Removing varnish from a complete win 94 ??Update
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Heat it up with a heat gun and add some penetrating oil.
It should find its way down.
I’d do this a few times.
Take as much off the busted screw as necessary to remove the innars.
I would use a round ball dremel grinding bit slightly smaller than the receiver hole
Ham fisted approach will cause you pain.
Well got it totally disassembled, what a mess.. lol only 2 screws ruined.
Question though
On the bottom of the barrel (under the for stock)it was stamped 30 wcf 54.
And on on the top of the barrel it’s stamped 30 30 Winchester.
I know it’s the same round, but it usually is stamped one or the other
Question though
On the bottom of the barrel (under the for stock)it was stamped 30 wcf 54.
And on on the top of the barrel it’s stamped 30 30 Winchester.
I know it’s the same round, but it usually is stamped one or the other
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That is when that bawrill was screwed on the receiver.
It doesn’t necessarily mean the date when the rifle was nee’d.
Should be a couple three letters in that script as well.
It would identify the gunsmith in Winchesters armoury.
It doesn’t necessarily mean the date when the rifle was nee’d.
Should be a couple three letters in that script as well.
It would identify the gunsmith in Winchesters armoury.
Butcherbill
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Sure they can, I’ve cold blued a 70’s m94. It came out great.
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rust covering - you probably already know - is possible to turn red rust into black rust "bluing" by boiling it, carding it, boiling, etc. until dark enough for you - final soak in oil - seems to work out fine if the thing is not pitted too badly. Else, will probably have to fill pits with Bondo or Epoxy - sand smooth and paint it. Or live with pits.Looks awesome.
I got some rust covered in a good helping of varnish piled on top.
Ok I will back up a bit on the bluing of 94 receivers from the 70’s. Later on in the 70’s they seem to have solved a bit of the problem on those rifles. The ones that are post 64 and into the early 70’s have a microscopic layer of iron electroplated to them that allowed them to take bluing. A lot of them did not react to hot bluing well and finishes turned color. Levers and mag tubes were fine, so not that some paste type bluing did not work, I would suggest that the parts would not end up the same color is all. If your bluing worked job worked fine, that’s the end result you want
Butcherbill
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Serial # put it as a 1975 year of manufacture, first two coats of cold blue went on splotchy looking. The other 4 were smooth and darker with each application, it was taken down to the white with multiple grits of wet dry paper wrapped around a flat file. Degreased very thoroughly.
Here’s the before picture lol
Here’s the before picture lol
Butcherbill
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Compared to how it started I was pretty sure I couldn’t make it any worse lol!
Cold blue may work if the extremely thin iron plating is still intact.
Post 64's use a steel that does not blue well, so the factory iron plates that steel and then blues it. Any polishing at all removes this thin iron plating.
