A Productive Saturday

[Aragorn243]

You have a good safe way to get rid of chrome? I have several I'd like to get the chrome off of without sending them out.

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I think I read somewhere reverse electrolysis for chrome would change the parent metal But I cant remember to what extent or how detrimental the effect would be.

[browningautorifle]

I'd like to get the chrome off of without sending them out.

You COULD use Muriatic acid too...many do for removing chrome or plate professionally. Then a glass bead blast and parkerize.

The bayonet was nice, the scabbard had seen better days. Still a nice pair.

[cipherk98]

After this week I now know what it is like to have your kind of weekends. They're great A local gun shop decided abruptly to shut their doors with June 30th being their last day. At the end of it all I walked away several guns needing some love but all that will make good projects. First up is a military issued Helwan imported by Navy Arms, missing the recoil spring, guide rod and mag but looks like it will work. Already have the first two parts on order. Bore is pitted and rifling looks soft, nor am I enthused about shooting it, but I have some real light cast loads I'll try it with it as the locking block looks okay.

Second is a Steyr 1912 Chilean action and barrel with a random Mauser bolt that has a P14/M1917 bolt handle on it. Receiver has been reblued but was done very well. Has a .308 barrel on it that looks like one of the turned down two groove Springfields. Everything else is missing except the front sight post/assembly and rear sight block. I thought about maybe using it to build a hunting gun with but by odd luck I had a stock for it laying around in my basement, along with a bayonet lug, barrel band, and handguard. So I need a rear sight ramp assembly (have one), ejector box assembly (may have one that can work), trigger (may have one that will work), and trigger guard/floor plate/magazine assembly. I think if I throw out the 50s era low profile safety on the bolt I can get it to work, as in my experience those things suck, and right now it's binding up the bolt shroud/cocking piece. If not I'm sure Mike has the parts to get it running.

Last thing will probably get it's own thread, but I got an Italian Vetterli that was converted to 6.5 Carcano with about 40 years of dust on it and action still packed with grease. Stock is badly cracked and coming apart in the action/wrist area so I'll need to figure out how I want to approach that. At the moment I'm just cleaning it up externally. I've been looking for a Vetterli for awhile but shied away due to it either being rimfire and needing conversion (swiss), some really obscure cartridge (early Italian), or unshootable (6.5 conversions) but I couldn't say no to this one.

Was the flea market with the Belgian at "antiques capital USA", or as I like to call it "over priced junk capital of the USA"? I've found stuff in that area in the past but most of it is either junk or way over priced. Mostly photo stuff or the occasional machine tool. Never much luck on guns. I did pick up an H&R Sahara at a flea market there once, interesting little auto ejecting straight pull bolt action single shot 22LR that was a great study in making a gun as cheaply and simply as possible. Took a lot of work and TLC but ultimately rebuilt the action, refinished the metal and wood, and it came out looking like brand new, shot nice too. Sold it as it was worth more than I had in it, and the firing pin's method of resetting by using the rim of a new cartridge to push it back (because it almost never reset on ejection as designed) made loading a little too exciting for me.

[mmppres]

Well my next show is Fork's in Allentown. Look me up just might have what you need. You guys find good stuff at house sales. All I find is work. Wife bought 6 milk crates of new floor tile. Wiat till she finds out I don't even know how to tile a floor

[Aragorn243]

What gun shop closed? I hope it wasn't the one I got the Czech rifle from. The Belgian was/might still be at Renningers. You're welcome too it but I wouldn't recommend it. Seriously, negative numbers on the finish. and not just part of it, ALL of it.

Nothing to tiling a floor Mike. You can put it off for a while by telling her you need backer board. After that special screws for the backer board. Then adhesive, then a trowel with proper groove size which you conveniently don't know. This could go for months.

[mmppres]

Wow now i know how to Tile a floor correctly

[Doco overboard]

Renningers in Schuylkill Haven?

[cipherk98]

Not the shop you got the Czech from.

I have a love hate relation with Renningers of Denver. I rarely make in time to the outdoor market so can't comment much on that, but whenever I go inside I either find something I like and it's way over priced, or the stand isn't open/stand owner is MIA. Did score a real nice pair of Leitz binoculars there for $15 once though. Also have on occasion picked up other interesting small things, never any militaria. Neat place to go though when I'm in the mood to walk and get a little lost.

[Aragorn243]

Renningers in Adamstown/Denver. Outdoor market is packing up at 10:00am anymore, drives me nuts. Beautiful day and people milling around and the dealers are packing up. Not all, the regulars stay until after lunch but you see them every week. I guess they get there at 5:00am or something like that. Very few firearms inside anymore. Ever since the Obama "must have an FFL license" scare, they have all dried up except for a very occasional one. I rarely even go inside. There is a lot of military stuff up the road where there are two shops on the west side of the road up on a little hill. Can't think of their names. Hard to miss, just keep driving north on 272. The Mad Hatter has some militaria also.