polishing blued steel

>>34626137
I've had good luck with really fine steel wool and some remoil for general cleaning/polishing, then I just wipe it with an oily rag and it looks good as long as you don't touch it with your grubby little fingers

>>34626137
No. Polishing off bluing is dumb-ass bubba shit. Buy stainless steel parts or have the parts cerakoted in tungsten or something. If you scrub off the bluing there's nothing preventing the parts from rusting.

>>34626287
yea thats why i was thinking too but figured it would ask around first to see if i can save myself $85 for the stainless parts i want to get.

how much does cerakote usually cost to get done to parts?

>>34626506
I don't know how much a shop would charge. They usually charge like 130 to do a slide/frame. Realistically, it shouldn't cost much at all to have some small parts sprayed. It's kind of like getting a tattoo done, you're mostly paying for the artists time and the set-up/clean up that's involved.

>>34626137
navel jelly removes bluing

>>34626137
Don't fucking do it

>>34626137
>Is there anything i can do to polish these parts up without creating a rust issue?
No. Carbon steel will always be prone to rust. You'd have to put some kind of coating on it, like clear lacquer, but I would strongly recommend against that because lacquer can wear off the part unevenly (often chipping off), leading to eventual rust anyway, only it will look extra crappy.

>>34629313
They do make clear cerakote though.

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>>34629330
>cerakote
>not chipping

>>34629342
If you're worried about that level of abuse, you should have your shit anodized, and stainless is the worst option.

>>34629353
How poor of a reader do you have to be to think that I'm the OP?

>>34629342
If it's applied and baked on correctly, it's durable as fuck and won't chip off at all. I'm not even a cerakote fag, I think it's ugly but you can't really argue that it doesn't work well. It's objectively the most durable firearm finish.

>>34629387
Cerakote is very good at standing up to the kinds of durability testing that the company likes to show in their promotional videos, which involves a piece of sandpaper trying to abrade a virgin cerakoted finished piece of metal. However, in reality, once the finish is breached, it comes off from lateral pressure in flakes and looks much uglier than a melonited, blued or parkerized gun that has normal holster wear.

>>34629365
I'm not, idiot, I'm posting it in reference to what you said, and telling OP about cerakote, in case he reads it and decides to create a bias based on your assumptions.

Paste wax like you use on your car will keep it from rusting.