On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 04:09:51 PM andy pugh did opine: > On 22 February 2012 20:30, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > So, how does one chemically blacken brass? > > Google says: > http://www.modelshipwrightsdatabase.com/Articles/MetalBlackening.pdf
>From the images there, it appears most of them do leave an excessive amount of gloss on the surfaces. I wonder if an initial cleaning in something like Tarnex, which leaves a dull, non glossy, fairly white surface behind might help? It works great on cartridge cases, then the shine is restored by an overnight session in my Lyman vibrator with a corn cob and rouge carrying media, which I don't do because that media has now been well contaminated with case lube. I don't want the gloss anyway. I'll go see if Jerry's has any of that G96 brass black this evening, it looks about as foolproof as any. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
