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    Cool Brown sauce and vinegar ( LOL)

    was given a tip by our local RFD as to the best way to remove old bluing was Brown sauce (any brand) and vinegar (I Laughted) but it worked as its still acid and was cheaper,as for the cleaner/degreaser the wifes nail polish remover and her face pads as wipes hardly cost ME anything tried it yesterday and it worked great but less brown sauce on the eggs in the future seen what it did to the actionI also have used valve grinding paste finish off with the fine you can still get the double ended tins today,I used to it recrown a barrel over the weekend turned out fine
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    My msn cave is the dining room table the wife is not happy .

    How do you use the grinding paste to remove the pitting.
    Would I use the paste on some wet and dry cut into strips and used shoe shine style
    Or would I need to buy an electric bench grinder and add some polishing mops

    The deepest pits are on the breech block in the photos the ones on the barrel are starting to shift
    5 hours of sanding with 80 and 240 grit wet n dry .
    I want to finish the barrel before really starting the cylinder more seriously.

    I have a vulcan in the same state maybe slightly worse after 27 years in a loft so I need to get some good results with the we falcon so I can make the vulcan as nice as I can.
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    Quote Originally Posted by davymole View Post
    was given a tip by our local RFD as to the best way to remove old bluing was Brown sauce (any brand) and vinegar (I Laughted) but it worked as its still acid and was cheaper,as for the cleaner/degreaser the wifes nail polish remover and her face pads as wipes hardly cost ME anything tried it yesterday and it worked great but less brown sauce on the eggs in the future seen what it did to the actionI also have used valve grinding paste finish off with the fine you can still get the double ended tins today,I used to it recrown a barrel over the weekend turned out fine
    Would also agree with the BROWN SAUCE method but only use that "Houses of Parliament brand" as it Handles Pitting !
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