Well, I was board just looking for any thing to do, so I start looking in the back at all my rubbish , an there it was , a box of bits too far gone to even think about doing up, but well beggers can't be choosers plus the fact is i will only get a hour or so each day to do it.
Where do we start I ask myself, case or the movement, the fact that the mainspring and the mainspring slip piece was missing was another reason it had been thrown in a drawer by someone.
The case was covered in oil at some time and turned into a hard green crust and the movement was covered in verdigris, the blueing on the steel case had all but been wiped off, so it was really scrapping the botton of the barrel with this one.
There are various sorts of steel blueing agents out there so I'm sure I've got something that would do, and no I'm not going down the road of heating the case and re blueing it, it's just not worth it .