If you leave your Husqvarna m/07 in an unsealed plastic "ammo can", in its holster, outside in Florida humidity...
You get a rusted Husqvarna m/07.
Dammit!
The guilty party has been chastised for their actions.
So I am doing the research to find out how to detail disassemble it and conserve it.
C&Rsenal's sub-channel Anvil is guiding the way.
It looks like, once you get it apart, you wire brush off the big chunks of rust, boil all the oils out of the part, hang it in a steam bath to convert the remaining rust from one kind of iron oxide to another, coat in a rust bluing solution, put it in a hot swamp box, steam bath again then take a carding wheel to it.
Simple!
It looks straight forward enough.
I'm going to give it a try.
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Holy crap, I was just watching them doing the rust blue thing this morning. My latest obsession is restoring old, Damascus barreled shotguns...........
ReplyDeleteMake sure you neutralize it after the last carding so it doesn't continue to rust.
ReplyDeleteMoly be damned! What a shame. I had an old neighbor one time who, when he found out I was a gunny, decided to show me his old Parker shotgun. It was in a leather gun case, and the cloth lining had stuck to `the metal from the rust. He about had a heart attack. I never asked him about it again.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know what a Husky 07 was. Googled it,and took one look, and thought, that's a Browning design. Sure enough. I have a Savage M 07 in 7.65 Browning, AKA32 auto. Pretty good shape 'cept for the missing front sight. For a piece like that, one doesn't really need one.