I have brought the kit that a national tire store sells to reblue my Norc 1911, but it won't stay blued. So am I doing somthing wrong? Most likely I am but just in case the chemicals that came in the kit are substandard, were or who sells a better blueing kit/chemical?
Where to get the best gun blue?
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handofzeus
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The best kit I've used is Blue Wonder.The problem is that it's hard to find up here on the best of days. The second issue is that they have suspended production until they deal with a 'shelflife' issue. If you can wait a few months, I'd hang on until Blue Wonder is back on the shelves. It wears like iron and if you follow the directions exactjy, the results are fantastic.
I was at General Gun in Windsor today looking at blueing products and I'm pretty sure I saw Blue Wonder there on the shelf in small bottles. I will be back there on Thursday and can double check for you if you like. I know for sure they have Brownell's Oxpho Blue cuz that is what I was looking for.
If they have it I'm sure we could figure out a way to get a bottle shipped your way if you like.
If they have it I'm sure we could figure out a way to get a bottle shipped your way if you like.
If you want a cheap bluing that stays put, you pretty much gotta go with a rust blue.
There are a couple posts on guys projects, here on CGN.
Rust blue is a bunch of work, but you can do it anywhere you can boil enough water to submerge your parts.
You would be a lot better off to save some money, do your own prep work, and hand the parts off to someone that has a bluing setup.
For the most part, anything that comes in a bottle claiming to be 'the solution' likely won't be. For the money you will spend trying all the second best stuff, you will be dollars ahead just skipping the process to the real thing.
Cheers
Trev
There are a couple posts on guys projects, here on CGN.
Rust blue is a bunch of work, but you can do it anywhere you can boil enough water to submerge your parts.
You would be a lot better off to save some money, do your own prep work, and hand the parts off to someone that has a bluing setup.
For the most part, anything that comes in a bottle claiming to be 'the solution' likely won't be. For the money you will spend trying all the second best stuff, you will be dollars ahead just skipping the process to the real thing.
Cheers
Trev
Actually, you dont even need a tank of water to rust blue. A heat gun works just fine. Wouldn't do a rifle that way but I've done lot's of small parts with just a heat gun. I dont think I'd boil water just to do a pistol. I don't know much about Norinco but maybe the alloy is such that it won't blue properly? I know the Chinese put melamine in baby food, Lord knows what they'd put in their steel.
Mike
Mike
I like to use Birchwood Casey's Super Blue™ Liquid Gun Blue it makes things real black and has a long wear life good for that old steel that is hard to blue they have kits too.
