K11 vs K31

I spent a couple hours yesterday sanding away the worst of the rust (trigger guard and trigger were the worst, followed by the buttplate). They are back to bare metal and just have a coat of oil on them for now. I thought I had a bottle of Cold Blue, but I was mistaken so I'll pick one up in the next few weeks. I assume the trigger guard and buttplate were originally blued? I can see from the trigger that was inside the stock that it was originally blued, but the other parts were so far gone I couldn't tell

I took the advice of Diopter above and ordered a 100m front site. I wished they had in stock a new bolt knob as mine is split right in half. I tried searching for a replacement, and couldn't find anything in Canada (Numrich had them). When I am finished with my trade school in 2 months and I'm back to work I think I might ask one of the machinists at work to make me a new bolt knob out of something like brass
Oxpho blue works great on the swiss rifles.

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I spent a couple hours yesterday sanding away the worst of the rust (trigger guard and trigger were the worst, followed by the buttplate). They are back to bare metal and just have a coat of oil on them for now. I thought I had a bottle of Cold Blue, but I was mistaken so I'll pick one up in the next few weeks. I assume the trigger guard and buttplate were originally blued? I can see from the trigger that was inside the stock that it was originally blued, but the other parts were so far gone I couldn't tell

I took the advice of Diopter above and ordered a 100m front site. I wished they had in stock a new bolt knob as mine is split right in half. I tried searching for a replacement, and couldn't find anything in Canada (Numrich had them). When I am finished with my trade school in 2 months and I'm back to work I think I might ask one of the machinists at work to make me a new bolt knob out of something like brass

https://store.theshootingcentre.com/schmidt-rubin-k11-lg11-lg1889-bolt-handle-knob/

These are reproduction pieces, and they are bakelite although the grain pattern on them makes them look like wood. We think they were done this way to differentiate them from originals.
 
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