Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
Phone Brian at BDLicon in SC, (he's on this site) ask him to look at the photos and then ask him to give you a quote for bead blasting the steelwork, phosphating and painting. You fully strip it and carefully assemble it afterwards. It's easy!

The rust removal is with the blaster. The future rust preventer is the phosphate treatment and the protection is the paint. Assuming that you aren't going to use the rifle in the monsoons or fight in the mangrove swamps of Johore in Malaya, a good quality oven bake exhaust paint will probably do. The old lady deserves better than a cat lick I say!
I appreciate the info and got with Brian a little bit ago. Looks like I'm going to have to do some saving to pull off the full treatment on it. I'm sure it'd be well worth it, just outside the budget limits at the moment.

I'm going to do some debating on where to go for now. I hate to do too much getting it shootable without doing something to finish and protect it. Maybe at least get a start on it and try the electrolysis to get the rust stopped and keep it oiled until I get the funds up.