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General Category => Gunsmithing/Kit builds => Topic started by: Dave on December 21, 2014, 10:17:03 AM

Title: Gun Bluing set up
Post by: Dave on December 21, 2014, 10:17:03 AM

Instead of dropping a couple grand on a bluing set up, Ive decided to build my own for a couple hundred.

 

The tanks are 6 by 6 by 40 black iron 16 gauge sheet metal. There will be 4 tanks total. The basket you see is for tieing off small parts.

 

The burners consist of 1/4 ball valves, a couple of fittings and a home made venturi of a 1 inch to 3/4 reducer, going into 3/4 black iron pipe.

 

Just about everything can be bought from Lowes or Home Depot This is a work in progress, I will update it

 

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Title: Gun Bluing set up
Post by: r.j.gatling on December 27, 2014, 05:03:57 AM

Very well done!

I was more lazy and took long plastic flower-boxes for the barrels of my gun.

Title: Gun Bluing set up
Post by: Dave on December 27, 2014, 10:42:45 AM

That would work for cold bluing, this is a hot blue set up, boiling chemicals!!!

Title: Gun Bluing set up
Post by: 42rocker on December 28, 2014, 05:43:35 PM

Looking forward to seeing more of this. A friend has a parking tank about that size. Done the parking route not the hot bluing.

Again Nice Tank set up.

 

Later 42rocker