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04-22-2003, 09:28 PM | #1 |
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When blood is a solvent...
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The effects of a long term blood soaked pistol that was stored & forgotten... Captured in a fierce battle, it was put away full of blood...When taken out of storage, it was wiped clean...so clean that even the bluing was gone <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> Sad! for an otherwise nice P block BYF 41 kidvett |
04-22-2003, 10:21 PM | #2 |
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Very interesting.
So no "blood pitting", but the taking of blue is very true! My apoligies to any I doubted!! ED
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04-22-2003, 11:27 PM | #3 |
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Looks like someone tried some bead blasting on this gun. The little pits on the bluing look like it.
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Looks like something strong such as muriatic acid got on it in places. We used that to strip old bluing etc off old guns. Works almost instantly, dip and rinse.
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While this is very extensive bluing removal... it is very similar to the marks that used to appear across the top of my byf 41... and there is a blood story to go with it...
check my folder under the 'old owner's corner' link on the left... unfortunately, I took no "before" photos but the story of how the blueing was removed related to my by the vet that brought it back is there in detail.
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