On the airrifle forum was a guy making knives. He made a vacuum chamber that he placed the resin impregnated canvas in. The idea is to draw the entrap...

What do you use to vacuum all the air out?

No one in modern times that I am aware of still use copper units of pressure. It has been proven that there is no set factor for converting CUP to KPS...

Is this once-fired, mixed head stamp brass?

You can use anyting as a barrel cleaner I guess. And talc might be fine, but it is still an abrasive. Brasso might by OK to get the copper out, but I ...

Brasso is a mixture of ammonia, kerosene and talcum powder.The ammonia corrodes the copper, the talcum is a fine abrasive that abrades the corrosion a...

You may want to keep acids away from any metals you do not want rusting.Alcohols are not great for your skin long term unless mixed with a skin moistu...

Thing about rust-converter. It must be applied to rust. Applying to bare steel it does not adhere very well. So, wire-wheel only as this does not remo...

Also, keep the condenser clean and keep the evaporator ice free.Check door seals regularly.And test your internal latch release regularly.

You can attach photos on this forum by selecting "Preview" at the bottom of the text box. Then "Click or drag files here" appears ...

Can you see these?Yes, thanks.

Might be difficult to believe, but I have trouble picturing in my mind what you describe.

Looks like you've used almost a thousand words there. Some photos would not go amis. Would save you typing a few thousand more.

Depending how desperate you are, it might be worth it to buy an old P14, take all the spares off it possible and hand it in for destruction.

Saying that applying heat to partially reduce the hardness and increase ductility is not annealing is just not accurate. Just because users do not do ...