- Location
- Sadly south of highway 40
Where do I get hot water bluing chemicals
Hot blue tanks
- Thread starter elijah_lee
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- Location
- Sadly south of highway 40
Looked into the Radocy blue and it looks nice and from the sounds of it is easy to do but is it durable
- Location
- Sadly south of highway 40
And for Radocy blue can you use stainless tanks?
I have done a few and yes it only involves only boiling water.Prepare the gun and degrease with acetone.Plug the bore,hang in the hot tank.Remove from tank swab on the chemical all over the gun in long even strokes.Put back in the water for a few minutes and remove,card with 0000steel wool and put back in tank.After a few Min's remove swab again with chemical and put back in tank.now start all over again card etc. and keep going till you have the desired blue.It may take 5 or 6 or more cycles depending on the steel to get what you want.After final card swab with good oil while still hot and you are done.Does a very nice finish.You need to work with rubber gloves as the gun is damn hot when it comes out of the tank.Don't be shy jump in. All you need is one tank stainless doesn't matter you are only boiling water.
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- Location
- Sadly south of highway 40
Well then I'm getting on that Radocy blue seems easy and fast
- Location
- Sadly south of highway 40
But does anybody know if it's as durable as say hot bluing
Cold rust bluing can provide the best of bluing in my opinioin. It was the original method, and only supplanted due to economics. It is more labour intensive, and slower. Balance that against safe, forgiving(issues con be found and addressed during one of many steps), and the best of bluing finishes (opinion) regarding durability. As suggested already, you'd want to be doing quite a bit of bluing before setting up n' running hot blue. As with either method, surface preparation is directly proportional to outcomes!
now don't get yer panties in a wad, they are out there, just kinda a rare item.
i just bumped into these:
http://www.gunsmithshoppe.com/index.php/inventory?page=4#
not a total bargain, but they re closer to where you are.
FWIW i would pick up the tanks Sorenson has, and ask him sweetly if he would abide any questions you might have in the future. The guy is simply the best in western Canada - a great topic to argue over, i know, but based on my experience with him; both personally and vicariously, i will stand by my statement -and if he were to read this he would be scratching his head wondering who wrote this meaning i have nothing to gain by promoting him
good luck in your search and with hot bluing!
bwgunsmith
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- Location
- bonfield, ontario
careful if your not a licenced smith dont charge for services they are cracking down hard and have set up a complaint line to report unlicenced smiths
Hahahahah once again I defy my bad memory. h ttp://www.kijiji.ca/v-commercial-industriel/ville-de-montreal/bluing-kit/1016035045?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
No idea who this guy is, if it's still available, or anything else. Get on it like ugly on an ape if you can. I'm doubtful you'll ever find a deal this good again.
gl
No idea who this guy is, if it's still available, or anything else. Get on it like ugly on an ape if you can. I'm doubtful you'll ever find a deal this good again.
gl
- Location
- Steel Town
Dennis is one of the best. You should see the workmanship on one of my rifles.
Question:
I have a gunsmith working on a vintage target rifle of mine, but doesn't have enough demand to do hot bluing. Is there anybody in southern Ontario that does bluing that I can contact? Nearer to Hamilton/Toronto.
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I welded up my own stainless tanks for parkerizing. I use to have one of the tanks that CanadaAmmo use to sell, but I found it not to be deep enough for some stuff. Have never done any bluing though. I also only use distilled water and not tap water due to the chemicals and impurities that can be found in tap water.
