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Posted: 10/5/2009 7:01:34 PM EDT
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Probably a milled receiver top cover. They are thicker material and lack the notch for the bulged trunnion.
Milled cover on top, stamped on the bottom:  A few minutes with a dremel and it'll work. |
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Posted: 10/6/2009 1:45:46 PM EDT
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Neat, didn't know they made milled top covers.
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Posted: 10/6/2009 3:01:19 PM EDT
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Mine has some bad pitting and is missing some bluing but other than that its not bent or anything.
I cant afford to get the gun finished but maybe I could spring to reblue or try to cold blue this top cover? The milled cover is substantially beefier :D. |
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Posted: 10/6/2009 3:12:20 PM EDT
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If this is for a Century build, try aluma-hyde for a durable, easy to apply finish. I've used it numerous times with excellent results.
Otherwise, oxpho-blue is a great cold blue product, my personal favorite. Don't know how well it will match a parked rifle however. |
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Posted: 10/6/2009 4:47:23 PM EDT
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If this is for a Century build, try aluma-hyde for a durable, easy to apply finish. I've used it numerous times with excellent results. Otherwise, oxpho-blue is a great cold blue product, my personal favorite. Don't know how well it will match a parked rifle however. Nice! I will have to get some of that alumahyde since its a century...the grey parkerizing will probably match it 99%. First I have to grind this thing down, which I plan to do once I get my handguards finished. |
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Posted: 10/9/2009 6:29:34 PM EDT
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I dremeled some off the cover where it looks like it was hanging up on (its got too much material on the left side). Well its almost there and I cant figure out what to shave off to get it to fit...
I finally got it! I took just a tad too much off the bottom left side but its not nearly as bad as the one I got with the rifle. I had to take some material off the front of the cover, and it fits tiiiiiiigggghht! Definately a good thing. |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 7:46:35 AM EDT
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There are tons of ways to finish something, but the best thing to do is stop the oxidation. I have a rust away that I use to get rid of rust. But without some sort of rust prevention (oil works) it will rust again. Find a local build group, many have metal refinishing figured out to some level. We do Duracoating quite a bit, but even do parkerizing and blueing. If you can't do that, just get the rust stopped and the metal oiled until you can.
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