Want to find Hot Bluing Chemicals locally

[burmisdog]

Hi
I'm not happy with results from cold re-blue, and want to try my hand at hot re-bluing. Recipes call for 65% Sodium Hydroxide, 25% Potassium Nitrate and 10% Sodium Nitrate.
Where can I buy these chemicals in Western Canada region?

thanks

 

[rtaylor1956]

Ask the pharmacist in Shoppers Drug mart, I recently bought a kilo of Potassium Nitrate from them very cheaply.

 

[guntech]

Sodium Nitrite... not nitrate... is the recipe I used for many years...

 

[firestick]

Burmisdog:
Sodium hydroxide is also known as lye. Available at Home Hardware stores (3kg for about $20). Be careful to get PURE sodium hydroxide, Not drain cleaner ( ie: Drano), which is mixed with aluminum.

 

[Mauser98]

Hi
I'm not happy with results from cold re-blue, and want to try my hand at hot re-bluing. Recipes call for 65% Sodium Hydroxide, 25% Potassium Nitrate and 10% Sodium Nitrate.
Where can I buy these chemicals in Western Canada region?

thanks

Do yourself a favor and research slow rust bluing. There is a fair amount of information on this site and on Google.

The process is a bit more labor intensive than hot bluing but it can be done at home without setting up an elaborate tank system with boiling hot chemicals.

Slow rust bluing gives a beautiful finish that is as tough as nails. Here's a sample I did recently.

 

[burmisdog]

Thanks guys for the info and tips.
Mauser98: that is an awseome looking job on the rifle....I will do more research on this process.

 

[savagefan]

Sodium nitrite is available from butcher supply outlets, make sure it is pure and not mixed with salt as a good to go cure.

 

[David Henry]

salts

I have an unopened drum of Oxanate #7 if it helps you get started. David.

 

[guntech]

I have an unopened drum of Oxanate #7 if it helps you get started. David.

I switched to Brownell's Oxanate #7 years ago and have never regretted it... good stuff...