{"id":316,"date":"2009-06-20T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T10:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-01-03T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T10:19:42","slug":"gun-bluing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Gun Bluing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The control panel is now in place.  A couple minor things to do like tie back the wiring with wire ties, but done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/arcade\/?attachment_id=317\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/pede1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Centipede Mini Control Panel\" title=\"Centipede Mini Control Panel\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pede1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pede1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Centipede Mini Control Panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About six months ago I learned that black bolts aren&#8217;t actually black&#8230;they&#8217;ve been blued using the same process that they use to &#8220;blue&#8221; gun barrels.<\/p>\n<p>There are two different processes&#8230;hot and cold.<\/p>\n<p>Hot involves chemicals and temperatures that I have absolutely no way of achieving here @ Casa del Peale.<\/p>\n<p>Cold is easy, but involves toxic chemicals.  I just bought a little container of the solution, dipped in my part, rinsed it off and wiped it down.  Repeated that a couple times.  Turned these zinc plated bolts black in nothing flat.<\/p>\n<p>The bolts were also polished down to remove the raised lettering on top.  Started with 120 grit, then moved to 400, then to 800. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/arcade\/?attachment_id=318\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/pede2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Centipede Mini control panel bolts closeup\" title=\"Centipede Mini control panel bolts closeup\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pede2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pede2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Centipede Mini control panel bolts closeup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The control panel is now in place. A couple minor things to do like tie back the wiring with wire ties, but done. About six months ago I learned that black bolts aren&#8217;t actually black&#8230;they&#8217;ve been blued using the same process that they use to &#8220;blue&#8221; gun barrels. There are two different processes&#8230;hot and cold. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}