Again, this has been an excellent thread. It has helped organize those random bits of knowledge floating around in my skull for 50+ years. I have a couple of questions still.
1. Besides super glue and epoxies, do you use either carpenters or a hide glue when repairing cracks? I know the new synthetics have advantages but wonder if there is still a place for the old varieties.
2. Flitz and SemiChrome are both very fine, as in grit, polishing compounds. Has anyone used either for bolts or the other bits that would have been polished or does it remove too much. My distant memory, the part that still works, recalls a Flitz seller at the local shows that sat polishing an old Colt DA revolver (prewar) at every show I ran into him at. His point was to prove that it didn't harm the original deep blue finish.
While I realize we have Ren Wax and other better protective products; I recall that in the 50s & 60s as a teen, my favorite protective coatings were Hoppes No.9, Rig and Johnson's paste floor wax for those seldom used pieces. Johnsons served me well on wood and metal for decades in the humid Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast environment.
