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Rooster:
Does anyone know how to stop a gun from rusting? I have a shot gun that I had to de-blue because it was at the evidence place in a jail for about a year. When I got it back there was a couple big rust marks probably from finger prints left uncleaned. When I got it back I deblued it and reblued it but I put the gun oil on afterwards and I didnt know I was supposed to wait. Anyways I had deblued it again a week or so later and reblued it, and waited to oil it, and the same thing happend. So I did it again and did not oil it at all, and its already starting to rust up again. The rust covers pretty much the entire barrel and its a really light colored non flakey rust. Its just orangeish I guess is how I would put it. THe barrel when stripped is all silver with a couple tiny spots, but I dont see how the whole things starts to orange like that. Does anyone know how to fix that?

addicted:

--- Quote from: Rooster on August 31, 2008, 10:14:52 AM ---I have a shot gun that I had to de-blue because it was at the evidence place in a jail

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that sounds like a good thing to say to scare the daughter's boyfriend. "i just got this shotgun back from the evidence locker"

robodad:
I would say to take it to a gunsmith for the rebluing, they use a different method then the cold blue OTC kind and is much more durable in my opinion. I think the home kits for rebluing work well for screws or small parts but when you need to do a barrel or reciever I would leave it up to the pro's !!  :twocents:

Bscman:
Heat is the key to cold bluing...Use a HOT water dunk, or a heat gun.

I always let the blue "cure" with a THICK coat of oil...it always rusts QUICKLY if I don't.

As mentioned, most of the OTC types don't work very well and you will be MUCH better off with a hot-blue. Even when you get the desired effect with a cold-blue, it's not nearly as durable and will almost always brown/orange in little time.

DOUBLELUNG:
Put it in a gun safe and leave the light bulb on.   

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