Help with restoration.

lugerholsterrepair · 06-28-2013, 06:19 PM

Joseph, As GT indicates several parts were a phosphate..The toggle mainspring hook for instance. The hardness may have prevented any other finish?

Green57 · 06-29-2013, 07:07 AM

Jerry,

From recutting some of the numbers on the different parts of my pistol I can say that so far I have experienced three different hardnesses of steel. The frame is the softest and cuts very easy. The breech and first link of the toggle seem to be of the same hardness and harder than the frame. By far the hardest is the rear toggle and it has been the most difficult to cut.

As far as I know the hardness of the steel has nothing to do with its ability to take a finish, only its composition. As long as it is a ferrous steel it should take a blue or phosphate finish. The color of the final finish might vary from hardness to hardness.

Stainless alloys are of course, a different story.

G57

06-28-2013, 06:19 PM	#1
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06-29-2013, 07:07 AM	#2
Green57 User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 32 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Jerry, From recutting some of the numbers on the different parts of my pistol I can say that so far I have experienced three different hardnesses of steel. The frame is the softest and cuts very easy. The breech and first link of the toggle seem to be of the same hardness and harder than the frame. By far the hardest is the rear toggle and it has been the most difficult to cut. As far as I know the hardness of the steel has nothing to do with its ability to take a finish, only its composition. As long as it is a ferrous steel it should take a blue or phosphate finish. The color of the final finish might vary from hardness to hardness. Stainless alloys are of course, a different story. G57