Star Super B Fiasco

So roughly four months ago I was able to purchase a Star Super B from Aim Surplus. I got the handpicked option, and in total I paid Aim around $250. About a week or two later, my local FFL, Lightning Tactical and Training and informed me it had arrived. If you are in the SC Low Country Area, give LTT a call. They're veteran owned and operated and is the only FLL I use. What I recieved was beautiful!

 Fantastic for the price. It runs 9mm, but a longer Spanish version. For this reason, I probably had about 2% failure to eject. Not bad considers it was made in 1974. If you don't know anything about the Star Super B's, I encourage you to read up on them on The Truth About Guns. Great article.

Then...to much dismay... I fucked it up.

In my infinite wisdom, I decided that I wanted to do a super deep clean. I am an idiot. I did not want to devote the time or energy to completely disassembling the handgun, so I decided to strip it down as far as I could, and then submerge it in a bath of rust remover, and then take a nap. When I pulled it out, I almost couldn't believe it. Very soon then did I discover, the metal blue is a type of rust. Rust and Rust Remover do not like each other very much. I was heartbroken!

So I decided to do a little handy work on it. The most work on a firearm I have done up until that point. I followed a few blog posts online and got it apart. Once I had it fully disassembled, I thought "There wasn't a single comprehensive, reliable post about how to take this thing apart." So I didn't do any justice and make a crappy YouTube Video. Partly to help, and partly to help myself remember when I put it back together again.

Now it was time to reblue! I decided to follow this guide I found on Reddit which has you boiling down stump remover to reblue. My first attempt failed. Do not use an electric stove for this. It does not work! The stove will not put out nearly as much BTUs as is required to turn the stump remover powder into a liquid. I was flying home in a few days, and decided to package it all up for the plane trip. Only problem was that if I left the pieces out for more than a few minutes, they would start to rust! So this was my solution for the plane ride.

Nifty right? Maybe soon I'll write another post about my experiences flying with my firearms. Once I got home, I used the before mentioned guide on a gas stove and it worked a lot better! NOTES! 1) This stuff is insanely hot! It will burn you! I still have little specks on my hands from where some splashed on me. 2) Make sure your pot is big enough for all the pieces! My slide blued perfectly. Everything else went in with the receiver, the receiver got stuck and I had to abort. They are not as colored as the rest. 3) Don't put the hot pan in your sink. I'll melt the plastic.

After all was said and done, here she is!

Not as nice as it was before, but better than the mess up!