Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
Unless you are Ed the torch the temp is not that high when recoloring/re-case hardening an action kind of a slow bake in bone meal charcoal....it's not a task for the back yard tinker'r for sure.

In all I've ever read or saw on vintage gun making I don't recall anyone dunking an action in a bucket of oil or water to harden it.

The actions were cast in molds...I thought shotgun action hardening was more just a surface hardening to prevent wear and still allow the action to have some flex and the color was just a by product of the process.


You saw it right here, folks.

Complete ignorance.


Best,
Ted


Should be unfathomable, but given that it is the homeless idiot, not so much.

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