[modeleng] Re: Filing, now O/T--Daggers & stuff
- From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:13:22 -0500
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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