Versatile Bluing Tray
You may have seen me using a cobbled together "tray" made from scraps, to blue screws for the current clock build. In fact it's surprising how many years you can go using a temporary solution!
It finally started to bug me though, so I took a bit of time to make something a little more permanent.
It's a simple idea, but remarkably effective at ensuring that the heat distribution over the part to be blued is uniform, and slow - two important criteria for getting a good quality color from heat bluing.
I describe it as being "versatile", mainly because the handle can be fitted to multiple pans. In future it is likely that I will also make a long rectangular pan of some sort, to take care of clock hands too.
It finally started to bug me though, so I took a bit of time to make something a little more permanent.
It's a simple idea, but remarkably effective at ensuring that the heat distribution over the part to be blued is uniform, and slow - two important criteria for getting a good quality color from heat bluing.
I describe it as being "versatile", mainly because the handle can be fitted to multiple pans. In future it is likely that I will also make a long rectangular pan of some sort, to take care of clock hands too.
