Anyone have any experience with Flitz on blued guns to remove slight handling or storage marks? Will it remove much or any of the blue if used overly aggresively? Thanks,Charlie

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Charlie

Flitz will work but be careful as you don't want to remove any bluing. For light surface marks like oxidation I would recommend using 0000 steel wool soaked in oil. Flitz works best on stainless guns, just remember whatever you try, go lightly.

If used overly aggressively Fritz will most assuredly thin and/or remove the bluing of a firearm. That will most certainly be more of a problem than any slight handling/storage marks. So if you do use the Fritz, go slow. Remember you cannot put back what you take off. So go slow. Stop before you get everything off and let it sit for a while. If you need to, you can do more later. But go slow.

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yes, flitz is an abrasive and can and will remove the blued firearms finish if done too much or prolonged.......

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dan
NRA Benefactor,PMA

Any polish is abrasive, Flitz included. I have used Flitz on all of my blued guns, but I use caution and do not press hard. Once it has been polished, I use wax to protect the finish. So far no problems with the finish on the ones that were polished.

flitz is an abrasive polish. i would not recommend it for blued finish gun cleaning.

Amen to that! Unless RenWax wouldn't work, I wouldn't consider anything else. Then only Hoppe's and a toothbrush.
DLB

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Be Kind! John 3:16,14:27

I've cleaned guns with light rust speckling with Flitz and most revolvers when I first buy them have a cleaning with Flitz. I would not use them on Colt's from the 1915 era! It really lightened the finish! And I really got after a Winchester 61 that had a lot of speckling, one area definitely lost some blueing. But that was because I got carried away.
What do they say-your mileage may vary!!
Ed

Only if you want to remove the bluing.

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Gunsmithing since 1961

Only RenWax on my blue's, Flitz and RenWax on Stainless and Nickel. Both great stuff.

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Thanks everyone for the input,for myself,I think I'll stay away from FLITZ
Charlie

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Charlie

I agree with the others advice but can share a positive experience with Flitz. I recently bought an 80's era blued S&W revolver that came with a set of Pachmayrs. When I removed them there was a small smudge mark to the bluing from the Pachmayrs rubbing on the sideplate that would not come off with oil or solvent. I ~very~ gently & lightly rubbed the spot with a ~tiny~ dab of Flitz on a microfiber cloth. The spot disappeared. Also, on the barrel rib near the front sight the bluing looked slightly cloudy. Again, going very easy with the Flitz the cloudiness disappeared within a few seconds. I was very pleased. But be careful and go slow !

Flitz on a blued gun on a RARE occasion used quite cautiously is OK, but I mean VERY OCCASIONALLY! Flitz, although a mild one is still an abrasive and will eventually thin and remove bluing. Definitely do NOT make this a normal cleaning practice on a blued gun.

Chief38

I've used flitz on a couple lever action rifles. The rusting and frekeling is usually where the hand grasps the receiver. Usually if you get to it in time most of it will go away. But on two occasions nothing would remove the tiny pits. Sort of a used but not abused look. Frank

NO FLITZ ! Go with the #0000 wool and a drop or two of fine gun oil. Save the Flitz for nickel, or better yet, stainless.

JMHO
Larry

Has anyone tried Semichrome? I understand that it is not as aggressive as Flitz.

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Dick

Blue Magic, Mothers Mag Polish, Semichrome all are to some degree abrasive. As I stated earlier, I have never had a problem with Flitz, but I use it carefully and seldom. As for one being LESS abrasive than the other, I do not know the answer to that question.

After polishing my stainless guns using simichrome polish i save the used soft rag to polish my blued guns. The simichrome polish does not have that coarse of a bite when its used on the bluing. I use this on my surplus military guns too the bluing looks awesome.