On 2009-01-10, Maxwell Lol wrote:
Ignoramus7855 writes:

Steve, how about rusting them a little with muriatic acid/moisture
treatment, and then heating them to orange red hot in the air, they
should asquire a black oxide patina. Maybe that will work? The stuff
that I heated to that temperature looks kind of rustic after that.

use zinc plated ones for this.

Muriatic acid would take zinc off first.
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