Hot Blueing in the Bay Area??

[DasTwit]

Howdy folks,

I'm looking for a competent Hot Blueing service in the greater Bay area as Google is failing me here.
Than ks

 

[echo1]

I thought blueing was illegal in Kali. My Smith sends it to Idaho, PAX

 

[AR15barrels]

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[45auto]

+1 for Hot Flash.

 

[Dirk Tungsten]

Thanks for recommending Hot Flash, I have a beater Winchester shotgun that needs some attention.

 

[compulsivegungrabber]

I thought blueing was illegal in Kali. My Smith sends it to Idaho, PAX

I don't know why it would be illegal. Basically, just potassium/sodium nitrate and sodium hydroxide. People put both of these things down the drain, or in the garden all the time.

 

[echo1]

I don't know why it would be illegal. Basically, just potassium/sodium nitrate and sodium hydroxide. People put both of these things down the drain, or in the garden all the time.

Ask any gunsmith if they do it. PAX

 

[AR15barrels]

I don't know why it would be illegal. Basically, just potassium/sodium nitrate and sodium hydroxide.
People put both of these things down the drain, or in the garden all the time.

I don't think its actually illegal.
It's just a royal pain in the backside.
You can't setup bluing tanks in a regular shop because the bluing tanks cause every piece of steel in the shop to rust.
You have to setup a separate room and vent it outside to not turn your whole shop into a rusty space.
Most people with shops are always short on space because we fill our shops with machines and tools and don't have extra space to dedicate to bluing.
I may setup a bluing room when I build my next shop since a lot of the same steps for bluing also cross-over to Parkerizing which I do now.
I keep my Parkerizing setup outside which saves the shop from being a rusty space, but having stuff outside comes with it's own set of hassles.

 

[compulsivegungrabber]

I setup a blueing tank in a steel shed in the yard, and every exposed fastener and hinge is rust brown. Strangely enough, there is not much odor in the process. Kind of an acrid metal smell. A fan at the shed window, neighbors have no clue I'm even doing it. Brownells has a tech sheet on how to bring blueing salts back to a neutral PH, and at that point, it is good to go down the sewer in most municipalities. The only thing in the neutralized waste is going to be iron oxides. I recently welded up a 304 stainless tank and parkerized a few things. The sanding prep on bluing is the time killer, the blast and clean, definitely faster. Pretty sure here in California, anything you want to do, any chemical process of any kind, especially if it is gun related, is illegal. I've thought about starting a shop, move up from just side gigging, but honestly, I would move out of California to someplace more friendly to those kind of businesses.

 

[llamasusmc]

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I’ve used Hot Flash many times. Excellent work.

 

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