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MOTHERS GUN BLUE OIL?
Q. DO YOU HAVE OR CAN YOU PLEASE LOCATE "MOTHERS" GUN BLUING OIL?
KEVIN L [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]JEWELER - MOSCOW, IDAHO, UNITED STATES
2005
Q. Hi I would like to buy some Mothers gun bluing but I cannot find it anywhere; can you help me?
Cory A [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]- Camas, Washington
2006
A. Hi Kevin, hi Cory. Is there a reason you specifically need to find "Mothers" brand gun bluing when there are many other brands readily available? What is so special about this one particular brand? Thanks!
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
Q. I have a friend who tells me Mothers brand gun bluing is the best on the market. I have not been able to find it or even anyone who is willing to admit it ever existed. Please help me with this search or at least let me know if I'm chasing my tail. Thanks, Jim.
James S [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]- Wheeler, Wisconsin
2006
A. You're chasing your tail.
Numerous Mothers products show up immediately in any search, and numerous gun blues show up immediately in any search. But the combination, Mother's gun blue, simply doesn't.
Ebay, which has memorabilia of everything imaginable has none regarding Mothers gun bluing. Ask your friend to show you the bottle, or tell him if he was a real friend he'd give you some for Christmas :-)
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
Q. Where to buy Mothers gun blue.
ROBERT S [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]
HOMEOWNER - Mesa, Arizona
2007
A. Hi, Robert. Please settle for another gun blue or tell us why you feel you need this apparently mythical product :-)
Thanks!
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
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This "Mothers gun bluing" everyone is asking about is used (or so I've read) by Meth cooks. Used to make "ice", not really meth. This is from a website for cooks; or should I say basement chemists: marlin man Wednesday, 1/11/12, 7:16 PM 
"It's made by mixing 1) [deleted by editor] 2) [deleted by editor] and 3) gun bluing ... in equal parts. Then the mixture is buried in a sealed fish tank or cooler. Some recipes call to suspend strings from the top of the container into the mixture (hence the occasional name "string dope"). Then wait a month. By then crystals will have formed; the crystals are [meth] ice. However, this is not really meth; it's alive. It is a fungus that keeps growing inside your body long after you ingest it (by shooting or smoking). That's why addicts scratch and get open sores; it's the ice forming new crystals in a person's skin. These are called "meth bites." (locally, "ice bites" - assonance is important to addicts, too)" - Reading, Pennsylvania, USA January 27, 2012 Hi, David. This is a kid-friendly site so we deleted the meth recipe. " 'ice bites' -- assonance is important to addicts, too" -- Hmm, is assonance important to everyone including meth addicts? Or do meth addicts have a special craving for assonance? :-) Regards, Ted Mooney, P.E. Striving to live Aloha finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey I don't know if they prefer it or need it! I was just reading about it! lol - reading, Pennsylvania usa Yes, we learn every day. Thanks. I now realize why one of my favorite song lines has such a great lilt to it: "Like the pine trees lining the winding road" Regards, Ted Mooney, P.E. Striving to live Aloha finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey Not to take away from your assessment because if what you say is true then by all means people should listen. But from my understanding the reason for burying the cooler or fish tank in the ground is to keep the product at 65 °F or less for the 30 days. The human body has an internal temperature of 98.6 °F, so therefore the fungus of which you speak cannot survive at those temperatures. Just keeping it real - South Carolina December 5, 2024 Ed. note: "Fungus infection" is apparently a meth-driven psychosis rather than an actual fungus infection per "Neurologic manifestations of chronic methamphetamine abuse" |
Q. Hi. I've been trying to find this product; I've been reading all this crap about drugs on this product. My father and I have used this product on our guns since I was 5 years old he was army (green beret special forces) 2 tours in Nam purple heart etc ... raised me since I was 3. We collected various guns growing up restoring them, etc ... I like to use what I've always used. Dad passed away 5 and a half years ago and his sister, whom I've seen a total of maybe 5 times ever, got to his house in GA before we could get there from MO and locked everything up, loaded it up, and hauled off everything I knew as a child growing up -- my whole family's memorabilia of sentimental memories collected throughout 25 plus years of my life; it's more a memory trigger of my favorite past times.
I recently started collecting and restoring guns again since he passed away and I would like to use this product because it's what I've grown up using and it carries very sentimental memories. If this is no longer a possibility then I hang my head in hate and despair to the dumb f*#ks who caused this to be just a fading memory.
- Miller Missouri U.S.A.
October 12, 2017
Hi William. Very sorry for the loss of your father and the traumatic theft of your family memories.
Gun bluing certainly persists and there are many brands. "Mothers", if your memory is correct, has apparently been unavailable for a very long time. The phrase was deemed 'abandoned' by the trademark office in 2011, and I can find no reference to it at all on google, nor is there any memorabilia regarding it on ebay.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
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Q. for David Casse: My sister has been on meth for a few years, she smokes it, her face has never broken out. She went out of town and did some and for 3 months has huge sores. She does not pick and has been treated for everything by a doctor. Is there a way to get rid of meth Bites from dope made with bluing? Joy A [name deleted due to age of posting]- Lockhart South Carolina USA March 26, 2018 A. Have you tried hydrocortisone, or permethrin cream ⇦ this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] ? And coconut oil ⇦ this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] is a natural antibiotic she could switch up with cream and oil. Plus consume a tablespoon of the oil and stop the ammonia intake with that nasty string dope, it's downright poison. Gl skay clifton- Ripley Mississippi August 23, 2020 |
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