new to me Luger-it needs help!!

[sovblocgunfan]

Update:

Based on a trial run with the dechrome process (using an old car part I had lying around) I have decided to take all parts to the chrome platers and have them strip the parts to bare metal. My results were less than satisfactory, and created a significant mess to clean up on the part. The car part still retained chrome and I had too much difficulty with the electricity-too much current, hard to control correctly, etc. It also took way to long to get the poor results that it yielded. I tried it, didn't care for it, but am willing to try it again if another opportunity presents itself.

So, I am going to take a little time to get the replacement springs on order and pick out which bluing I want to use-I am just about convinced that bluing is the way to go on this gun, but am still worried about corrosion under the chrome. Perhaps I can live with it if it's not too deep by putting an emery cloth or emery paper on it to smooth it out if needed.

[sovblocgunfan]

I can't seem to get good photos of what the inside of this pistol is supposed to look like. Everything I can find has nice, pretty photos of the exterior of the pistol-very little shows individual or semi-hidden parts and I can't get a good fix on how this thing is really supposed to look. I know I can't make it perfect, but I want it respectable, so I want it reasonably close to original-looking. I have questions:

I can see from several photos what parts are supposed to be strawed. Not a problem.

Is the entire frame (inside the barrel channel and out) supposed to be blued? Or am I looking at bluing the outside and leaving the inside in the white?

Recoil spring linkage-blue or in-white?

Toggle Section-all blue, including recoil link? All blue inside and out?

Upper frame-blue on inside, or in-white?

Thanks!

Justin

[Ice]

Originally Posted by sovblocgunfan

Is the entire frame (inside the barrel channel and out) supposed to be blued? Or am I looking at bluing the outside and leaving the inside in the white?


I disassembled my 1917 Erfurt. The entire frame inside the barrel channel and inside the magazine well is in the white.

Recoil spring linkage-blue or in-white?

In the white.

Toggle Section-all blue, including recoil link? All blue inside and out?

All blue inside and out except inside the firing pin channel. The recoil link is in the white.

Upper frame-blue on inside, or in-white?

Upper frame in white on inside; bottom of frame rails in white. The recoil lug and the front of frame is blued


A hot salts blued Mauser would be blued inside and out.

Hope this helps.

Charlie

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[sheepherder]

This member seems to have dropped off the face of the earth...(abducted by aliens perhaps???)...Albums all restricted; no contact info whatsoever...In fact, the only info left in his profile is his first name...

Anyone know what happened to sovblocgunfan??? Was he successful in restoring his Luger??? His album pics show up in the Random Pics occasionally, but the albums are still restricted...