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Hi all, on my restoration journey, I'm deciding what to do with the triggers. I'm cleaning them up...however I think they will have been blacked when new. I've read that heating and dumping in oil works but better is dipping in oil then dumping in a hot BBQ for 1hr!

Anyone done this? Alternatively, does blueing triggers look pants or good? Open to offers.

Alternatively, I get them blacked properly by the smith

T

There is stuff used in machine shops for blackening ferrous metals - it's a form of patination. I think MSC (they supply machine tool stuff) may have it.

By the way, I never heard the expression "look pants"

What's it mean?

...triggers are pretty "high wear" items, so I wouldn't recommend a simple temper blue on them.....your best bet would be to rust blue them....6 to 8 rustings with Laurel Mountain Forge barrel brown, with boiling and carding in between rust sessions will give you a durable black.....

Pants = crap @:)

Might try some of this stuff?

http://www.caswelleurope.co.uk/coldox.htm

T

Try a large plating shop, ask about black oxide finish. Many mfgrs. want a durable finish not too expensive and opt for black oxide. Basicly it's blacking with no finishing done. Parts come from machining operations go to plater and have the finish put on.