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I have been thinking about restocking and rebluing a Rem 700 .264 (rifle with sentimental value). The barrel is stainless steel that is plated in copper and iron then blued. Is it as simple as removing the bluing and rebluing, or is there more to it?
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Hot bluing or rust? Keep in mind-copper will degrade,if not kill, hot bluing salts.
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Bear in mind too that the final layer of iron on top of the copper is very thin, and one can easily 'burn' through it when prepping it for re-bluing. I would leave it alone.
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For what it's worth, and it is a long story, the last one I had to blue I sent the entire barreled action to Remington and they did an excellent job. I don't know if they have that much customer care anymore. Else, find someone who does Stainless bluing. Brownells may have a referral as they sell stainless bluing salts.
Dennis Potter
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Thanks for the advice, it isn't a must do project by any means, maybe I'll just restock it and call it good. Is it possible to simple strip it all the way to the stainless, and if so would the stainless be presentable?
Last edited by mngundog; 01/05/14 11:37 PM.
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A trick I learned is that when rust bluing, the original/old/existing bluing can be left as is and you can rust blue right on top of it.
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you might try Blue wonder. You can leave the original blue in place. Oy os a chemical reaction cold blue quite unlike any other bluing process. I use it for small parts that are hard to rust (water) blue. Very durable, unlike any other cold blue process. You could call them and ask if it would work on your gun.
The product has both gold and I believe silver in it.
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You might also try Oxphoblue from Brownell,w/o taking the old blue off.If it doesn't satisfy you, you still have the rest of the bottle for other uses.
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You may want to consider black chrome plating.
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I have used ceracote successfully to match rust blue. CCR refinishing (Google them) does a very good job with their house black.
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