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black oxide touchup

Offline tonyg

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black oxide touchup
on: October 19, 2017, 06:58:43 PM
what would be the best way to touch up black oxide plier tips after blunting them?  would a sharpie do the trick or is there a better way?  thanks.......


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Re: black oxide touchup
Reply #2 on: October 20, 2017, 07:14:57 AM
I don't think the cold blueing solutions work on stainless.  Not sure if there is an easy way to do it. :think:


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Re: black oxide touchup
Reply #3 on: October 20, 2017, 07:36:08 AM
I don't think the cold blueing solutions work on stainless.  Not sure if there is an easy way to do it. :think:
He mentiones in post #4 that it's for metal and steel ;)


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Re: black oxide touchup
Reply #4 on: October 20, 2017, 02:24:58 PM
Graphite dry spray works quite well, you have to redo it once in a while.

I used it to coat a saw blade on this mod

https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,67583.0.html

And to coat the plier head on my ST300 where the BO wore off



 

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