Stainless Steel Cleaning and Polishing.

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Whatever, 11 years of #0000 steel wool and there is no rust on the musket or Encore barrels.
I put a little Hoppe's gun oil on the barrel, rub it down, wipe the crud off with a rag, put a thin film of oil on it and it's good to go. And I live in mostly 90% humidity world of Gulf Coast Texas. That's 11 YEARS!!! I would think if above posts were going to happen, it would have done so by now??

Whatever works, don't change it!!
Good info on these posts though!


Just for grins, a buddy has a POS...I mean Ruger stainless rifle and one evening got out his dremel tool and a brass wire wheel to "shine up the old barrel" a little.
Talk about transferring metal!!! He had a spot of the weirdest kinda brass/gold color on that barrel and he couldn't get rid of it!!!
We spent about a hour with #0000 steel wool just a rubbing the heck out of that spot. Well, that turned the spot a funky gray color!!
In the end he took it to a friend who worked in a musical instrument repair shop and he put it on a buffing wheel and buffed it out nice.
To this day that POS...I mean Ruger will rust like crazy on that spot!!!
 
Mete,

Right you are. Nitric for passivating stainless screws. I've had it done. I was thinking of chromic acid because of its use in electropolishing which also leaves a passivated surface.

As a trippy guy in my college dorm thirty-something years ago used to say: "So little time, so many chemicals."

Nick
 
Stainless does scratch. It's what stainless guns are like. "Nature of the beast" and stuff. It can be "fixed". I don't bother. I worry about function, not form, and the scratches have nothing to do with how it functions. I know that my stainless guns can be polished, if I ever wanted to, that's good enough for me, and I leave it at that.
 
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