How long before a gun rusts?

[benEzra]

A question. Is Gork now making the barrels of their pistols out of plastic also? Just wondered since someone above seemed to be claiming that a Gick! won't rust. But it would seem to me that a steel barrel's interior would sorta kinda tend to be in the white ya know, what with all those moderately abrasive bullets & flame fronts passing (hopefully) through it. And, believe it or not, bare steel can rust. Except apparantly when placed in a Gack! pistol.

The barrel of a Glock (and some Walthers and Steyrs) is treated with a carbon nitride process inside and out, which makes it more corrosion resistant than hard chroming.

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenifer

The Tenifer finish on a Glock is the third and final hardening process. It is 0.05 millimeters thick and produces a 64 Rockwell C (diamond cone) hardness rating via a 500 °C nitride bath. The final matte, non-glare finish meets or exceeds stainless steel specifications, is 85% more corrosion resistant than a hard chrome finish, and is 99.9% salt-water corrosion resistant.

Here's a description of the carbon nitriding process, for those interested:

http://www.keighleylabs.co.uk/tufftride.html

 

[expvideo]

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Ok lets say i hate rust on guns, lets say i may be staying over at someones apartment tonight in an area that id feel like having my one and only CCW on me, i dont generally carry and im quite paranoid when it comes to rust and stuff like that on my guns, if i handle my beretta to load a magazine then put the thing in my pocket for sayyy 48 hours, (id like to point out this apartment is quite humid for the most part 24/7) then come home, will there be rust / corrosion forming on it?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!

Really? Just out of curiousity, is your name Monk?

Or to put it a little more nicely, no. Your gun will not rust in 48 hours from being in your pocket.

This is the funniest thing I've read today.

 

[PILMAN]

I haven't had any problems with rust though I always wipe them down. I use Eezox which is heavier than water and just coat the guns, lasts for about 6 months and works great. I've touched guns and left fingerprints on them and there's no rust on them. The only gun I have that has some rust is my Galil which was built from a parts kit but it was rusted when I got it in certain areas like the sights. Sometimes I get some discoloration from oily finger prints but usually it rubs out with a rag.

Oh and +1 about people with red hair rusting guns lol.

 

[Animal Mother]

Oh and +1 about people with red hair rusting guns lol.

Is there any truth to this thing about red haired people having such a different body chemistry? Seems like an old wives tale or something, but I've heard of much stranger things. It sounds like a great science experiment for my nephews...

 

[TehK1w1]

Is everyone here absolutely sure you wiped all of your guns down the last time you handled them? Did you drag your finger on it as you put it away? They could be sitting there rusting. Better go clean them to be sure.... Do it right this time!

I think some of you are obsessive compulsive.

I have several guns that Will rust without fail in less than 48 hours, if I were to accidentally make any kind of skin contact and not wipe it down afterwards. Strangely enough, the blueing looks perfect.

 

[NC-Mike]

I left a shotgun, a lever-action rifle and 4 pistols in a safe for 8 years. Never opened it once. When I did, there was not a spec of rust on any of them.

 

[Macmac]

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Oh and +1 about people with red hair rusting guns lol.

Is there any truth to this thing about red haired people having such a different body chemistry? Seems like an old wives tale or something, but I've heard of much stranger things. It sounds like a great science experiment for my nephews...

Animal Mother if you have the heathen red hair children around try it. Just don't use a gun or a good knife. I reccomend taking a worn out file, and hitting it with a grinder to knock off the file teeth and polish a section with some course sand paper on a power wheel to sort of smooth the surface.

Wash it with rubbing alcohol or barke kleen, which is a bit more costly.

Get the kids after play time and before they wash their hands, and have them handle you 'piece'. Then set it aside for as ling as you please. In a humid envrioment say 60% with in 12 hours you should have etched finger prints you can't remove with steel wool.

I had heard this, and didn't believe, but a ruined short sword I made, cause me to become a believer.

It was after that when I made 2 silver braclets for a red haird man that I got another surprise. He called saying he was being shocked! He came back with in about 24 hours time and the tarnish on the underside of these braclets brand new the day before were black! There was pitting too!

 

[Old Guy]

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[/I used to live near a seacoast, where I once saw a war trophy Radom * with a forensic-quality fingerprint on the slide --it was not my gun.
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Many years ago a gun came into the gun club, found under a bed after the old guy (who owned the house) died it was a radom, unloaded, but rusted closed.

It sat in a pail of kerosene for a while (2 months?) then was taken in to little bits, degreased, assembled, with a light coat of oil! Fired! last I heard it worked fine, heavy as a boat anchor though.

 

[regal]

My doctor has me on 2000 mg of vitamin C per day for my kidneys. If I touch a blued gun it will rust in 24 hrs. Even if I wipe it down with remoil immediately after touching , the blueing stains brown the next day. The only way I can keep a blued gun from rusting is if I clean where I touch with solvent then wipe down with oil.

Needless to say I don't mess with blued guns, in my mind they are junk. I know that blueing is fine for most but not me.

 

[Macmac]

regal , What color is your hair?