[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff

No, Jesse, it is not Stainless Steel.  It is good old
 fashioned high Carbon Solingen Steel.

Al Messer


Al,

Give it a high polish and it will be almost as rust resistant as stainless. 
I acquired an 1855 Colt revolving rifle that had been kept in a smokehouse. 
Salt had rusted deeply into it in places, but the polished mainspring had 
only a tiny dot or two of oxide on it.  Had to use a torch to build up some 
of the more deeply pitted parts of the rifle, even had to make a full fluted 
cylinder and yet, there was that mainspring glittering away.

Jesse in Tennessee USA

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