slicksleeve
Member
Greetings Ladies and Gents of the High Road. I have been working all summer on learning to slow rust blue firearms. I sought a better solution after trying cold blue, that was a joke. It rusted the first week. So I ordered the Wheeler boiling tank and Pilkington's Classic American Rust Blue from Midwayusa. I made the boiler out of an old gas grill. It dosen't get hot enough to completely boil the water, but hot enough to do the job. My first guinea pig was a Mossberg Model 600 C-Lect choke that belongs to a friend. I blued the barrel, choke selector, and the bolt that bolts the barrel to the magazine tube. The magazine tube was missing, so I had to order a new one. The receiver is aluminum, so it got Duracoated in gun blue color, and baked in the oven. So far, these parts have been finished for about a month in the humid Alabama weather, and have not rusted a bit. I am very excited, this is long process with very rewarding results. The pictures aren't great, but the best I can do. Sorry for no before pics of the shotgun, but trust me, it was as beaten as a beater could get!