Has anyone used Rose Mill's Cherry Red case hardening compound to restore case coloring on hammers and triggers? If so, what was your results?
Cherry Red
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You'll get hardening w/it but no colors other than a matted gray.
If anything resembling the case colors of the charcoal process appears, it's purely by coincidence.
Cherry Red uses a chromium compound in it to get the surface hardening.
Chromium Oxide III (I think) plus potassium nitrate is pretty much it's make up.
It's taken the place of Kasenite for the most part.
Kasenite has(had) an evil sounding compound called potassium ferrocyanide as it's major component.
So as far as I can find out,,it's pretty much been pulled from the market.
But if you look at that compound itself, it's used in many things including the food industry.
Yellow prussate(sp?) of soda is what the common name of it used to be. used to be an off the shelf drug store remedy compound for many uses.
Kasenite wouldn't get you much in the color dept either,,but I don't care for the chrome plate under heat method of surface hardening that the Cherry Red compound uses.
Just when I get comfortable using something for 40 years or so,,it's gone.
If anything resembling the case colors of the charcoal process appears, it's purely by coincidence.
Cherry Red uses a chromium compound in it to get the surface hardening.
Chromium Oxide III (I think) plus potassium nitrate is pretty much it's make up.
It's taken the place of Kasenite for the most part.
Kasenite has(had) an evil sounding compound called potassium ferrocyanide as it's major component.
So as far as I can find out,,it's pretty much been pulled from the market.
But if you look at that compound itself, it's used in many things including the food industry.
Yellow prussate(sp?) of soda is what the common name of it used to be. used to be an off the shelf drug store remedy compound for many uses.
Kasenite wouldn't get you much in the color dept either,,but I don't care for the chrome plate under heat method of surface hardening that the Cherry Red compound uses.
Just when I get comfortable using something for 40 years or so,,it's gone.
OP
Thanks, 2152hq! That's what I thought but it was good to get confirmation.
