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  1. 26-10-2019, 06:01 AM #1
    cinedux
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    What is the best way to blacken polished brass?

    Ideas please you 'restoration chaps'?
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  2. 26-10-2019, 06:48 AM #2
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    Birchwood Casey make a product which blackens brass. It comes in a small blue bottle. I’ve never used it been have seen it before.

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  3. 26-10-2019, 10:33 AM #3
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    Thank you.

    Will give it a go!
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    ....ive used the above,its nor very good im afraid
    lots of this stuff,bluing,blackening,paint strippers and the like available to joe public just havent got the same effect as the stuff from yesteryear
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  5. 26-10-2019, 11:56 AM #5
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    Brass blacking

    Never tried it but a post on here ages ago recommended this ; SAICtoneDB from S.A.J.C. Southdown Abrasives and
    Industrial Chemicals .
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  6. 26-10-2019, 12:45 PM #6
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    Ive always used Phillips gun blue and have even blackened brass with it. Never liked the Birchwood Casey gun blue. To Me it's just watered down P?SS and doesn't really work that well.
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