Polishing to Bare Steel

[Bearded Rockape]

Every minute polishing something is a minute spent not using it

Low to zero maintenance finishes for me every time.....

The most sensible comment on this thread!

Apart from the corrosion, people who polish down to the metal obviously don't have anything else to do with their time.

[gingernut]

I stripped and polished my Crosman SA 6 cowboy pistol.
It looks much better than flaking black paint.
It wont rust as it appears to be made out of crap.
So you can polish a turd

[magicniner]

Hey GN!
The SA 6 is hardly a turd, it's a lovely gun

[gingernut]

The gun is great.
The metal is crap. Although having checked it is probably aluminium.
Fultons at Bisley had some Browning leather basket weave holsters.
Really good Quality.
"£10 each sir as there is no call for them - dont know what they fit."
I bought two.
One fits the SA6 and adds at least £30 to the value.
The other had 357 on the back and fits my Crosman 38T.

[Pinpoint]

just as an aside ,if you take your beautifully polished pride and joy to a good platers ,you can have a nickel finish which is durable ,rust free and very very pretty.not much good at blending in with your surrounding if you are shooting for the table.but shiny and durable if looked after and will last longer than you..i have a couple of obsolete cal revolvers that are still desirable at 1oo yrs old..cheers greasemonkey

Where do you get this done and how much for a pistol like the HW45?

[Greenfingers]

I stripped and polished my Crosman SA 6 cowboy pistol.
It looks much better than flaking black paint.
It wont rust as it appears to be made out of crap.
So you can polish a turd

That made me laugh out loud and spit tea all over my keyboard.
but then if you have an old ratcatcher for example with really bad blueing as they all are anyway and dont want to spend a load of dosh on a reblue, polishing to a very high finish will only require as much attention as a blued gun. mine has never rusted and i just wipe it over when iv finished shooting it with an oily rag ..job done.and its been like that for well over a year now.

[ratgunner]

Degrease,

Soak in hydrochloric acid,

Drop into perforated plaggy bag full of drain cleaner,

Dump in English Channel,

Job done.


Route Two


Fire five times at close range,

Bolt it to your mates rear BMW spoiler,
And give it large,


Moss Side Rocks!



Realistically

Both Chrome plate and Cyanide Blueing are porous,

Wax for chrome, Oil for blueing, Sorted Innit!

[magicniner]

Realistically

Both Chrome plate and Cyanide Blueing are porous,

Wax for chrome, Oil for blueing, Sorted Innit!

Chrome is porous, that's why decorative chrome plate has copper and nickel layers before the chrome

[ratgunner]

British or Detroit Chrome Yes!

Mexican or other No!

[tatsumi]

Only metal worth plating is c**p metal. No blade I ever made has rusted, as yet.

As for polishing guns its preference of the owner and imo an easyer and more forgiving finnish.

[Pinpoint]

I have spent far too much of the evning looking to see how much it costs to nickel plate a pistol. If anyone can put me out of my misery I would be most appreciative. To get it done professionally are we talking £50, £100, £200?