Colt Government 1911 A1, Gun Restoration

Patreon: Instagram: Facebook: First things first: iam not a fan of real guns, but restoring a blank gun was a really interesting project for me. I got this gun from a friend, it was laying in his barn for several years. He told me that its an Colt blank gun, made in germany. I started the restoration of this gun by making it work again with WD40. The gun slide was stuck. After getting all mechanical parts moving again, I was able to disassemble the gun. All of the parts were looking good, but pitting did its job on this zinc diecast gun. After sandblasting the slide, i did some sanding work on it. Reblasting with glassbeads was the perfection preparation for the cold bluing bath. I used the Tifoo cold bluing bath, since its made for zinc. The cold bluing turned out great, so i moved on with the other zinc parts. All of the small steel parts were cleaned in a ultra sonic cleaner with citric acid cl