Reproduction Restoration

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Originally Posted by Channing Will

I can't say exactly what the cause was in this Repro case, but a few years ago we did a batch of partial restorations for one of the larger SxS dealers in the midwest. They had a client who stored about 100 firearms in Jeff's outfitters cases. While pulling a gun out for pictures he noticed some rust on it. When he started opening the other cases there was rust on most all of them, some very minor and others worse than this reproduction we just did.

It was bizarre in that the rust didn't form on contact points like this reproduction did. It was mostly on unfinished steel parts like rim cuts, extractors, triggers, and non-hardened parts like trigger guards and barrels. The only thing they could figure was the cases were off-gassing from the adhesive or possibly the felt inside the cases and that reaction was enough to attack the soft/bare steel.

I bought some of those cases from maybe who you are talking about and had a Damacus Ithaca in one closed for about 2 weeks when I opened it up one day I about sh......t my pants never again and the case still had Jeffs paperwork in it. I think the case was the problem no other gun has ever rusted in that room