Mother's mag polish OK for blued revolvers?

[ahanes]

Wanted to polish my blued Model 19 a little, so I broke out the Mother's and a rag. As I polished, I noticed the rag turned brown and the gun doesn't look quite so good. Is there anything in Mother's mag polish that screws up blued revolvers?

 

[ahanes]

Wanted to polish my blued Model 19 a little, so I broke out the Mother's and a rag. As I polished, I noticed the rag turned brown and the gun doesn't look quite so good. Is there anything in Mother's mag polish that screws up blued revolvers?

 

[john traveler]

Mother's Mag polish is abrasive. That's why it works so good on aluminum and stainless steel.

Continued rubbing with thin and then REMOVE your blued surface! I also contains chemical cleaners that are not good for bluing.

 

[pogo2]

I've used this polish on the front of a stainless cylinder to remove the burned carbon. It is slightly abrasive, like any polish, so I wouldn't use it on a blued gun for fear of removing the blueing.

 

[Bullseye Smith]

I have used it without any problems, it will remove the grim on one. Here is a pic of one with Mothers on it.

It is my 10/32 - a 32 long built on a model ten frame. the 10 was a old NYPD gun with alot of blue off it. Looks good to me

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[hitecrednek]

car wax-yes
mothers-NO!

 

[Gunhacker]

Originally posted by ahanes:
As I polished, I noticed the rag turned brown and the gun doesn't look quite so good.

Bluing is basically a controlled rusting process, that brown on the rag is the bluing being taken off. I would not be all that surprised if Mother's didn't have some ammonia (also not good) to disolve oxide so the polishing compound can get at clean metal.

Wax (Renaissance Wax, Johnson's Paste Wax, Collinite #845 Insulator Wax) is what many of us use for sprucing up preserving blued guns.. it works great.

 

[whitecoyote]

Try Flitz
http://www.flitz-polish.com/?l...-SjpoCFRAhDQodIH5oFQ

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by whitecoyote:
Try Flitz...

But, if you do use it, be very carefully because it will do what it is designed to do and can very easily take the bluing right off your gun. Simply clean up your gun with any good solvent type cleaner and soft rags - old T-Shirt material works very well - then get all the oils and greases off of it with some thing like Carburetor Cleaner. Then use the "Renaissance Wax" or most any other high quality paste wax but use it 'sparingly' because, at least, a little of the "Renaissance Wax" goes a long way.

 

[photoman]

Renaissance has a cleaner product that you can use before the wax. I would try that.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

I use Mothers on my pickup's mag wheels an see what it does. I would be very careful befoe using it on blue steel

 

[Steel609]

I tried Flitz on a blued 1911 I have. It took the blue right off, although the it was shiny.

I love it for my Stainless guns.

Mothers is much more abrasive, so from my experience I would highly suggest you do NOT use Mothers on blueing.