Reciever / Barrel conditioning

[DeadWoodDan]

I picked up a beater Marlin 336, and think it can be brought back to life. Going to re-finish the wood , "the Rodger Method" that was kindly made into a sticky. Need to replace some screws that bubba damaged and a few other minor items.

The receiver has some what I would call light spotting. Not really pits but the beginning of them from lack of oil. I was curious what I can do to attempt and remove them to make metal like new and not remove what bluing remains? Wasn't sure if steel wool or scotch pad would damage the metal. I have even thought about doing a duracoat job on this, but think the rifle is still to nice for that.

thanks for the guidance
DWD

[M-Tecs]

0000 steel wool and oil will not hurt the bluing.

[DeadWoodDan]

Thank you will try this first and see if she shines..

[pietro]

0000 steel wool and oil will not hurt the bluing.


I once tried that, but the method led me down the garden path...........................:shock:

Having learned the hard way, I now use Big 45 Frontier cleaner: http://www.frontiermetalcleaner.com/ . :drinks:



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[DeadWoodDan]

!! hey I acutally think i have that new in bag. I purchased some time ago with some other 45-70 products for my TD...will check it out

[largom]

I have alway's used oooo steel wool with no problems.

Larry

[RickinTN]

Bronze wool would be less likely to scratch the bluing. Steel wool will scratch it although it may be small scratches.
Rick

[Hooker53]

It's hard to find but I use only 00000 steel wool and gun oil.

[M-Tecs]

It's hard to find but I use only 00000 steel wool and gun oil.

Think you typed one to many 0's. The finest grade produced is 0000

http://steelwooldirect.com/grades-and-applications/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_wool

http://www.briwaxwoodcare.com/stelwool.htm

[DeadWoodDan]

picked up 0000steel wool today, well try it first

[MtGun44]

4 ought steel wool and G96 seems to do better than most oils. Not sure
what different is in G96, but it seems to remove more of these minor surface
rust issues than other gun products.

Bill