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I have a model 50 snubby...serial # 932j26....I would like to get restored...bought from a police auction a number of years ago and it had lots of rust specs...put in kroll to soak and had a stroke and forgot it...this has been 2 years ago....took it out of kroll this morning and is kinda gummed up...is this something smith might do?
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06-28-2018, 03:10 PM
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You have a valuable gun, send it home and let the factory do it.
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06-28-2018, 03:16 PM
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Hit it with brake cleaner, should come clean. Then oil it.
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Welcome! Photos after all the Kroil is removed would help for an opinion, it may not need any refinishing work at all after the long soaking.
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Originally Posted by tonyxit
I have a model 50 snubby...serial # 932j26....I would like to get restored...bought from a police auction a number of years ago and it had lots of rust specs...put in kroll to soak and had a stroke and forgot it...this has been 2 years ago....took it out of kroll this morning and is kinda gummed up...is this something smith might do?
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Two years in Kroil 
The Chief's Special Target is a much loved J-frame on this forum. Yours is only a few hundred away from mine
Hopefully yours will clean up nicely.
Then you can send it off for a nice blue job. Fords in Florida has done some wonderful blue and nickel for me over the years.
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06-28-2018, 04:29 PM
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Thank you all for great input...I sent email to Smith asking them if this is something they would do....this is a case of it is better to be lucky than smart...I was unaware when I bought it...it was a snubby and cheap...so I bought...it was not a beater by any means...just some rust from misuse... will let yall know what Smith says...thanks much
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Welcome aboard from Wyoming.
Congrats on getting that piece of history for "cheap."
If it were mine the last thing in the world I would do is have it redone. I'm not a purist, however I wouldn't alter the history of that one. It shows the life it's lived. I'd clean it up and let it be.
My two bits.
ps: I likely shipped from the factory somewhere between '72 and '75.
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I am taking the advice to try brake cleaner to get the goop off...I probably lean towards keeping it original...will post pictures when I get it presentable ...I understand it means more being original even with a few flaws..working one handed...so may take me awhile  ...
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06-29-2018, 01:43 AM
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I had a NIB Python that had been sprayed and put away with WD40 every year for 32 years. It was encased in dried up WD40. Looked like a candied apple. I asked on a shotgun forum what would remove the WD40, and the answer was WD 40. And it worked. You might want to try Kroil on your model 50.
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