

I think later down the road I may tackle the spots on the beavertail and re-blue the entire gun to match.

I'll blue the slide less than the frame so I can match things.

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« Reply #392 on: August 23, 2019, 01:06:34 PM »
Looks Great to me !

When I had a set of bluing tanks I also had a cast iron pot that I heated with a propane fueled single burner. I would use this with standard bluing salts. When I was just doing one handgun I would use this set-up. Usually I would blu several guns at one time as heating the tanks just wasn't practical for onesey jobs. I never liked the rust bluing process, not that I didn't like the end result, I surely do but just so much easier with the conventional bluing salts method.

Ya got me thinking though, perhaps I should set up another cast iron bluing pot for single handguns. The last handgun I polished I had blued by a local shop for a $50 bill. I already have a 40 pound propane tank and the burners and pots probably could be had for around $100 or so...Hmmm. "Burners" as you need one with plain boiling water to remove the salts once out of the bluing tank. When I used the pot before I did use my rifle sized tank for boiling water. Don't know if I have enough room in my current workshop but I'm surely gonna do some thinking on this.

Once again, great job, keep up the good work !

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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #393 on: August 23, 2019, 09:56:42 PM »
Looks Great to me !

When I had a set of bluing tanks I also had a cast iron pot that I heated with a propane fueled single burner. I would use this with standard bluing salts. When I was just doing one handgun I would use this set-up. Usually I would blu several guns at one time as heating the tanks just wasn't practical for onesey jobs. I never liked the rust bluing process, not that I didn't like the end result, I surely do but just so much easier with the conventional bluing salts method.

Ya got me thinking though, perhaps I should set up another cast iron bluing pot for single handguns. The last handgun I polished I had blued by a local shop for a $50 bill. I already have a 40 pound propane tank and the burners and pots probably could be had for around $100 or so...Hmmm. "Burners" as you need one with plain boiling water to remove the salts once out of the bluing tank. When I used the pot before I did use my rifle sized tank for boiling water. Don't know if I have enough room in my current workshop but I'm surely gonna do some thinking on this.

Once again, great job, keep up the good work !
Never done Bluing salts. I should look into it.

I've parkerized, cerakoted, polished, rust blued myself. Maybe I should look into other finishes.


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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #394 on: August 25, 2019, 05:10:22 PM »
It's out of oil.


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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #395 on: August 25, 2019, 05:16:13 PM »
And now I need to choose grips.

I don't think any one of these work.

I may need to buy some wood ones.

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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #396 on: August 25, 2019, 05:24:24 PM »
Wood grips for sure


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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #397 on: August 25, 2019, 11:47:18 PM »
Ugh yea I should just place an order for a few.

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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #398 on: August 25, 2019, 11:50:47 PM »
So the frame is definitely pitted in many places.

Makes me wonder if that is the benefit of express Bluing. You don't really give it the opportunity to pit.

The problem I had was that I definitely overapplied the solution.

I just had no way of holding the hot frame while I applied it.

So maybe next time I'll still use the express blue but I'll fashion a frame holder that screws into the trigger bar support spring hole.


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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #399 on: August 26, 2019, 06:51:26 AM »
Many of us rust blue w/o issue(pitting). Personally, I think you may be over complicating a simple process that has been worked out for decades.

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Re: My Pre-B refinishing and modification diary
« Reply #400 on: August 26, 2019, 07:30:26 AM »
Absolutely.
But I'm still screwing it up. (and the gun)