Posted: 3/10/2009 5:34:25 AM EDT
| Anyone have access to a hot blueing set up, I 've got a bunch of mags that need sand blasted and re-finished. Thanks Pluckmaster |
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HEY
I can;t help you. But I wanted to warn you about hot blue. My dad used to build black powder pistol kits. He was working on this sweet 1858 Remington and decided to hot blue it. He was bluing one part at a time and the solution started to evaporate and get to low. He decided to add more water while the solution was still cooking. Real bad idea the stuff exploded when he added the water. Burned him pretty bad he was lucky it didn't get in his eyes . He later finished that pistol and the hot blue was perfect. After remembering all this I remembered how he did it. All he did was use a bread pan to hold the solution and cooked it on a Coleman stove. It looked easy just don't add water when it's hot. 
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Hot bluing.
Water boils off continuously and the temperature will creep up. If it gets too hot it goes super caustic and will rot your pan into a bloom of orange iron oxide. That wrecks the solution too and your blued parts come out looking like "Fall Camoflage". (I let that happen during my first experiment with this using an old iron baking pan. I now use a 10 gage SS pan. Much tougher!) Just "slip" hot water slowly down the side of the pan into the solution to minimize the boiling forces it generates. You add water as needed to keep the temperature at the right point. Do use gloves and goggles! Here's a great article on home hot bluing. I've used this method over a couple years now and it works great! http://www.geocities.com/kemays/formula.htm?200813 |
