Bluing rust?

[Peter Laidler]

You have to accept to start with that rust is corrosion and blueing is a form of controlled corrosion (that's not strictly correct in some cases as a chemist or metallurgist will confirm). I say this because some people just won't accept this simple fact of life....., and that it has already started to eat its way into the steel. So unless you want to linish or whatever you do to get below the corrosion, you'll just have to accept the pitted nature of the beast!

That's your problem. If you want to keep the original parts (that's assuming that they are original - although what counts as original is subject to some dispute.....) you've got to accept pitted parts (albeit slightly pitted) but at least they'll be ORIGINAL pitted parts or start again by electrolysis/bead blasting and have them re-blued/blacked. IN which case, they might be original, but they certainly won't convince anyone........

What a dilemma eh? I say just deal with the corrosion as best you can with a stiff copper wire brush, keep it oiled and treat it as the grand, old but starting to look her age dignified old lady that she is. Just my 2c's worth