Savage Bolt Polishing

[Boomstick308]

I've seen this article http://www.steyrscout.org/savscout.htm and I was just wondering if there were any other sources on performing this. Maybe a write up with pictures and/or sandpaper grits or polishing compounds.

If any one has done this, how did you do it and how much of a difference did it make?

 

[punkpigpen]

Re: Savage Bolt Polishing

i have a little experience polishing. if its blued then take 400 grip sand paper and buff out all the blueing til its silver..then take 400 grit and smooth that all out...get some white jewelers rouge from the hardware store as well as a buffing wheel for your drill and lightly buff till shiny and polished. if done right it will polish to a mirror finish. there you go.

 

[AXEMAN]

Re: Savage Bolt Polishing

i emailed the guy that wrote it and he said he used 600 paper so i did too. you can look at the write up and then your bolt and where the parts move and easily see the wear thats already starting on your factory blackened bolt. just polish those spots all the way around, where there is black, make it silver and then clean it all up with something to get the grit off and lube it back up and you will feel an immediate improvement. its simple, its not rocket surgery. you wont mess anything up. id guess you could get 800 or 1000 or 1500 to keep going. rubbing compound, polishing compound and jewelers rouge. but the 600 is fine so far

 

[-Snyper-]

Re: Savage Bolt Polishing

I bought a buffing wheel that mounts on my bench grinder, then purchased buffing rogue that starts at 600 grit and ends at 2000 grit. with 1000 and 1600 between the two. Then degresed everything, reoiled, and put back together. To me the wheel cuts the time in half, but you have to be on the careful side when polishing on the lower, 600 grit, not to dig to deep. In between the different grits I clean and resurface the wheel, so the previous grit is not mixed.

 

[Boomstick308]

Re: Savage Bolt Polishing

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AXEMAN</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i emailed the guy that wrote it and he said he used 600 paper so i did too. you can look at the write up and then your bolt and where the parts move and easily see the wear thats already starting on your factory blackened bolt. just polish those spots all the way around, where there is black, make it silver and then clean it all up with something to get the grit off and lube it back up and you will feel an immediate improvement. its simple, its not rocket surgery. you wont mess anything up. id guess you could get 800 or 1000 or 1500 to keep going. rubbing compound, polishing compound and jewelers rouge. but the 600 is fine so far </div></div>

I came across your "DIY Bolt lift kit" write up, thats just what I was looking for. I'll try that once my 10 HS P comes in, I guess I'll contact SSS to get one for my accustock 10 Precision Carbine. If this doesn't make it feel the way I want it to then I'll consider polishing these surfaces.