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Old 02-23-2011, 09:41 AM
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I was minding my own business using some Flitz at a gun show on a couple of Nickle wheelguns. When a good friend suggested I try Simichrome polish.

I found some at the local Harley dealer (barely got out of there with the extra space in my garage intact) and have tried it on both nickle and a stainless guns. I am please with the results.

Question is, has anybody used this on a blued gun, and how are the results?

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Old 02-23-2011, 12:15 PM
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I'm not sure I would. It's pretty abrasive compared to Flitz.
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Old 02-23-2011, 01:52 PM
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Years ago, we used to polish out our blued revolvers with Simi Chrome. Puts a finish on the gun that resembles mirrored sunglasses. Prettier than all getout but it does show fingerprints badly so you have to keep it wiped down to keep it spiffy. Never had any problems with bluing loss, but we usually only did it a few times. The finish seems to last a long time.
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ALL metal polishes are abrasive. Some like Flitz are very fine, some are more coarse.
Semi-chrome is a little more coarse.

When you use a metal polish, it abrades away a micro-thin layer of bluing or nickel.
How fast it will do so depends on how hard you rub and/or on how often you use it.
Using Flitz, you can polish through to bare steel in one application if you rub a little to hard.

So, taking into account that each time you use a metal polish you're wearing the finish off, use your best judgment.
One polish job can do years worth of damage to a finish.
Metal polishes are just a finer version of using a sheet of sand paper to give it a good scrubbing.

If you want to clean the finish, apply CLP Breakfree and let soak for a few days. It'll dissolve any dirt and will lift oxidized bluing.
To protect and shine, apply a good wax like Renaissance or Johnson's.
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I prefer Simichrome over Flitz. I have actually used both, and I have found that a light wiping of light oil after polishing helps after using these products. I have not noticed any loss of bluing after Simichrome, although there has to be some loss, it's just not apparent. I read about the use of wax products after polishing, but I have not tried them.
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There are a lot of opinions on this subject so I will withhold mine for for now. We have all invested some amount of money on guns and we all want to protect this investment. Some scientific investigation and practical test are in order, for my money, at least. I'm all for learning, and this forum is a great place to do that.
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I only use a soft rag with the used simichrome polish on my blued guns only after its used on a stainless/nickel finish to clean them up. I never use the new simichrome polish on my blued guns. By using the used simichrome polish it takes some of the bite out of the polish. We don't want to cut into the blued finish too much now do we. Its good enough to still take the dull bluing and restore it to an awesome new looking blue again. I also use it very lightly on my military rifles too. They have that colt python bluing look on some of them when i'm done. But again i use only the used simichrome polish and go very lightly on any blued gun. Becareful, Bill
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Old 02-28-2011, 09:45 AM
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Thanks for the advise, I have used it on a few nickle N frames with great results.

I will try "used" semichrome on a blue gun.

I have been back to the Harley dealer...
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I must echo dfariswheel very strongly. ANY polish is abrasive!! The finest I've found is called MAAS Metal Polish. Their motto is "Finely a polish that lasts". That's true and I've tested it but won't go into it here. But even it is abrasive. It may be on the order of jeweler's rouge but even that is abrasive. Bluing may be the prettiest finish on a gun but it also may be the most delicate. The best thing you can do for bluing is to keep it cleaned with something like CLP or another modern "oil". There are lots of good ones out there now although CLP was the first, I think. Nothing takes the place of regular care.

Keep 'em in the black!

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