Colour case hardening.

[BaskervilleDog]

Hi, does anyone know where I can get proper colour case hardening done in the UK? I have a couple of muzzle loading pistol side plates that badly need re-doing and I wanted to keep the gun as close to original spec as possible.

[TA6319]

you can do a verson of it yourself

http://www.knighton-tools.co.uk/acat..._COMPOUND.html

[enfield2band]

you can do a verson of it yourself

http://www.knighton-tools.co.uk/acat..._COMPOUND.html

Hi,

Case hardening is not the same as colour case hardening.

Before the introduction of chemical case hardening compounds the old gunmakers would use bits of leather cut into small pieces, or use fragmented bone.The objective was to infuse carbon into the metal and case harden it. The patterned colouring was an effect of that.

Do you recall that some AYA shotguns had a pattern on their actions? This was done deliberately for the effect by using the old methods.

You can do it yourself if you can get the part/s hot enough for long enough.

Atb.

[Rikard]

If you google Colour Case Hardening UK, you will find them listed

[Craig-P]

Give Shaun at ISP Air Rifles a shout

[jamesg]

Here you go.

http://www.gunrestoration.co.uk/

I'm sure the above will do a very good job.

I have done it but bone charcoal is hard to get had to ship it in from Brownells.

50% bone charcoal, 50% fine charcoal mixed well together, pack in a heavy steel container to exclude all the oxygen heat(to forgotten the temp can look it up Tuesday) and then dump contents as fast as possible into bubbling water preferably with the lid coming off under water. The water becomes seasoned after lots of use so should never be changed.


James