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Hello all, I have blued lots of parts with cold blue and chemical Bluing But I have never done a barrel. My question is this, With a chemical bluing do you plug the openings in the barrel or do you just leave them open? Thanks for any help in advance. Ray NRA Life Member NAHC Life Member NRA Patriot Endowment Life Member | ||
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Not sure what you mean by Chemical Bluing. But normally open As usual just my $.02 Paul K | |||
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Hot, rust, bluing? I have done them plugged and unplugged. As long as you don't get the stuff inside the bore it doesn't seem to make a difference IF you are doing, as I did, six cycles of carding, applying the black, letting rust, boiling and then carding again in as many hours. | |||
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do you mean hot blue? no plugs - they would explode out, as the salts are 295 degrees opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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With rust bluing you should plug them as the chemical will etch the steel and hypothetically create fouling problems if you get any inside the bore. With hot, caustic bluing you just leave them unplugged and blue the inside. No etching takes place with this method. With cold bluing you generally just create a mess. But it rubs off on your hands in a couple of months. When I was a kid. I had the stick. I had the rock. And I had the mud puddle. I am as adept with them today, as I was back then. Lets see today's kids say that about their IPods, IPads and XBoxes in 45 years! Rod Henrickson | |||
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Or you can be careful and not slop the rust bluing solution into the bore; it won't rust even though you think it will. I do not plug bores except whilst phosphating; then you really need to unless you want the bore to look like frost. | |||
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Never plugged the bore during rust bluing. Bore scope inspection showed same before and after. The rust blue solution doesn't get applied to the bore anyway. If you're worried about the bore, coat it with clear lacquer , easily removed with lacquer thinner when you're done. | |||
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Thanks to all, and yes I was talking about caustic bluing that is the way I blue most everything I just have not done a barrel that way. Ray NRA Life Member NAHC Life Member NRA Patriot Endowment Life Member | |||
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Leave it open. No question!! As usual just my $.02 Paul K | |||
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Rod, Has that been your experience with all cold blue solutions? Because I have had great luck with Brownell's Oxpho and never had it rub off. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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I've rust blued a lot of guns in 40 plus years and have never encountered issues with the bores. A bunch have been shotguns,pretty easy to see any potential problems there. As suggested, if paranoid, run a patch of lacquer down the bores prior to bluing..Or even better put an apple in your pocket. Plugs, no plugs, apple...all the same | |||
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