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I bought a decent quality vintage German scope. I dont expect show quality or full restoration but the blue finish is severely faded to a variety of shades and silver in some areas. Will a cold blue help? Polish to silver and then cold blue or tool back it ? Does anyone refinish scope tubes? Etc.

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Cold blues can be all over the place with results. I've had best results with Oxpho Blue in cold blues, but it can't match a good rust blue.
If you can disassemble it and polish out the metal parts, anyone doing rust bluing can easily rust blue the pieces and have it looking like new again.

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I am trepidatious to disassemble lenses or internals. It a voodoo I dont understand.

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Well I was also with the first one I did! I set out a clean white towel on the table and then made up "spanners" from wood dowel and hacksaw blades to fit the various internal rings with notches. Just took my time making the little tools, and carefully laid it out where it could sit for the time it took to get metal parts finished.
Once the parts were done I simply reinstalled them as they were laid out on my towel and it worked. It's a bit daunting until you do it, and then it made me wonder why I was worried.


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