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Unread 12-29-2009, 12:09 AM   #16
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Finished 4 cycles of rust bluing. Boiling water does NOT convert rust on nickle steel into Fe3O4 well. After carding, more "floating" rust on nickle steel was brushed away.....

So, Thor and PoliceLuger were correct. Nickle steel (even a 3.5% one) does not blue as good as regular carbon steel.
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