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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:00:44 GMT
By Ulmus
Jan 09, 2012#1
I have a dangerous though going through my head.
I'm thinking of diasassembling my Rough Rider and sandblasting the frame (walnut shell blasting to protect the alloy from warping) and doing a heat treat with a butane tourch to get a case hardened look like people have done to the recievers of their Henry Rifles.
What do you think? Go for it or let it be.
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:01:07 GMT
By Lost Californian
Jan 10, 2012#2
I say go for it!
My refinishing project is stalled out right now...waiting on a friend to make me some parts to replace the plastic bits, and I had to go and buy a Sig P226 in 22.lr with a Caliber Xchange kit in .357Sig, which put a large dent in the working capital.
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:01:53 GMT
By whichfinger
Jan 10, 2012#3
Ulmus wrote:
I have a dangerous though going through my head.
I'm thinking of diasassembling my Rough Rider and sandblasting the frame (walnut shell blasting to protect the alloy from warping) and doing a heat treat with a butane tourch to get a case hardened look like people have done to the recievers of their Henry Rifles.
What do you think? Go for it or let it be.
Dangerous thought indeed. The "case hardened" look on the Henrys is done chemically, not by setting them on fire. :eek: True case hardening is done on steel receivers; the result on aluminum-zinc alloy may not, and probably won't, look the same. I'd also be concerened about what effect the localized heat would do to the integrity of the alloy. OTOH, if your HRR has a steel frame, nevermind.
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:03:05 GMT
By dangerranger Jan 10, 2012#4 If you have an alloy frame it wont come out looking like case colors. Ill look and see what I have that will chemicaly simulate them. Im thinking it was a silver polish called "Dip It". DR Heres a thread where someone case colored their henry. it should work the same. the clear coat over needs to be something that can take gun cleaning fluids. probably something made for model airplane fuel. www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/sh ... Case+Color You might also like the two tone look with the frame polished and the barrel and sights blued. DR |
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:03:38 GMT
By Lost Californian
Jan 11, 2012#5
Huh. Now ain't that just something. Magical makes it sound so easy. Came out looking very good, too.
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:05:18 GMT
By Ulmus
Jan 12, 2012#6
Wow. I like that way much better. Thanks for the link! After reading the above posts, I was gonna drop the idea (especially when I found out that the sand booth-box had only glove remnants instead of gloves.) but now I am curious again.
There's also a hobby shop that specializes in remote control flying model airplanes and I just bet that they have the clear cote paint I would need for the final step.
Hmmm. again.
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:05:47 GMT
By mogunner
Jan 14, 2012#7
Sandblasting gloves are around $7 at Harbor Freight, that's what I used when I built my bead blast cabinet... lol.
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Post by whichfinger on Jan 31, 2020 23:06:09 GMT
By Ape
Jan 15, 2012#8
GREAT!.....Another project for me to put on my list! lol
If anyone else try's magicals color case hardening technique, let us know and post your results.
If not I'm sure I'll be trying it at some point with one of my guns. :wink1:
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