T cut on bluing ?

[air-tech]

You can't remove scratches on blueing. Scratches on blueing implies the blue is no longer there where the scratch is. More scratching (which is what using an abrasive polish is) won't bring it back. Paint is different, there is the thickness of the paint and provided the scratches don't go through the full thickness, you can "cut" the surrounding area so that in effect you reduce the paint thickness to what it is in the depths of the scratch, so the latter is ground out. Which you can only do a very limited number of times, obviously.

[thisisdonald]

Just had a thought, maybe the lads using tcut successfully have black enamelled BSA incorrectly identified as being blued? I reckon a little tcut would work on those.

[njaw]

Talking to an old chap the other day , reminiscing about his old airguns .
He claims that they used to use car polish such as T Cut to remove minor scratches from bluing .
Could this be right ? Or is he pulling my chain ?

Depends if it was actual bluing or lacquer/paint.

T-cut would remove bluing but can be used on paint very effectively.

[rapidresponse1]

id not try that on blueing

[StellaArtois Sr]

Just had a thought, maybe the lads using tcut successfully have black enamelled BSA incorrectly identified as being blued? I reckon a little tcut would work on those.

No I haven't got a BSA, but I have plenty of Air Arms, Walthers, Weihrauchs and Dianas which I use it on. No problems at all, if used like I have stated Lightly 👍