Picked up anWinchester 94. Need some input on restoration.
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Picked up anWinchester 94. Need some input on restoration.
I picked up an old Winchester 94 30/30, a 1978 model. I am wanting some info on what to use to strip the old blueing off from the reciever. The stuff that is on there is more of a laquer than a blueing and you can see a couple of streaks in it from the previous owner using a solvent to clean it up. Or is there a type of blueing that I can use to touch up the existing? The Beachwood Casey stuff that I tried works on the barrel, but not on the reciever, they are two totally different types of blueing.
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Picked up anWinchester 94. Need some input on restoration.
Tuk I do not know how to explain this, but from what I understand the receiver can not be re-blued. I am sure someone else can explain it better thanI, but what is on the rifle is not bluing. Check over on the Leverguns forum. Those guy's can explain it better. Tom.
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RE: Picked up anWinchester 94. Need some input on restoration.
That makes sense. I know that when I tried the regular blueing on it, it just wiped off and didnt do anything. Oh well, I dont mind the worn look of the gun anyways, that is why I picked it over newer/nicer ones.
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RE: Picked up anWinchester 94. Need some input on restoration.
As the guys above mentioned, durring those years Winchester used a cheap alloy that cannot be blued by conventional means. All is not lost however, you could do something like Duracoat which would look nice, and be very durable to boot.
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RE: Picked up anWinchester 94. Need some input on restoration.
well i dont know what it looks like underneath that but on mine, there was a cheap blueing on it and i used this stuff for takin dirt and wax off the bottom of skiis/snowboards, called swix base cleaner, its like a mixture of orange oil and wd-40, and it worked good and nothing bad has happened to it since i did it a year ago so i think its safe...