Smoothing out a shotgun with toothpaste?

toothpaste

I've used tooth paste on my watch crystal to remove fine scratches. Worked fine. I didn't use the new whitening types. That may be too abrasive.
 
Toothpaste contains a very fine abrasive. They used to mine the special mineral (montmorillite?) here in SW Manitoba years ago. It is a great polish for brass, silver, gold, as it is very gentle. But I don't know how it would work on steel.

At worst, you'll do no damage. Valve grinding compound on the other hand, may be too aggressive.
 
B said:
Not in my experience, how are more scratches a good thing? My copy of Resident Evil 3 had to be thrown out cuz I heard it was a good idea....
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You gotta use the extra fine steel wool!:D

I just polished it with some toillet paper and it worked for me...:)
 
B said:
Not in my experience, how are more scratches a good thing? My copy of Resident Evil 3 had to be thrown out cuz I heard it was a good idea....
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Some people throw them in a shallow dish of boiling water too... Never tried that one personally though...
 
I read on the SASS boards how one shooter filled a SAA with toothpaste and sat down and worked the action a few hundred times - supposed to be a poor man's action job. Then agin, he could be full of sh*t.......
 
On shooting USA a few months ago they had some hot shot cowboy action shooter on the show that did just that. He jammed his peacemaker full of toothpaste and dryfired it bunch to smooth it out. Scouten called it a "colgate action job".

Not as stupid as it sounds I guess.
 
Yes I want to know if bears are attracted to toothpaste too... I have heard of using toothpaste as well. never tried it but someone let me know how well it works. Just got a new shotgun and the action is kinda rough.
 
Had scored a few resizeing dies in the past with small brass particles and/ or walnut shell media from the Tumbler by accident. Used toothpaste with bakeing soda as an ingredient along with a Dremel tool with soft buffing wheel to remove the scratches quite nicely.......ymmv !
 
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