cognitivefun said:
Does Ballistol help protect brass?
If not, what do y'all use for keeping brass shiny (if anything...what law says brass should be shiny?)
B-L can spot brass, but then lots of things do. I hate brass and I don't take much care of it except to polish it on a safe queen now and then. I don't care if it tarnishes, doesn't hurt the use of the khuk.
But in spite of it spotting the brass I use it all over my khuk's. Why use more than one product when you don't have too? And why worry about your khuk's anyway?
They require a very minimum of care to stay rust free and servicable.
If you must the easiest and best way to care for brass is like they teach you in the Army, polish it.:grumpy:
You can coat it with clear fingernail polish or any polyurethane, laquer or whatever and it will keep it from tarnishing.
But lo the day it ever gets a scratch in the protective material as it will tarnish and you have to scrub the finish off.:grumpy: :barf:
If I had my drather's I'd have steel furniture on all of my khuk's.
Steel will develop a patina that won't rust unless scratched and exposed to the wet.
I've got an old villager chiruwa AK that I threw in the trunk of our old Dodge and left it there for about 3 years without anything on it.
It's still sharp and has a minimum of rust and dirt on it after all that time.
Ask Uncle Bill what the khuks look like in Nepal and he'll say, "Rusty!"
I'm beginning to believe that's a good color for a using khuk, at least it's "tactical" without doing anything to it.
