NorthernDave
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Recently, I rediscovered a pistol my grandfather left me when he passed. I was still in highschool then, my folks put it in storage, and, well... It basically was forgotten for almost twenty years.
Twenty years in a box in storage wasn't kind to it.
It's a piece of junk, as a gun. I should just toss it in my smelting furnace and melt it into slag. It's a little Rohm 22... Even years ago, it didn't fire more than half the time. But it was grandpa's, and I don't have much to remember him by.
It's covered in what almost looks like mold; I'm guessing something in the pot metal the cast the frame from oxidized, because none of the steel parts were effected.
None of the gun cleaners I've got on hand have done much to clean it up. They took the bits of rust and gunk off fine, but not this crud.
What am I looking at, sanding it down to bare metal and slopping on some liquid bluing stuff, or is there a solvent that might do better?
I know it'll never look great again, I'm not planning to do anything more than toss it in the safe, I just want to do the best I can without breaking the bank in a garbage gun.
Link to a picture of what I'm dealing with.
Twenty years in a box in storage wasn't kind to it.
It's a piece of junk, as a gun. I should just toss it in my smelting furnace and melt it into slag. It's a little Rohm 22... Even years ago, it didn't fire more than half the time. But it was grandpa's, and I don't have much to remember him by.
It's covered in what almost looks like mold; I'm guessing something in the pot metal the cast the frame from oxidized, because none of the steel parts were effected.
None of the gun cleaners I've got on hand have done much to clean it up. They took the bits of rust and gunk off fine, but not this crud.
What am I looking at, sanding it down to bare metal and slopping on some liquid bluing stuff, or is there a solvent that might do better?
I know it'll never look great again, I'm not planning to do anything more than toss it in the safe, I just want to do the best I can without breaking the bank in a garbage gun.
Link to a picture of what I'm dealing with.