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What's the best way to remove an oil stain on my kimber's .45 stainless barrel hood? I'm afraid what scotch pads and sandpaper will do, so I'm thinking my best option is to shoot it out
Get a Dremel and the associated head and polishing compound for stainless steel. You don't want to be more abusive than you have to be. If you haven't used a dremel before than buy a piece of 416 or 440 stainless and get used to polishing it before attempting to polish the barrel. If you become adept you could also polish the throat, although with a different head and compound.
You will mess it up with a Dremel.
If you look closely I bet it has fine scratches running 90 degrees to the barrel.
The only way to duplicate that is the way I told you too in post #5.
Polishing with a Dremel will result in a high gloss polish that won't match the factory finish at all, and it will look bad in very short order from the slide rubbing across it.
I'd rather not purchase a dremel if I can get away with that. I'd like to do it manually if I couldnt. I think the Bar Keeper's friend sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure what the chemicals will do to stainless steel. I assume if you use it on sinks it would be okay.
RC why do you recommend black emery over sand paper? 400 sounds a little harsh if we were talking sand paper, but I assume its different for black emery?
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