[Brother10]

I have an old Remington Model 17A shotgun which is missing a good bit of the blueing and has specks of what appears to be rust on the surface. I need to remove the rust, but would like to salvage what remains of the blueing. If this is possible, I would like some suggestions on a good way to accomplish this. Thanks for all assitance.

[HSMITH]

A little bit of motor oil on some OOOO steel wool is about as gingerly as you can go and still remove the rust. It will polish the blueing a little but you will hurt yourself trying to remove blueing with OOOO steel wool, it just won't take it off without a TON of effort.

[Quartus]

Any good gun oil and a good rubbing with a rag will take off a lot of surface rust without hurting the bluing. If it's too deep for that, the blueing there is already gone.

A piece of scrap leather (lightweight stuff) can be substituted for a rag for more stubborn spots.

The problem is that blueing is pretty close to the same thing a rust, chemically. Any chemical that takes off the rust is likely to take off the bluing.

[vertigo7]

If it's just light surface rust, try going over the spots gently with a #2 pencil eraser. As silly as it sounds, it actually works.

[CWatson]

Blue Wonder gun cleaner and oooo steal wool.After that I would touch up the bluing with Blue Wonder Blue kit.This cold blue does not stick to the original bluing,only the bare metal that way the surrounding area does not darken.CW

[cpileri]

I second the BW, here's why:
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=68062&SearchTerms=blue
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[magnumjim]

Midway USA sells a product thet looks like a dish scouring
pad that removes lite rust without removing the blueing.
It works great and you don't need oil or anything else.