Restoration Help Please

[Jerry VanHorn]

I just removed my 16 hammer gun stock from the alcohol bath this AM. The aluminum baking pan...and I use a piece of glass for the cover..is a perfect way to do it. I soaked it for a week in acetone...turning it 3-4 times a day...Then..5 days in clean alcohol..Now hanging to dry for a least 10 days. This method always worked for me.

[wayne goerres]

Don't buy the cheap pans from Wally World. Garenteed to have a hole in it somewhere. I have lost about three gallons of acetone using them. I don't bother with them any more.

[Brian Arthur]

I just found this thread. I am doing EXACTLY the same thing as you, Paul. I bought a real beater of a VH for $230 and am using it to learn about the guns. Steps completed so far:
- Disassembled the receiver to the level described by Brian Dudley. Ultrasonically cleaned and walnut tumbled the Trigger plate and triggers. Parts still are highly mottled, so next steps are to try polishing the parts.
- Bought a nice book on engraving
- Read almost all the posts under "Parker Restorations". Yet I persist...

[Mike Franzen]

Brian if you have any before pics how about post ing them now and updating from time to time?

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Brian Arthur

so next steps are to try polishing the parts.

Oh the horrors

[B. Dudley]

Without annealing the parts, you will find that polishing and re-cutting engraving will be a bit of a bear. Especially those walked borders on the VH.

[Tom Flanigan]

I could be wrong but I always believed parts need to be annealed before case hardening to prevent issues. I think Oscar told me that once, but I don't know for sure.

[Brian Arthur]

I have started a thread under Parker Restorations titled, "Learning on a VH" to document my journey.

I look forward to continuing the conversations there!