Coming on a real treat. Looking superb.
Brian's Sovereign of the seas
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I can't understand why you don't want to paint hundreds of tiny hinges Brian! All looking great.
Machine looks good. Steel and Nickle Silver always takes blackening solutions well. As to brass, it’s probably coated in photoresist from the etching process. Carrs used to make a product called Aciddip that was useful for cleaning and preparing etched brass for blackening. Also, not all blackening solutions are equal. Never had much success with blackening brass until I went over to Birchwood Casey Gun Blue. That stuff works a treat, at least, it did for me.
Looking very good Brian.
Looks superb Brian, very nice work all round.
Morning all, finished the gun doors and moved on to the dead-eye assembly, and found myself with the same problem! they need to be black and the chain link and brackets are coated with something that the bluing liquid doesn't like and won't take so looks like paint is the only way to go, found some admiralty iron black which will do the job.
Question! what colour were the dead-eyes black or natural kit says natural but i'm not sure. (on my victory they were black but that was a fair bit later)
Question! what colour were the dead-eyes black or natural kit says natural but i'm not sure. (on my victory they were black but that was a fair bit later)
There must be a lacquer on those parts. Could you try washing them in cellulose thinners and then try the bluing fluid again?
Pete
Pete
I'll give it a go Pete, looking at them closely it's more like a photo resist from the etching process.
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