Tokarev SVT40 Bolt Color

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I Picked up an svt 40 friday, love the gun but the bolt and carrier are a very ugly brownish red color. Is this original, If not its got to be changed
 
Original was in the white.

The SVT40`s for sale in Canada now are refurbished (have been reblued too) and the rebluing process on certain parts works differently, so you get purple, gold, pinkish colored bolts because of the differing hardness of the steel used.

If you change it, you will also be destroying a part of it`s history, but to each his own... just don`t let skirsons catch you doing it... ;)
 
I'm told the color comes from high nickel content steel in the bolt. I prefer the original silver, but like Fox said, removing the color is altering the history of the rifle. You'll get used to it.
 
not all the refurbs have blued bolts. The odd one comes with an electro-pencilled, but unblued bolt. Not sure the rhyme or reason.

I have one refurb with a bolt still in the white.
 
Well that's just plum crazy!
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jside86 said:
here is the link
http://mosinnagant.net/ussr/svt401.asp
http://mosinnagant.net/ussr/svt_on.asp


there is some more picture here two
http://mosinnagant.net/ussr/Svt-Photos85.asp

there is a picture of SVT40 per year of manifacture and some show redish bolt

I just got my SVT40 too so I was asking the same question, no one was ansering on CGN so I made my own search with my ol friend google...:p
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Wrong :bangHead: all those pics are of Refurbs "no they did not refurb by year ethier lol"

All SVT in the 1940s had silver "bare metal bolts" Unless you can show me a WWII photo with a non siver bolt"


Notice the mosin dog collar slings too ;)
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When I first got my refurbed plum bolt SVT I cleaned the bolt and carrier by soaking it for a few hours in a container of "Ed's Red" homemade gun cleaner. To my surprise the plum colour started to come off when I was wiping it down. Surprisingly little effor with some fine steel wool took it all off in about 5 minutes. I was a little worried that I was ruining the rifle but now I've come to the conclusion that it looks nicer and does absolutely nothing to the value of the rifle.

I think it's a side effect of long term exposure of that type of steel to the storage grease but I have no evidence to back that up.
 
The plum bolts give greater accuracy, initiate conversations, enable them to hide in the produce section of the grocery store, reduce felt recoil, prevent rust and give strength to the bolt.;)
 
gnutcha said:
When I first got my refurbed plum bolt SVT I cleaned the bolt and carrier by soaking it for a few hours in a container of "Ed's Red" homemade gun cleaner. To my surprise the plum colour started to come off when I was wiping it down. Surprisingly little effor with some fine steel wool took it all off in about 5 minutes. I was a little worried that I was ruining the rifle but now I've come to the conclusion that it looks nicer and does absolutely nothing to the value of the rifle.

I think it's a side effect of long term exposure of that type of steel to the storage grease but I have no evidence to back that up.
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After the 1950s the soviet started putting coatings and paint "during the refurb" on shinny silver weapons parts ie: SKS bayos, bolts and SVT bolts
 
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