Re: It is that easy
If you are just 'messing around' on a Saturday afternoon and you don't care about how your shooter really looks and you want to try something..you ought to fire blue all the parts (heck, just take the grips off, stick the whole danged gun in the kitchen oven, bake till nicely blued (broil for about 35 minutes ought to do it) and then take them 'weenie-tong things to snatch it out and drop it in a bowl of cranberry vinegarette (don't be put out by the smell). It might look like crap but you can always sand it down, polish it up and start over again (that's the beauty of lower temperatures on older antique guns). Keep it up till the wife comes home and kicks your sorry butt outta the kitchen. Once you get 'real good' at it then it is time to start on your not so hot collectables. One thing you will find is that you can actually cook dinner along with some of the parts if you should choose to disassemble it. Separate containers is a good idea. I once fed an omlette containing a takedown lever to my boss's wife and boy was I embarrassed. Disclaimer: Take Shadow's advice. (No 'dinkum' is fair dinkum).
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