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I need to use some cold blue. Which gives the best overall results?
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Oxpho Blue or 44-40.... prep is important whichever one you use....
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Oxpho Blue creme, 44-40 is some nasty chit.
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Cold blue is usually best applied to warm -to-the-touch steel. But warming the metal isn't strictly necessary.
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Buy em all and test em all on the piece of steel to be used. Oxpho is not as dark as it is tough. Sometimes a wimpy dark like Dicropan, and then if fills the grooves with wimpy black. Then Oxpho get rubbed in hard and covers the ridges. Oxpho does well left under a coat of oil overnight. I often have good luck with G96 https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/gu...several-cold-bluing-products-w-pics.html
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Thanks for the replies. Dave
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G96 works good even when my can dried up it still worked
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I haven’t tried it, but say a video where the guy applied browning solution first and then used Oxpho and supposedly got a very deep cold blue finish!
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I haven’t tried it, but say a video where the guy applied browning solution first and then used Oxpho and supposedly got a very deep cold blue finish! That works great. Another trick is to heat up the parts that you are going to blue as well. Not super hot, a little heat helps though..
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Thanks to all for the input. I cold blued my Inglis High Power with Oxpho-blu. The finish had already been stripped. I heated it with a blow drier and applied 4 coats. I slathered it with Eezox and let is sit over night before wiping the excess off. I installed new springs and have black VZ slim pro grips on the way. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qutGwk0.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/jskRiiD.jpg)
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I use oxpho-blue also and have been pleased with touch ups and small parts. I have not done a whole weapon. Nice looking Inglis, looking for one myself.
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I no longer use anything but oxho-blue
I prefer classic.
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I go over it with 0000 steel wool lightly. I am trying Nu Blue and it looks good but doesn't like higher chrome alloys.
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