What do you all do about carding the inside of a receiver. I'm planning ahead getting all my supplies, etc. together to try my hand at Rust Bluing and was wondering what people did about all those hard to reach places.

Thanks,

M

[ 06-03-2003, 00:09: Message edited by: z1r ]

Z , I do my own rust blue , and I keep all the surfaces inside the receiver polished non blued , I try to be careful on the apply of the acid , if I have some run of acid after bluing , just polishing with a 600 stone or wet and dry strips , for sharp corners I use degreased five 0 steel wool , and a carding brush .

Good luck

Daniel

Never done slow rust before, might do it in the future. I am guessing tiny pieces of 4/O steel wool on small tongs. Maybe I'll even try to rub the surface with a piece of clay or an eraser. Tell me how you progress, how's your setup? do you use a cabin?

Pyro if you ask to me , I live in the wet/green part of Spain , up north at one mile of the sea , rain all the weeks ( once at last) and usually humidity it�s a minimum of 60 % to a high 90 % then not necessary any cabinet , just hang in my garage and you have in three hours a lovely yellowreddish surface on the steel , carefull carding , and I use a Q tips with steel wool degreased 00000 for shapr corners , and I use a carding brush mounted to a drill , I use a small fixture to hold the rifle on a table covered with used newspapers , it�s easy for me this way , than to have the carding brush fixed mounted and holding the rifle , three to four apply of acid it�s enough , when ready you don�t get any oxidizing of the surface just traces of yellow and keep blue/black , after last carding and to neutralize the acid after finish a new boiling with a ffew grams of caustic soda , nothing compares to rust blue

Thanks for the help. It seems then that for the most part the inner surfaces of the receiver are left in the white. And that only the visible surfaces (inside or out) get blued. Is this what most of you all do?