Freckles............?

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Had Freckles out yesterday and had some fun with it.
Great shoot'in wee kritter.
Now the acme has to go....................:redface:

I took it apart yesterday and started with the soft wire brush, oil and Fluid Film.
Most of the rust in the freckles is gone leaving shyknee cratters.
Not sure weather I should start sanding this or alcohawl wiper down and reblue?
Whatcha awl suggest for help'in'er along?

Dang'd iff'in eye dew and dang iff'in I don't..............:runaway:

I'm nawt the kawzs awf dem freckles, jest meerly try'in tuh kleener up a bit.

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I have used 4/0 steel wool and oil to wipe off "freckles" - but not sure that will work for "pits" - pits are significant number of iron molecules gone - likely when the rust was abraded off - about best that can be done is clean out those "pits", so they do not get worse. I had read of re-builds that fussily re-welded / re-filled each pit - then exterior surface was flattened and re-polished, then the exterior was re-blued - but I suspect the thing has to be pretty special to warrant that attention and cost to "fix" it. I understand that the welding rod used has to exactly match to the parent material, or the re-bluing goes all wonky.

For a Swede 94-14 accessory, I made up a "reverse electrolysis" unit - it converted most of the red rust to black rust - which many of us would call bluing - did nothing for the pits on one of them - I believe that was just too far gone, although I read of a museum curator in England using really low voltage and weeks to restore a Viking age helmet - to the point you can actually see and read the original engravings, that would have gone away if an abrasive had been used to "shine it up".
 
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If you just touch up the spots they’ll still be noticeable.

You can buy a birch wood kit at Crappy tire for about $60.
It’ll look a lot better if strip it completely and cold blue.
 
rattle can that thing in a camo pattern, scratches and dents will be camouflaged and hard to spot, ought to double the value of that rust bucket when you post it on the EE, triple it if you autograph the buttstock with a jiffy marker, quadruple it if you mark it #1 of many
 
I don't believe cold blue would ever look as good as that old-school bright blue - even with the freckles. For future reference, if you had boiled or steamed the parts before carding, the brown rust would have turned black and the loose surface rust would have turned powdery and more easily carded off.
 
I can't remember who, but there's a guy in BC interior that sells wood stock replacements that you need to sand/whittle down to the final size - either that or have the crack repaired?
 
A few years back I've got something similar for free from a guy who claimed it came from the dump and didn't want it to own any longer. The stock was cracked due to running "out of ammo" and he had to club the Porcupine to death with barrel in hand...

Put some elbow grease in that one and it turned out to look nice and shoot well.
 
I cleaned up a similar pump .22 that had some light surface rust and freckles as you say, I used 00000 steel wool and oil and then gave it a quick cold blue wipe down. Keeps the character of it but removes the rust, it’s a solid looking gun still but if you have it in your hands it nicely shows it’s age.
 
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