I think I will try both the carbide lamp and the spray-on. The shine just drives me nuts. I find myself blaming bad shots on it even if I know that I was the problem, I hate that
The Permablue works great! I reblued a good portion of a 1911 mag, it looks great.
Do any companies make a high quality front sight for a MKII bull barrel that would work with the VQ TL rear sight? The Ruger one was already pretty glossy even before the Permablue
Fixing front sight bluing wear?
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toyfj40 wrote:I wanna watch 'Greener' try this...Bud33 wrote:A couple of kernels of carbide, a drop of water, and it made the ideal smoker.
from a distance WITH my binoculars!!
Me too, but from the distace wheere you need a 50X spotting scope, better yet from a greater distance yet using a remote disposable TV camer. Hang in there Rob.
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Got to thinking how you can see the strings of soot in the air off the real orange flame when you first light a welding torch and then the brain woke up and said Hey oldman water and carbide make acetylene, dummy. Proves one thing,may be a little slow but I still got at least some of it, maybe not all, but some..Bullseye wrote:Carbide is a little more sooty when it burns. This leaves a nice lamp black coating on the sight blade.
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When you light a welding or cutting torch and the oxygen is turned way down you can just see the wisps of soot in the air drifting in the breeze.Bullseye wrote:To make the carbide lamp work, you add a few drops of water to the chips and quickly screw on the lid as the rocks fizzle to generate the gas. One quick spark from the lighter flint and 'poof' a nice yellow fame producing a deep, flat, black coating.
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