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Originally Posted by ol777gunnerz
To make it look it's best, use Flitz Polish, it will blend the Nickel areas better with the bare areas. Cleaning with 0000 steel wool & oil is for blued guns. Yes, I have done both to guns that increased their value for when they were sold. Do not use Flitz on anything blued, it will remove bluing.
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I don't know if he really meant to say "steel wool" or not, but don't go anywhere near a blued gun with steel wool!!!!
As has been said before, steel wool removes rust---along with pretty much anything else. Bluing is RUST!
The blue rust is called black oxide, but rust is rust! Blueing is blue instead of red because of the oxidizing chemicals used in the process. The bluing process is known as "controlled corrosion"-----note that word---corrosion.
Using oil along with the steel wool simply slows down the process of removing rust, but rust is still rust!!
Bronze Wool and oil is the name of the game. The oil reduces the effort, and carries off the crud.
End of rant!
Ralph Tremaine