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djh860
Can a pock mark from rust in a gun barrel be repaired and reblued?
I'm looking at a project gun. Sorry no picture.
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  • charliemeyer007
    Adding metal back is welding most of the time. There can be serious issues with the heat treatment/strength of the barrel from the heat. Hot salt blueing will produce different colors on different metals. Identical or nearly so chemical composition would help hide the repair.

    I have done bad screw holes by peening in a screw. Buffed out and reblued it can be hard to see, but a pro with a hand lens will detect it.
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  • rsnyder55
    This may be a shot in the dark, but could you fill it with silver solder which has a low temperature melting point? But then I don't think it would take bluing.
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  • perry shooter
    People Like Doug Turnbull can make the gun look like new But his work is costly as far as you replacing metal that has been eaten away by rust this is NOT a DIY project
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  • beantownshootah
    quote:Originally posted by djh860
    Can a pock mark from rust in a gun barrel be repaired and reblued?
    I'm looking at a project gun. Sorry no picture.

    Presumably you mean on the outside of the barrel.

    "Can" it be done? Sure. The better question, really, is can be done in a cost-effective way that makes sense for your project and your budget.

    EG: The hole can be spot welded over, sanded down flush, polished then the whole barrel reblued. Done right, the repair would be effectively undetectable, except (maybe) by a very skilled observer looking for a professional restoration. But this is not a home job (at least not for 99.9%+ of home projecteers) and its not going to come cheap.

    On the other extreme, you could just clean out the rust, then use some touch-up cold blue (or some such product) to cover the spot. Obviously, this doesn't "fix" the metal loss, and anyone looking closely will still see the defect, but you'll still get maybe 85% of the way "there" cosmetically at maybe 5-10% of the time and cost.

    For a cheapie/beater, I'd go this route.

    And before you do anything to this gun, note that if you're looking at a gun with any collector value, you're probably better off just leaving the hole alone. Any kind of refinish/reworking will reduce collector's value, and should be avoided, if you want to retain it.
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  • 45er
    If of low dollar/collector value beater gun, then "Project gun" to me means experimenting.

    With that in mind, wonder if good old JB-Weld would suffice. It will hold up, but no idea of bluing over it? Perhaps the Blue in a bottle stuff?. Have used it for numerous bonding/filling jobs with great success. Just a thought.

    45er
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  • Dokey
    Here's a trick I use sometimes, take 5 min epoxy and add a tiny bit of black dye (I use the dye that comes in the accra glas bedding kits) It's trial and error mixing because the dye is so concentrated, too much dye and it will come out darker than the bluing, so practice on an index card
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