So here is my latest disaster that I've been asked to restore. I think my friends are going deeper and deeper into their junk pile to test me!
I've been able to get all parts moving and disassembled; the barrel is already ready to blue. What can I use to brush on, or dip the action into that will really make all this rust vanish? I've used Klean Strip Prep & Etch with some success but not enough. Remember those old commercials where they'd dip the tarnished spoon into the solution and it would come out like new? I'm never going to be able to uniformly steel wool out all the nooks and crannies with these hammers and curves.
It's a J. Stevens Arms & Tool (I think Model 235)
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I've been able to get all parts moving and disassembled; the barrel is already ready to blue. What can I use to brush on, or dip the action into that will really make all this rust vanish? I've used Klean Strip Prep & Etch with some success but not enough. Remember those old commercials where they'd dip the tarnished spoon into the solution and it would come out like new? I'm never going to be able to uniformly steel wool out all the nooks and crannies with these hammers and curves.
It's a J. Stevens Arms & Tool (I think Model 235)
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View attachment Rusty Barrel.jpgView attachment Clean Barrel.jpg
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