Black wire for eye bolts/rings

[Johnnyreg]

Thanks aviaamator. Neat looking eyes and rings. I’m using same method for creating rings but I’m committing to using bare copper now then blacked after. 

 

Thanks Greg. All good advice. I think your right about the silver soldering of the rings being a bit overkill but it’s a new skill I need to master so will do a few more that way until I get confident or bored, whichever happens sooner. 

On 26/04/2018 at 4:05 AM, dvm27 said:

I can't imagine why you would need to solder the breeching rings unless your cannon was actually going to fire!

Hmmm... where can I get some 2mm cannon balls 

 

Anyway thanks to all of you for your great comments. I’ve put it all into practice now and here is what I came up with.

 

 

 

My Blackening routine was:
1 Clean in hot soapy water with an old toothbrush and rinse in water
2 Soak in White Vinegar for 10 minutes and rinse in water
3 Soak in neat Birchwood Casey Brass Black (BCBB) for about 30 secs and rinse in water
4 Clean any CA residue patches (not blacked) with Acetone
5 Polish with paper towel
6 repeat previous steps from 3 until satisfied (3 or 4 times I found for me)
 

I didn’t get a true black finish but I’m reasonable happy with the dark grey that I got. Also I only handled the items with tweezers during the blacking process.

 

Thanks all again. 

[hornet]

2mm cannon balls can be obtained on eBay.  Type in 2mm steel ball bearings. I was able to blacken mine but you could paint with dull (metal) black from Admiralty Paints. 

[Johnnyreg]

18 hours ago, hornet said:

2mm cannon balls can be obtained on eBay.  Type in 2mm steel ball bearings. I was able to blacken mine but you could paint with dull (metal) black from Admiralty Paints. 

I was trying to be humorous but still handy to know for the future, thank you. 

[josu]

On 3/27/2018 at 6:48 PM, mtaylor said:

To blacken copper, use Liver of Sulfur.   See EdT's log as he uses this exclusively and it does a beautiful job.

Good morning.

What is exactly liver of sulfur?

 

Thanks

[wefalck]

It's the common or 'trivial' name for potassium polysulfide, i.e. K₂S_x with x = 2 to 6.

[josu]

Thanks a lot Wefalck.

I entered with that name and appeared The "liver".

 

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