Brownells has discontinued their inletting black. I’ve always used it but surely there is an alternative. I don’t like Prussian blue as it stains more. Any suggestions? Sources?

That is actually bad news; everything else, including the home made concoctions, is inferior. I used to use soot; requires a candle or lamp.

Yeah, ya don't need inletting black on AR's!

Track of the wolf and log cabin shop have Jerrows. I’m good.

Yur can also get it from Fred Zeglin, 4_D reamer rental

Mix 50:50 by volume of black artist's oil color and petroleum jelly. Use yellow ocher in place of black for darker woods/synthetics. Remove residue with naptha or lighter fluid.

I use lamp black mixed ver thick with WD40. I let it dry into a solid, a lot like shoe polish, and a parts cleaner brush cut short and stiff. Never used anything else.

Many years ago I started out using inletting black. In stock making school I learned to use prussian blue. You apply it with a fine bristle tooth brush very thin. It is more accurate and makes very little mess. If you have trouble removing it you are lathering it on too thick. One tube lasts for a long time. Too much of any type will make false impressions.

Well,
Sometimes I use a small kerosene lamp that allows me to adjust the wick and soot the metal. But, lately, I have been using black lipstick from Dollar General. Its cheap enough and cleans up pretty well. I think the tube was $2 and I did a couple of rifles with it.

treebone carving might have some

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Originally posted by Magnum Hunter1:
Well,
Sometimes I use a small kerosene lamp that allows me to adjust the wick and soot the metal. But, lately, I have been using black lipstick from Dollar General. Its cheap enough and cleans up pretty well. I think the tube was $2 and I did a couple of rifles with it.

Thank goodness for Goth girls.... and boys.

Regular paper masking tape burns with a lot of soot. I roll up a piece, light it, and wave it under the part. Flat black in a couple seconds and less cumbersome than a candle or lamp. This also works well for checking case fits, rifling engagement on bullets, etc.

Sometimes black sharpie will do what you need.

Any gear marking compound will work.

Phil

Get a Zippo cig. lighter and use lots of lighter fluid. After a couple of smoking the parts just use a small amount of light machine oil to a brush and this will mark the parts several times before you will need to smoke the parts again.

dude ...

buy cheap black lipstick at ANY department or drug store ... if it's too thick, melt it, at petroleum jelly, and put into a jar ...

Don't know about the rest of you ****'s but walking into a drug store I'd be buying some shoe polish before browsing the women's section for the proper shade of Lipstick.

Phil

Phil,
sure enough, i get your point - doesn't bother me, in the least, to go pick up some black lipstick .. i can see where it could be socially awkward ..but, frankly, well, heck, you brought it up .. I just don't 'care' about things like this .. doesn't occur to me to be bothered.

I have used Prussian Blue for about 45 years.

Still have the little bottle I got from Herters years and years ago.

When I get low I go to the Auto parts store and get a new tube of it and refill my bottle.

I keep one of the long handled Q tips from Brownells beside the bottle. And use the saturated Q tip to wipe a thin coating of the Prussian Blue on the metal

Just my 2 cents.

Jim Wisner

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Originally posted by Toomany Tools:
I use lamp black mixed ver thick with WD40. I let it dry into a solid, a lot like shoe polish, and a parts cleaner brush cut short and stiff. Never used anything else.

Same as I've used for years...Haven't found any better

I recently bought some Jerrow's inletting black from Track of the Wolf.The container caps are marked:Not to be sold or possessed in Ca.Must be really dangerous stuff.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by KenT7021:
I recently bought some Jerrow's inletting black from Track of the Wolf.The container caps are marked:Not to be sold or possessed in Ca.Must be really dangerous stuff.[/QUOTE

It's the aniline , I suspect...Not good stuff!

Most of it is full of lead, which requires labeling in California.

Phil

Most legislators from Kalifornie have lead in their Glutes. And since that is the area from which their thoughts come, lead affects them greatly. Be Well, Packy.

Jeffe,
If you buy condoms with the black lip stick they won't look you in the eye,so all is clear!!

BTW. red lip stick works just as well and is easier to see...and you can tell them your lips are chapped..