Rust Bluing Tutorial - Turn any Steel Object Black With Household Materials

Most American coins are mostly zinc. I read on the treasury website that its perfectly legal to use coins for their raw materials as well. For anyone not wanting to mess with batteries

Depending on the purity of the hydrogen gas produced I'd be breathing as much in as I could and/or storing it in a vessel with potable water, which when shaken sufficiently should yield hydrogen rich water. You really ought to read the research surrounding the medical benefits of breathing/drinking/bathing in hydrogen infused water, there must be dozens of studies with scads of benefits and I've never seen a downside

why not just ferric chloride? not that i am an expert...blessings

On the oiling- submerging the piece in USED too hot to hold about 110 Degrees) but clean motor oil for 24 hours this will result in a high Glos finish. as always, the repolishing prep work affects the end process.
this was a process was passed down to me by a gunsmith who started out in a blacksmith shop at 16 years old in the 1930s. the end result is a deep blue hue I have used this process for 25 years.

OUSTANDING!

Or, buy some cold black for $15

I did a few different types. Your method overlaps. the hot water will turn red to black rust (after carding with steelwool) i missed that in a passed job..that turned out plum brown...the last one i did with hot soft water bath turned black...black black...i think this would have rubbed off..but i stabilized with drying oil .linseed tung paste wax.also you can burnish with .003" "wire" brush.the best general utility i have found ..treat steel parts with paint prep phosphoric acid or navel gel...works great after light bead blast...i did a few,looked nice gray. Duhhh...i rubbed on black stain! Then rub on a drying oil like tung oil..great for an old 22 or mossberg pump ..basicly wipe everything off it is easy..a gunsmith would think its real..and you can touch it up. Thanks again..your method looks good i encourage you to check out different processes. I learned about rust bluing at about 8 years old im still learning at 62!

First time i heard of the peroxide,thanks again...

Ive used a solution of H2O2 (10% solution) and just adding some (just a small bit) salt to it. Worked just fine. And its very cheap and easy to obtain.

Provato il procedimento varie volte, in certi casi il metallo apparentemente annerisce correttamente, ma se esposto alla luce naturale si nota un non trascurabile alone giallo sul pezzo? Da cosa potrebbe dipendere? Troppa soluzione? Poca soluzione? Leggevo come possibilità la non uniformità della lega d'acciaio che viene quindi brunita in modo irregolare...

I like your boiling tank set up. I use the same tank and loose alot of heat with the open burners i use. Thanks for the info.

For a more complex part can I use an ultrasonic cleaner instead of steel wool to remove the extra rust off the bluing layer?

I really like your videos. Can you do a tutorial with parkerizing/ fosphating? I experimented with this process on some parts with mixed result.

excellent training video

One of the best descripitions ever. Tks!

Can we use ferric chloride to rust the part ?

Excellent tutorial. Immediately subscribed.

Total cost on Amazon for 37% hydrochloric acid, ammonium chloride, and zinc chloride was about $60. I have more than enough for more firearms than I'll ever own! Thanks, I'm so excited to try this out.

Great video!
How would one achieve the shiny black of modern colts and smith revolvers????

blacksmiths use ferric chloride to micro etch polished metal , why don't you use that ?

I got lost between the zinc chloride/ammonium chloride/hydrochloric acid solution and the hydrogen peroxide. Are you saying one can be substituted for the other, or the hydrogen peroxide step comes after the zinc chloride/ammonium chloride/hydrochloric acid solution?

Zinc chlorine can be found as soft soldering flux.

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Absolutely fantastic video. Thank you Sir

I do this to my steel impact bits but with much more housetold type items. All I use is acetone, white vinegar, salt , peroxide, and boiling water. I clean them with acetone first. Then I soak them in vinegar for 5 mins. Then a mix of salt and peroxide. Maybe a teaspoon of salt to a cup of peroxide. Let that soak another 5 to 10 minites. You will see the rust start to form and react. Then I put then in boiling water for 10 minutes. To go darker just repeat the proccess. I just did a handful of impact driver bits the other night. Don't forget to oil them up after. Also I later did a few where I just added the vinegar to the salt/h2o2 mix to make it one step. This does make small amounts of peracetic acid tho so be careful. What the result is turning iron oxide (Fe2o3)into black oxide (Fe3O4). It's basicaly black oxide coating like the black nuts and bolts you can buy at tsc.

Great video

Can we also get the black and blue shade in it from Rust bluing
Pls reply

I tried hydrogen peroxide on a piece of steel that I cleared of oxides using a steel wire brush but it did absolutely nothing.
First I had stabalized hp and thought that could be the issue so I bought pure hp and it again did absolutely nothing.
I also tried different steels.
I bought 12% and diluted it to 6%.
I even heated the steel and then applied the hp and again nothing happened.

Is there any simple way to prevent the black iron oxide from coating your iron parts when trying to remove rust?

what if you want to get rid of a shiddy black nitride coating thats already wearing off just in your pocket? If i was rich I'd send it out and have it engraved and plated. But what do?

Thank you so much for sharing in such a clear and simple way!! I imagine there's a good reason why you don't add the Peroxide directly to the rusting salts mixture, but I must admit that I can only guess as to why. Would you mind sharing your thoughts on why not to add Peroxide directly? Thanks again for your integrity and hard work!! 🙂

Mine turned a dark brown and seemed to leave a pitted look to the metal. Idk wtf happenned.

It's a very beautiful revolver.

You’re a great teacher. This is the first video I’ve seen by you, I’m 4 minutes in, and I stopped and subscribed. Thank you for sharing your videos, and I wish you success and happiness.

Should i do this to a ring? Is it safe to use a ring made of steel coated with this bluing rust?

Finally gave this a go for the first time today and I am beyond pleased with the results

Does anyone know if this process is possible on a stainless steel rifle barrel? I am going to get a replacement barrel for my competition rifle but everything out there seems to pretty much be stainless only with some carbon fibre barrels here and there as well. I have heard there are issues with the colour not getting to that deep blue on stainless steel is this right?

You can get zinc for free if you ask at a tyre shop for wheel weights.

I didn't expect a video on this random topic to be so superlative in quality and conciseness that it blows most instructionals out of the water.

Does nitric acid blacken 40% iron? I mean the color?
For example, such as the color of weapons such as AKM??????????????????????

For bluing i use white vinegar, salt and peroxyde and it's work well

Dang! nice job - well done! ThanX!

Hello, I discovered your channel from France. Thank you for the information regarding the tanning of weapons. I myself have two weapons to tan: a Walther PPK from 1936 and a Ruby from 1915. I will follow the advice you give. Thank you, friend.

That revolver just before the 9 minute mark would be gorgeous with a polished hammer and trigger

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Hi, great video on this topic. I have a couple questions. Firstly, which is it "Backyard Ballistics" or "Beyond Ballistics"? My OCD demands an answer :) I'm rebluing a Mauser 1914 pistol using this method. I've been doing rust, boil, card, repeat. Is there any benefit to doing rust, card, rust, card, rust, card, rust, boil, card?

Can you blue stainless steel?

I'm going to try this, but the next problem I ran into was how to boil a barrel - it's not going to fit into a pot. I haven't tried it yet, but an inexpensive solution that occurred to me is a poultry feeder.

They come in 18, 24, 36 and 28 inch lengths. Some of them are just folded sheet metal without seams. Others do have seams, but I bet you could seal them up with heat-resistant silicone or JB weld - it only has to withstand 100 C afterall.

There ARE stainless versions, but I can't find any locally. The galvanized ones though, are cheap - like <$10 Canadian for a 24 inch. I doubt that would cause any significant issues, though maybe you'll need to boil outdoors or with ventilation, just in case.

The other idea I saw suggested online was a piece of aluminum gutter with end caps - but a section of gutter, two end caps, maybe a couple screws and some silicone would be more like $50 Canadian, maybe more (might make sense if you already have some of this lying around though).

why should be the battery unused? the zinc will still be there? no?