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Originally Posted by powderhombre
Since I have your attention, what about areas you do not want to plate? like the inside of the bore? I assume you do not coat with oil or something as you do not want to contaminate the plating solution during the plating process. not to mention using plating concentrate on areas that do not require it, so how is the best way to exclude conecting parts from the plate job. hope I made sense of this. thanks Al
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Caswell has a laquer mask that is allegedly good to 210-deg. I plate the bore on both barrels and cylinder. Blueing is done by driving tapered wood pegs into both ends . Blue is done at higher temps, so those that say the plugged ends will blow out may be in error. I think the wood allows the slight pressure to bleed off. The final pre-bath rinse in distilled water could be done at 180-deg or so instead of room temp. Then the metal wouldn't rise much.