Star Model 30-M

[Big Shrek]

I mentioned having, in the past, a Star Model 30-M. And having a pair of mags somewhere around the house...
well, today my loving wife finally mentioned finding those mags...still inside the old WW2 mag pouch I kept them in.

So, I'm like HECK YEAH!! WHERE ARE THEY?? And she brings them out...
first thing I notice is a couple small rust stains on the mag pouch...ouch.
I take 'em out and find there is spotty rust on the right side of each mag, along the two right edges.

So...I whip out the Steel Wool & Hoppe's #9 and start scrubbing. Much of it came off,
but there's still rough stuff left to go.

Short of breaking out the power tools, what can I do to get rid of the rest of the rust??
Or do I just keep scrubbing with 00 steel wool until it's all gone??
I've not encountered this much rust on a gun part before...it was pretty thick on those spots.

I'm usually a bit more bright about remembering how to deal with deep rust, but for some reason (63hr workweeks)
my brain is all melty this month.

Sad part is, I know where another Star Model 30-M is...
and the temptation to go buy it is BAD...lol

[johnlives4christ]

i'd wire brush'em, but ifn i was dead set on doing it by hand i'd use wd40 and not hoppes thought because wd40 is a penetrating oil.

sorry to hear about your misfortune

[oscarmayer]

i'm sure there are better products out now but being a old fart i've haven't kept up. but i do recall using some naval jelly that worked great but if i recall right it removed some of the blueing ???? which i guess stands to reason , but on a magazine that wouldn't matter that much, and if it did magazines are easy to reblue at home . a nice weekend project......

[Mosin_Nagant_Fan]

Well, if you wind up defeated, I found Star's website with some info about magazines and compatibility.

http://www.star-firearms.com/info/mags.shtml

Models 28, 30 & 31
The 28/30/31 series can use Smith & Wesson 59xx (eg: 5906, 5946) magazines with no modification. Note that this only applies to magazines of exact factory configuration. Many aftermarket magazines are somewhat squarer on the front, so will not fit in the Star pistols. If you have a .40 caliber M31P, Smith & Wesson .40 caliber magazines for the 40xx series of pistols will work the same way. The Smith mags do have a hump at the front to prevent their insertion in their 9 mm pistols, but this could presumably be pushed in or filed away (I have never done so myself). For either one, the floorplate mates with the bottom of the grip in a way that some find slightly ugly, but it does work just fine. Neither of these work if you left the magazine safety in. In that case, the mag sorta-kinda shoves the mag safety up, and will cause trigger pull inconsistency and trouble. I would remove it, but you could probably cut and punch out the little mag safety shelf into the magazine body also, if you wanted to.

http://www.gunclips.net/stmo30m9mm10.html

[johnlives4christ]

a local gunsmith might would include the mags in with a batch of blueing for cheap if you didnt want to do it yourself

[Jim K]

Boil them in water to kill the rust, put on some oil, and forget about it as long as they work.

Jim

[Mosin_Nagant_Fan]

Originally Posted by Jim K

Boil them in water to kill the rust, put on some oil, and forget about it as long as they work.

Jim

Wah? Never heard of that. I mean, rust isn't like a virus or bacteria.

[Jim K]

No, rust is not a bacterium, but sometimes it can almost act that way. It is caused by some corrosive material - salt, acid, whatever. Boiling the part (I forgot to say in distilled water) dissolves whatever is causing the corrosion and stops the progress of the rust. Too often just putting oil on the rust will affect only the surface and allow the rust to continue beneath the oil. (The word "kill" is used figuratively; rust is not alive.)

Jim

[Bill DeShivs]

You can use a copper penny to scrape off the heavy rust. Naval Jelly, and all the commercial rust removers will remove bluing, and will damage springs and some feed lips.