Video Transcript
Today for those of you that
don’t understand the process of building
hopefully afterwards you’ll
understand how guns are glued this is a
traditional salt bluing this is a custom
Dulite bluing set up
so we’ve got a cleaner that we heat and
then we have two gluing tanks
the reason we have two gluing tanks is
so we can glue more types of steel
including nickel steel
so the first tank will glue
just normal steel for normal guns
and any hard steel or nickel steel when
we put it in the second tank which is
about 30 degrees hotter
so we’re about almost 280 on the first
tank and almost 310 on the second tank we find
that just about every gun moves if you
have stainless then I’ve got a couple
other things with some different
solution that we’ll do stainless and then afterwards we have a
rinse tank and then we’re off to our oil tanks to seal the gun
so I’ll be back with you in a few
minutes when we get everything cleaned
up and up to
temperature and we’ll put a few guns in
we have some nickel steel today so you
can see how it’s red after the first tank but
then blue after the second and
then we got a normal Remington barrel
that we’re doing off the model 12 restoration
that’s another video I’m making and that one will be refined after the
first tank
we’ve got a barrel and
some parts in the cleaning tech they’ve
been in for 15 minutes so
they’re going to go to the rinse and
then into the first blue tank
all right we’ll give that about 20
minutes and then to the second tank
okay into the second tank we go
the key here is to make sure the parts
don’t dry between the tanks
and you get a residue not so nice
all right another 20 minutes okay now
these are the nickel blue nickel barrel
steel but these will take both tanks
these most of these parts would already
blew in this tank we’re just doing that
to make sure everything looks really
nice but you’ll see that these two
barrels are red after the first tank
and will be blue after the second thing
all right okay
now into the ridge tank which is
something that’s 310 degrees going into
moderately warm water so this is when
you have the most danger of being burnt
so obviously we suit up pretty well
see a bit of a moon there
same with these parts
all right then
we’ll rinse them off and into the
which is the salt on them
and then into the oil tank water metal
is still worn
all right now our nickel steel barrels
they look pretty good in the bloom today
but uh they’ll take on a true blue
after the high temp
for 20 minutes all right
now Winchester
hi again I wanted to add a video to the
gun bluing video that shows the red a
little bit more clearly
the one that I did in the previous video
that I said was red actually turned quite black and when I
looked at it after we blued
we realized it was a post 30 model so it
was not a nickel steel which made it
blue fine this one is a 1911
Winchester 94 and you’ll see
you can see how purple it is if you see
it right now compared to the other
barrel right beside
it it’s very purple once you get down
with the second tank
I’ll show you that it’s blue again so
hopefully that clears up the nickel
steel for you
okay I want to give you a quick update
I’m going to insert this into my gun barrel bluing
video to show you the 1894 that we did so you
could see that it actually did turn
nice deep black blue
basically black so if you see a gun
that’s red or pink or any color like
that or plum they call it sometimes
that’s typically because
someone just put it in a one tank system
it has a high nickel content
or it’s hardened steel so if you go
through the two tank you get this
beautiful blue the other option
if you want to do this at home and you
or you only have a single tank system is
you can rust blue these guns
it takes about a week and it’s quite a
process it sounds easy but it’s actually taking me
several years to
I think come up with a good system I’ll
show you here what I mean this is a LC Smith barrel
that I just finished rust blue and it’s got a lot of
oil on it and
the reason we rust blue this is
because it has these little seat poles
where soldered this
thing together so they basically put the
solder in there heat it all up and it
just melted together
if the salts get in there they you can’t
get the salts out
and they will basically make the gun
fall apart in a few years it’ll
basically cause corrosion inside there
so this is what a rust boot looks like
you see it has a little bit of a
brownish tint I call it a silver I
to me it looks a little silvery but it’s
why people call browning it’s a little
bit more brown
but you can get a nice uniform color
browning it too
you could do this as an option for
nickel steel barrels
all right thanks for watching this and
the conclusions coming up next showing
some of the parts that we
did originally
okay I want to do a little conclusion to
our firearm bluing video
just so you could see the end results
you can’t see much when we’re out in the
bluing room
it’s a bit crazy out there so here’s the
barrel and the parts off the Remington
a lot of internal gun parts too I don’t want
to take it apart right now to show you
but you can see all these parts were
blued and everything looks great on this gun
this is the colt 1903 we did
we just cleaned up the magazine and
re-blue that but some of the gun parts that
are external we took to a pretty high
sheen and they came out beautiful they have
that really shiny gloss to them that black blue that
we like to see on guns and the trigger again you
can see hopefully how shiny it is and
the better sheen you take it to the
prettier they look in a sense if that’s
what you’re looking for
and it takes a lot more work to take
apart to a high sheen without
destroying the edges and other parts so
that’s a bit of work
the internal parts we all just sand
blasted and cleaned them up this is a
spring we can do springs
because the temps low enough that it
doesn’t distort the spring or cause any
issues but the internal parts have been sand
blasted cleaned and they all look like they just
came out of the factory
there’ll be no more corrosion problems
on any of these parts for another 100 or
200 years depending on how well you take
care of your guns the internal hammer so here you get to
see a little bit about what the parts
look like afterwards
and we’ll reassemble this colt 1903
and should be good to go thanks for
watching the video hope you enjoyed
learning a little bit about the process
of gun bluing so that you understand if you want to
cold blue or if you want to do it this
way which is definitely
what I would consider a long-term
correct solution for a gun
you can cold blue a lot of people do it
but if you really want it to last and
look more original
then hot bluing is the way to go
thank you
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