the tale of a failure

while the rifle standing still in the white in my safe for a year I finally got now the time and leisure to start blueing. have old rust blueing stuff from Suhl here that give the typical very black colour you may see on post war Suhl made guns. after working successful with M 98 parts and allso the small Mosin parts like srews I learned that the magazine box and the magazine cover were made of a steal thats unsuitable for my stuff. I try everything for days but it did not realy rust and when not completly. after boiling it in hot water the rust became like dust and when you dont remove it with steel woll it became loose when you brush the thing with acid again for the next season.
have order hot blueing chemicals now, hope this helps

small parts like the magazine catch works perfect

only cleaned with steel woll again in a moment