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Blue sheet metal.
crueby:
Great video! I went and looked at a number of his other videos too, fascinating stuff on making armour, lots is applicable to models too.
Michael S.:
tghs, thanks for the video.
It looks like it's possible.
I'll have to try it.
Michael
Jo:
A standard propane torch will give you a bit more control over the speed of bluing. Take a leaf out of the watchmaker's bible and blue on a bed of small chips of metal (think contents of swarf tray) this will support the metal and prevent a heat sink cold spot like he had in the centre of his piece.
Be aware that spraying oil on a blue hot metal surface will produce some nasty (possibly dangerous) fumes. I dump my pieces in a dish of oil rather than squirting it - this also causes nasty fumes :paranoia: what ever you do DO NOT try reheating the metal once it is covered with oil.
It is not difficult blueing. I suspect what Stuart supplied in the later years was chemically blued :ShakeHead:
Jo
Michael S.:
Hello Sanjay, I suspect Stuart uses black anodized aluminum sheet these days.
I have a Stuart 4 with this aluminum sheet, and the 10 V is the same. Only a Stuart 9 uses blue steel sheet.
I also think the sheet has to be bent into the correct shape before blueing it. Because it might look like spring steel afterward?
Michael
Vixen:
Hello Michael
Do you have a heat treatment oven by any chance. That would give near perfect temperature control.
Mike
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