On 2010-05-08, Steve Lusardi wrote:
Iggy,

This depends on the investment you want to make. If it's a quick and
dirty, go to Brownells and get a small bottle of gun black. Of
course it looks like it is, a patch job. If you want to do it right,
you must repolish to white metal and reblue in a salt bath at 295
F. The blueing salt can also be purchased from Brownells. If you do
not return to white metal, you will get blotching. If you want to do
the latter, read a book, it can be tricky, but not difficult. I used
to do it a lot, but I no longer maintain a salt bath. the key is
clean, clean and very, very clean. Not even skin oil. So we are
talking about white cotton gloves. Steve

Steve, thanks, this is a cheap little kids shotgun. Not worth the
hassle of a salt bath.

i

"Ignoramus9556" wrote in message ...
I have a little 20 gauge shotgun that has some rust on the barrel. It
is functional despite that, but I would like to clean it up a bit. I
would like to know what is the proper procedure. I guess I can remove
rust and even polish it a bit, but then I would somehow blacken the
barrel again. Is there anything that you would recommend for this sort
of thing. Thanks

i