Rust on Stainless Steel Gun?

[dfariswheel]

03cobra456:

A good place to buy Scotchbrite pads is in automotive supply houses. They sell these for use in painting cars, and they carry more "grits" than most other places.

The green pads at the grocery store may be too coarse.

 

[Steve Wynn]

I'm with the majority here. NO STEEL WOOL on stainless steel. IT WILL EMBED ITSELF IN THE SS. They also make stainless steel steel wool. I think I bought it from Brownells.

Scotchbrite comes in several different grades. White is extremely fine, grey,red, green then black. Maybe others too.

Steve

 

[Troutman]

After you get the rust off and clean the firearm.
Take a look at

http://www.sentrysolutions.com/TufClothkew.shtml

Tuf Cloth is good to use if you carry 24/7. In areas of salt content use

http://www.sentrysolutions.com/MarineTufCloth.shtml

I use this on my scuba equipment after a dive. I rinse equipment off with fresh-water and let dry, then wipe with this cloth.

For cleaning of firearms, Hoppes #9 is inexpensive and works well. Lots of choices out their for cleaning products.

 

[Jim Watson]

If your stainless steel is so soft that steel wool imbeds in it (Or is it being sucked into the pores that hold the RocketScienceUberNinjaLube?) I think you have a very inferior grade of stainless steel.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

HiTech, stainless steel in guns still contains iron, just put a magnet to it and that is confirmed. Stainless just means it will "stain---less"

 

[brickeyee]

"If your stainless steel is so soft that steel wool imbeds in it (Or is it being sucked into the pores that hold the RocketScienceUberNinjaLube?) I think you have a very inferior grade of stainless steel."

See those nice little scratches in the 'brushed finish'?
You will run carbon steel from the steel wool into them.
It has nothing to do with the grade of stainless. It has to do withthe softness of the steel wool and the hardness of the stainless.
Steel wool is pretty soft stuff. It will 'smear' onto the surface and stick.

Certain grades of stainless can be made non-magnetic, but it depends on the exact crystal structure of the steel.

 

[.45FMJoe]

Bit confused here....you have rust on stainless steel? Stainless steel does not rust.

It's really "stain less" steel. It is not impervious, rather more resistant than regular carbon steel. But stainless still contains carbon steel and the carbon is what rusts.

 

[mete]

This thread is getting funnier all the time !! I might as well through out my Metallurgy degree and start over !!!

 

[Jim Watson]

Steel wool is pretty soft stuff. It will 'smear' onto the surface and stick.

Well, I haven't seen that phenomenon. I steel wooled the rust off that SA with no apparent residue and no stains from retained wool. Nor on S&W revolvers with coke wooled off the cylinders.