Using electrolysis to remove rust from blued item?

[Peter Laidler]

Better alternative Peregrine is to take your old rusty magazine to Dover and throw it off the white cliffs and I'll send you a new one for the cost of a stamp! Sounds fair to me!

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[Patrick Chadwick]

I'll send you a new one for the cost of a stamp!

Peter, I'll take as many as you can send to Germany, and will be happy to pay the postage, if that is all they are going to cost.

But before emptying out your stores, perhaps you should know that a good Enfield magazine costs 35-45 euros over here, depending on how desperate the buyer is, so it would be a nice little earner for me!

[peregrinvs]

Better alternative Peregrine is to take your old rusty magazine to Dover and throw it off the white cliffs and I'll send you a new one for the cost of a stamp! Sounds fair to me!

A very generous offer, but Patrick would be a far more worthy recipient than I. I'm cleaning it up for fun - not because (other than a charger) I own anything that will connect to it.

Further developments... Digging around on the web suggested that the finish is suncorite over phosphate and not an oxide. My favoured cleaner is Deox-C which is a chelating rather than acidic rust remover. I have therefore stripped the magazine and put the spring plate into some to see if it attacks the finish. I shall leave it for 24 hours, but 2-3 hours on nothing nasty seems to be happening. Fingers crossed...