doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Preserving case color on gun used at trap

This was a hot topic not that long ago. Laq thinner or acetone will remove any factory coatings I've seen. I do that and then spray on a fuel-proof poly that modelers use.

I have 30-40 year old guns that see the trap range on a regular basis and have perfect, or as perfect as they were when they came to me, case colors that require no special handling at all.

BTW - If you're using wax you best be putting it on every time you use the gun.

Dr.WtS

WTS:
Give one of the Hard waxes I recommended a try. I usually wax each gun a couple of times a year.
Jim

Cherry Bomb, a quick cursory glance at your recent posts here shows that you've added nothing constructive or instructive lately. And no pix of your guns, which must certainly be of museum quality and rarity either. Since you obviously know everything, or know how to find the answers to any problem, one wonders why you waste your time even looking at the silly posts and queries of mere mortals???

WOW! Like Keith, I just took some time to read some of your more recent posts. What a dick you are!

You can call me Richard! I guess you've let those 5 stars you got from nca225 go straight to your head.

Keith, don't make me laugh! Really! I'm sore from my workout and it hurts.

Replacement
Oscar studied color case hardening in the same manner of any high quality researcher. He did this as a hobby and had the services of a MAJOR University helping him (informal by friends).
I believe the internet came from the U of I , it is indicated to me that a guy who need to dog Oscar thinks Al Gore invented the internet.

Bill

Believing, or not believing, that sunlight will cause case colors to fade will not change the fact that the colors are a result of refraction, of sorts, that results from the surface structure of the steel after the case-hardening procedure. Science says that sunlight will NOT change the surface structure of the steel, so it also will not fade the colors. Read Dr. Gaddy's two part piece on case-hardening, that was published in DGJ, and this will become clear to you.

But, there will probably still be those who prefer to believe the myth. Abrasion (handling) changes the surface structure, resulting in the change in refraction of light and the loss of colors. I wouldn't be surprised if waxing doesn't CONTRIBUTE to the loss, rather than preventing it. Coatings, like the lacquers mentioned, protect the grain structure of the surface, thus protecting the colors.

It is worth mentioning, I guess, that loss of colors in no way means loss of hardness of the surface skin. The colors are simply a BY-PRODUCT of the case hardening procedure, and nothing more, albeit an attractive by-product.

SRH

I don't want to hi-jack this thread but back when I was in college in the late 60's at Ball State in Indiana we had computer access to SUVON the State University network which was part of Arpanet. My understanding was that Arpanet evolved out of the military and to give you and idea of how much things have changed it was a blistering 110bps(TTY) dial up service. And NO Al Gore did NOT invent it!
The U of I was one of the leading developers of CRTs and I had spent time with their development staff in their labs.
Jim

How about Clear Duracoat?
It is a pretty durable finish.
Anyone used Duracoat?