Uberti 1860 Brass receiver swirl marks

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Hello, i Bought a Uberti 1860 henry and decided to polish the receiver since it was tarnish and realize i could see lots of swirl marks under the light. It's my first brass receiver firearms, is it normal it's cover with micro swirl marks or do all brass parts eventually get marks?
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Brass is soft, and marks easily.

You pretty much have to choose between having a complete set of marks that you can live with, or polishing the whole area up to a point that you will see every fingerprint. Or you just let it weather to a steady state.

Different metal polishes have different grit levels too. A coarser grit polish will leave noticeable lines.
 
Thanks, maybe my metal polish like you said has a coarser grit, i think i will let it weather from now on. I'm just really disappointed i made all those marks...
 
If the scratches bother you you can try polishing with a finer grit. I use to polish the brass on my muzzleloaders but it is a lot of work if you use them any amount. I let it go to a natural patina now. The finer grit you use the less scratches you will see.
 
You can also use spray on "Clear" Flecto Varathane to stop the oxidization.

It will wear off from carrying, but it's easily replaced with a couple of spray bursts at the end of the season.

We used to use that method for silver serving trays as well as brass plated serving trays. Kept everything nice and shiney.
 
I bought one 30 plus years ago in 44-40 and haven't shot it yet.
It has a James Bond serial number, it is the carbine version with the rifle sling attachments.
It is a great rifle to display with my Spencer rifle also in 44-40 which I shoot.
 
I like Never Dull cotton in the can. It’s cotton with some mineral spirits in it. I find it doesn’t scratch and leaves a really high polish that I maintain with a mini fibre cloth to get rid of fingerprints.
 
Flitz is a great polish, I have been using it for decades to maintain my knives. I rub my brass furniture with Flitz and 4-0 steel wool without adverse texturing on an 800 grit base.

I keep it well away from my guns, though. I have found it doesn't play well with bluing.
 
Don’t monkey it. Just use flitz, nothing corser. You can also keep it shiny with Brasso.
You are just killing futur value to do home polishing. Spraying it it’s a bubba’s ways to screw it up.
 
Denisb said:
I use Autosol and a microfiber cloth for my Henry. If you want a swirl-free finish, successively finer polishing grits are the only way to go.
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Yeah Solvol Autosol is the stuff!

Used the Flitz, used the Never Dull (might be a second place pick) but AutoSol and a soft clean cotton rag was always the last step in making shiny sh1t SHINY!

I did a LOT of shiny sh1t for retirement presents and posting presents at the last unit I was in in the Forces, and I can say that among other things, a set of MicroMesh padded abrasives (Up to 14,000 grit) and AutoSol for the last step.

One key thing I learned, is that you can go an awful long way up the grit scale, and still see swirl marks, if you are swirling the polish around. You want to keep the scratch pattern running in only on direction. When you step up, use that same direction, and if you get to a point where you think you are done with that grit, then do the next. You only have to back-step one or two grits that way, if you are not satisfied.
Worst case is that you only see marks in one particular angle, rather than from all of them.
 
Well thanks all for the tips, i applied some brasso and it did reduce the swirl, but those multi step polishing are really starting to sound to time intensive. I was already on the fence between tarnish look and shiny look, looks like tarnished won :)
 
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