[retgarr]

I am having a bit of a problem. I had someone help me with my VZ58 build. They pushed in the barrel for me and silver soldered the flash suppressor. Unfortunately the silver solder job was a bit sloppy. There is lot's of texture and detail at that part of the rifle. What is the best way to cleam up the silver solder? As it stands now it is less than sightly. Can I fix this?

[rcmodel]

Needle files and a lot of work!

Once excess silver-solder is stuck to steel, the only way to get it all off is with a file & sandpaper.

Then when you get down to clean steel, cold touch-up blue.

[RogersPrecision]

A torch and a wire brush works for me.

[rcmodel]

Maybe if you do it all the time.
But if you do it all the time, you don't make big messes in the first place, I betcha!

For him, a torch is going to undo the job he got the solder-solder mess from in the first place.

[retgarr]

That and it's a high temp solder. A torch would probably harden everything around the solder too.