I am contemplating bluing (rust bluing) the tailstock spindle, tell me how bad an idea this is.
a little background, I live in Louisiana and the humidity here is a slow motion holocaust against good machines. I'm pretty good at rust-bluing for firearms preservation and knives, etc. and it will come out looking nice.
I've already blued up some non-critical bright steel parts that I know won't matter, but the TS spindle/shaft? I don't know if I should.
attached an example of the finish on a rod-end
a little background, I live in Louisiana and the humidity here is a slow motion holocaust against good machines. I'm pretty good at rust-bluing for firearms preservation and knives, etc. and it will come out looking nice.
I've already blued up some non-critical bright steel parts that I know won't matter, but the TS spindle/shaft? I don't know if I should.
attached an example of the finish on a rod-end