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well my slide on my firestar was nasty looking over half blueing gone,swirly wierd look so i seen a thread from aways back on louisiana hot sauce removes blueing and it took about an hour, then hotwater and soap then blowdryed and polished to a shine with turtle wax bumper and chrome,anyways i know its a cheap gun but if i have the slide sent off for a plated finish do i remove extracter,firing pin,etc or does the shop do it.the frame seems parkarized,i read also if i use good polish ,i can leave it the way it is or should i hardchrome.

[rcmodel]

Leave it together.
The plating shop will dissemble, polish, plate, reassemble, and test for proper fit of all the parts after the plating build-up.

If you leave it bare metal, it will eventually rust no matter what you do.

rcmodel

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thanks, i was just making sure,as it being a star i was hoping that a reputable plater had the knowledge,and hoping they would work on it.

[grendelbane]

Well, I never heard of using hot sause to remove blue! I have cleaned brass in sugar free Kool-Ade, but the hot sauce trick is a new one.

Many food items contain enough acid to damage blue. Fruit juices and blood are rough on blued finishes, as is anything containing vinegar, (which is probably why the hot sauce worked). The Kool-Ade trick works on cleaning brass because it contains so much citric acid. I some times clean grungy brass in a citric acid solution, and it works quite well.

Boric acid is a classic blue remover. I recently used a product called Evaporust, and it worked quite well. I am not too sure of its ingredients, but the MSDS looks very user friendly.

To make things more complicated, acids can also be used in the bluing process. Most rust blues contain acid. Some even recommend urine for rust bluing, though I have not tried that one.

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thats some cool info,you probably dont want to hear this,speaking of urine grendalbane,ive been real sick off and on with pain from a few surgeries on my hip and pelvis from a motorcycle accident, and hernia problems and just got back from doctor and my urine is hemetic,got blood in my whiz,scared the crap outa me ,now i go down wednesday for another abdominable ultrasound again,think ill say an extra prayer tonight.i wish everything would heal up with a little less pain.

[Marlin 45 carbine]

it's likely something simple probably related to anti-biotics after the cutting. bladder maybe kidneys. particularly if you haven't drank plenty of water.
good luck friend.

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i hope it aint much wrong and i havnt drunk as much water as i should either but i have lost 25 lbs from 310 to 285,trying for 250 sure is hard.