I recently acquired a 1978 marlin 30-30. It was in a house fire. It wasn’t brunt but did get wet and left for a couple months. I managed to clean off the rust but the steel is quite pitted. Could a gunsmith clean this up? Everything works very well and is really like to bring this gun up to a bette condition.
Thanks.
Gret
Having been in a fire it may have seen some heat. What I'm getting at is it's temper steel might have been compromised. I would have a gunsmith take a look at it before investing any time or $.
If he thinks its sound....then try some rounds through it.
Depending how deep the pitting is you might be able the use 600, 800, 1000, 2000 grit paper to blend out the pitting.
If that works buy yourself a bench buffing wheel and finishing polish.
Once it's highly polished and it over to a gunsmith to hot blue it.
Good luck
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Having been in a fire it may have seen some heat. What I'm getting at is it's temper steel might have been compromised. I would have a gunsmith take a look at it before investing any time or $.
If he thinks its sound....then try some rounds through it.
Depending how deep the pitting is you might be able the use 600, 800, 1000, 2000 grit paper to blend out the pitting.
If that works buy yourself a bench buffing wheel and finishing polish.
Once it's highly polished and it over to a gunsmith to hot blue it.
Good luck
Do not use a used buffing wheel, or you’ll stand a good chance of impregnating oily deposits in the metal, and then you’ll mess up the bluing salts for who ever tries to blue the rifle.
Having been in a fire it may have seen some heat. What I'm getting at is it's temper steel might have been compromised. I would have a gunsmith take a look at it before investing any time or $.
If he thinks its sound....then try some rounds through it.
Depending how deep the pitting is you might be able the use 600, 800, 1000, 2000 grit paper to blend out the pitting.
If that works buy yourself a bench buffing wheel and finishing polish.
Once it's highly polished and it over to a gunsmith to hot blue it.
Good luck
If the wood is still mostly intact and the springs still hold tension, there would not have been enough heat to affect the temper.
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Do not use a used buffing wheel, or you’ll stand a good chance of impregnating oily deposits in the metal, and then you’ll mess up the bluing salts for who ever tries to blue the rifle.
I personally myself have never had a problem after buffing wheel polish.
Maybe luck? But probably because I use brake clean, rinse, then wax and grease remover.
My gunsmith then uses a rinse tank before salt tank.
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