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Blueing Stainless Steel?

GUNMAN4FUNGUNMAN4FUN Member Posts: 76 ✭✭
edited June 2003 in Ask the Experts
Are there any home methods for blueing stainless steel? I know that it can be hot blued, but is there any type of cold blueing or chemical treatment that I can do to stainless steel to give it a blued or parkarized finish without having to invest in large expensive equipment? I would really appreciate any help that you can give me.

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  • warcrobwarcrob Member Posts: 358 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Stainless steel does not need to be blued! Many police officers that carried revolvers before the Auto crase often chose to carry the stainless steel model rather than the blued because they were easier to care for.

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gunman may want to do it anyway. Whether it is necessary or not is not really responsive to the question. Gunman, it is indeed unnecessary, thus I have heard of no one doing it. I would suggest you e-mail a gunsmith here on the board named Der Gebirgsjager via his profile under members. He will very likely be able to tell you if it is doable.

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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good friends--I just don't know of any way to do this at home; but I don't know everything. When I first went into the business and set up my bluing tanks I purchased Dulite bluing salts for bluing, and Brownell's salts for stainless steel. I never had much luck with the Brownell's product other than a dark gray color, and eventually disposed of the stuff. Over the years that I've been in business I've only had 3 or 4 requests for coloring stainless, and therefore didn't miss out on much business. I believe that Brownells may have improved their product, and Dulite makes salts for stainless that they guarantee to work, but it was just never worth it for me to pursue the matter. You could set up your own bluing system at home, but once you buy all the equipment you might as well go into business. There are some alternative finishes for stainless which are relatively easy to do at home, and these would include baking lacquer paint and teflon coatings. The materials necessary for these processes are available from Brownells. Basically you will need to degrease the metal, spray on the substance of choice, and cure it in the kitchen oven sometime when your wife is out of town for the day.[;)]
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  • 101AIRBORNE101AIRBORNE Member Posts: 1,252 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Come on: Der Gebirgsjager-
    You do know everything!
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  • kingjoeykingjoey Member Posts: 8,636
    edited November -1
    Actually, Robar has a process for blacking/blueing stainless steel, they use it for SpecOps stuff. Bluing is generally a oxidation process not much different than rusting so stainless is usually very resistant to such stuff. The Robar technique involves a reaction to leave a chromium sulfate finish if I remember correctly.

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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Awww...Come on now, 101, [:I]........thanks for the kind words.
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  • GUNMAN4FUNGUNMAN4FUN Member Posts: 76 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The reason that I want to blue stainless steel is because I have a stainless barrel in one of my Glocks that I carry on duty as a Police Officer. I know that Sig blues many of their stainless steel slides and many hunters have there stainless rifles blued so that they won't be as obvious in the woods. I just thought maybe I could get some info on any home methods that I didn't know about. Thanks
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