Taking out scratchs from dull stainless barreled actions??

jurban

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I have a older Browning action and barrel that is stainless but not the polished stainless it is the dull brushed stainless and it shows scratch's easier than polished stainless steel :eek:. I would like to take these scratch's out. Any idea's on how a guy could do this?
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Much depth to the scratches? SS can be polished with jeweller's rouge and a buffing wheel. Then bead or Aluminium Oxide blasted to get the matte finish back. Not exactly a home work shop job if you don't have the blaster. Princess Auto has a hand held sand blaster on sale for $19.99. Don't know how well it'd work on SS though.
 
Scatchs are not deep at all just surface stuff just want to clean it up before I order a new stock I have a huge machine shop with a few different sandblaster I own. I was wondering if I could hit the action and barrel with a sand blaster but didn't know what media a guy should use or if I would screw it up by doing that.
 
Sand would give you a slightly different matte finish. Brownell's sells glass beads and Al Oxide. The Al Oxide comes in 6 and 15 pound containers of Fine($24.97US for 6 lbs, $51.95 for 15 lbs), Coarse($19.97/6 lbs, $51.95/15 lbs) and Extra Coarse($19.97/6 lbs, $41.95/15 lbs).
I suspect the Fine would be what you need. Don't think 6 lbs would be enough, but you do it more often than I ever would.
The glass beads run $78.25US for 270+(.0021-.0005") beads in a 50 pound pail. They're used to get the soft matte finish. I'd hate to think what the shipping would cost. Couldn't imagine you not being able to get that size here though. Call your supplier.
 
Go to Rona.

Buy either 0 or 000 syntehtic wool (depending on how fine you want your finish to appear).

I forget which one it is, but one of them is the exact same finish as on the Brushed Ruger Stainless Revolvers... it's like an eraser of scratches.

I love the stuff.
 
Any of idea of what sort of pressure you'd need to blast the metal with when using the glass beads.

Guess I can use an old blued barrel I have to test it out.
 
If the scratches aren't too deep, a good glass bead blast will bring it back to original. That is probably what was originally used anyway.

If you need an excuse to buy a new toy, go to Princess auto and get a bench top blaster for a couple hundred bucks. They don't sell the glass bead media, but you can get it at KBC Tools for fairly cheap. (Correction: checked the PA catalogue and they do sell it. Didn't sell it when I bought my blaster though :( )

If you don't need/want a new tool. Take it to any respectable machine shop and they should be able to bead blast it for fairly cheap.

Any other method used on a bead blasted finish is going to look like hell in my opinion. It just won't match up with the original finish very well.
 
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