[Shrinkmd]

I was inspecting my 625 and it appeared to have a tiny rust spot on the frame, left of the cylinder release. I scrubbed at it with my fingernail, then some CLP and a bronze brush. It is almost completely gone, just a tiny grain of sand size freckle left. I tried taking an "after" picture but you can't see what I'm talking about.

Should I worry about this? It doesn't look like powder fouling, and the gun was clean (or so I thought) when I put it away. Other items in the safe are fine, so I don't think there is a moisture problem. Should I just send it back to S&W, or maybe let the CLP sit on it a while and scrub some more.

I'm upset, this is a pretty new gun.

[Master Blaster]

Oh my gosh you have a case of the rare gun cancer. That spot is actually a tumor growing from the inside of your gun.:eek: Sometimes this Tumor spreads to the hand and arm of the shooter while they are at the range, and even to other shooteres on the line.:eek: The next person to arrive finds a crystalized rust statue of the shooter still holding the gun. Fortunately I have dealt with this situation before, :pSo I think you should send me the gun for safe disposal to protect you and the other shooters on the line.

Just kidding,:)

First dont be tempted to grind it off with a dremel or a gas powered angle grinder..:banghead: That will make it worse, I know this from experience. Second hit it with some CLP, or polish it with a little flitz on a qtip (flitz will remove any rust) and put it away. Your gun is going to get nicks and scratches and develop imperfections if you shoot it.

[Snapping Twig]

I recently bought a rifle with lots of rust from a salt cured stock manufactured in the early 70's.

I used bronze wool and light oil to remove the rust, then I used alcohol to completely remove any oil and once dry I used oxpho blue twice to re blue the affected parts.

Once done I applied oil, in this case synthetic motor oil as it has engineered properties of bonding to metal.

Even knowing I did this, if you looked, you couldn't tell where the factory blue ends and my cold blue begins.

Recently I bought a 586-1 that needed some re bluing in spots, so I repeated this procedure and again - perfect.