Refinishing an Old Remington 341?

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druryj

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I have this old Remington .22 Rifle posted in the classifieds, but it's not getting any interest, so I think I'm gonna pull it down and just take it on as a project. Thanks to Catt57; he has posted a lot of good info and pics on doing this. I'm going to use cold blue on it; not much experience in that, so if anyone has tips and suggestions on which products work best, please share! If it doesn't sell in the next couple days, its going to be sanded, stripped, stained, blued and re-done. I will of course take plenty of pics; both before and after!
 

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I've used the Birchwood Casey

THIS IS supposed to be very good
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I decided to just get off the pot and move on with it; looks like nobody wants this old vintage beater. So, I just got back from Lowes/Wally World with varied grits of sandpaper, 0000 steel wool, tape, stain, Birchwood Casey, and Tung oil. I was told by another member this would take a lot of elbow grease but they were out of it at both places. Guess I'll spend a few minutes sanding the dang thing off then slop some stain on the wood and pour that Birchwood Casey stuff on the metal parts and call it good. This can't be that hard. I should be done in 45 minutes; an hour tops. Here's what I am starting with:
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HAHA! 45 minutes.
I restored an old Mod 12 Winchester. It took days. But I'm pretty picky in how it ends up. I'd recommend hot bluing the metal. Did it to an old .410 once many years ago and it still looks good.
You really have to work hard at getting ALL of the grease and oil out of the metal by heating it in the oven, and swabbing with solvent. Did it more than once, and got residue every time.
Hot blue process, the same. Heat in the oven, rub on the blue, put back in oven, bake, take out, 0000 steel wool, and repeat the process several times.
 

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Subscribed. You might consider the 3M synthetic steel wool pads rather that the steel wool they make now-a-days. I get too many fibers falling off from that stuff.
 

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