Elwood Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 I have a stainless steel action that has been vapour blasted and I would like to return it back to its original condition. Please I don't want any guess work here, I need a formula that is proven as the action will have to match a polished stainless barrel. Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danpd Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 What action is it? A cylindrical action will be much easier to polish than a square sided action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted June 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 What action is it? A cylindrical action will be much easier to polish than a square sided action. Its a Stiller Viper action which is a flat base, flat side action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danpd Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 Vipers are probably about the worst action you could have picked for this! The integral picatinny rail is going to be an arse. Your going to have to work up through the grits with a piece of flat ground bar stock as a backer. If the vapour blasting isn't too rough then you should be able to start at 6-800 grit, use long fluid strokes changing direction with each grit so you can be sure you have removed the previous scratches. Once you have gone through the wet/dry papers then work through some 3M micron finishing papers. After this you should be able to polish to a shiny finish with some metal polish. I can't stress enough how important it is to use high quality abrasives, otherwise you will never get rid of the large scratches from oversize abrasive particles. Be very careful of using buffing wheels, they can round over all your sharp edges, and your £1400 action will look crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsgobang88 Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 Hi Ian, Give it to a London trained Best gun & rifle finisher (hint) who can keep all radi even and flats flat! Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxshooter Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 Sell it as a vapor blasted action and buy another shiney one. I wouldnt have thought the costs involved would make this viable. You could always blast the barrel and go for a matte finish..... MArk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsgobang88 Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 Sell it as a vapor blasted action and buy another shiney one. I wouldnt have thought the costs involved would make this viable. You could always blast the barrel and go for a matte finish..... MArk I wish! A quality hand polishing job on such an action would not be more than 20% of the action cost, Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted June 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Dan and Alan thank you for your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-NZ Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 A quality hand ..job .. would not be more than 20% of the (full) action cost, Applies to a lot of things in life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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