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Aging steel and cast-iron?

Hi Folks, Not sure if this is the right place to post, but here goes.

I need to age steel and cast iron. Basically, what I have is an old rifle that I had to put new parts on, the receiver (cast) and bolt carrier (steel). I have 'blued' the bolt carrier, but it looks much to nice (lol) and the finish is very uniform, which I am not looking for.

As for the receiver, which is cast, I grinded the inside slightly and blued it, but all I end up with is rust. Not a good thing.

What I would like, is to have aged looking new parts to look old, so it matches the rest of the rifle. Right now the blueing on the rest of the rifle is somewhat dull and the stock, made of wood, is dirty and banged up a bit. So, I'd like to get things to start matching. :)

Many thanks for any help! Chris

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Coconut
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Toss it in the back of a pickup with some tools, gravel, etc and drive round on dirt roads for a day or so. That seems to work fine every time I do it....

PDW

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Peter Wiley

I think the best new way is to power coat. Very common now adays.Craig

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craigmcsympaticoca

I think the best way is powder coat ,to achieve your finish. craig

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craigmcsympaticoca

I doubt very seriously that the receiver is cast, most likely its forged if not machined.. (Casting, by that I mean injection molding receivers are a relative new method of making receivers). With that said, how about telling me what model rifle it is. I have a number of old bluing formulas, and it may even have the original one used when it was made. If not I may have something that will be appropriate.

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Diamond Jim

Hi Jim and thanks for your reply! The rifle is an early 1950's Yugo SKS 59/66. Thanks for any help! Chris

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Coconut

Thats a milled steel receiver and IRRC..its the soviet version of 4140 or 4340 material The Yugos were heat treated pretty hard. Probably 47-50 RC All to the best of my knowledge..were blued with no color case anywhere

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Yugoslavia SKS M59/66A1 manufactured by the Zastava Ordnance /Red Banner Works from 1967 to 1970. The M59 is practically a carbon copy of the Russian SKS and, , was made at Red Banner from 1960-67. The 59/66 series was manufactured at Red Banner from 1967-70. Many M59s were converted to the 59/66 configuration during that time. Most of the 59s and 59/66s had beechwood stocks. Some Yugoslav 59s and 59/66s with teakwood stocks were made for export to Africa.

The main difference between other SKS rifles and the Yugoslav versions is that the bores of the Yugo versions were not chrome plated--Yugoslavia has no significant native chromium ore deposits, chromium was expensive to purchase and Yugoslavia's relationship with the USSR (a major chromium ore exporter) since 1948 was lukewarm at best. One reason Yugo SKS rifles (in fact all Yugoslav small arms seem "beefier") is because Yugoslav cartridges are much "hotter" loads than other similar "East Bloc" ammo, plus since Yugoslavia's manufacturing capacity was relatively limited, each weapon had to be more durable.

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