The all too common complaint-870 Express and rust

[Romulus]

Everybody has heard this: an 870 Express will rust just by looking at it. This is actually untrue in the vast preponderance of cases. I had a brand new Express (still have the old girl, actually, though no longer brand new) and I also agonized over this perennial efflorescence of rust...except it wasn't rust, nor is it in most reported cases. I would clean and wipe, yet the same nasty reddish-brown stuff would leave its traces on the patches and rags. Nicely oiled? Yes, but at next wipe-down, here's the red stuff, again and again. What metallurgical mess-up hath Remington wrought upon us? The answer is none. What is driving folks crazy at the appearance of this brick-colored residue isn't rust, at least not the the rust of corrosion that is the enemy of every steelen-gun owner on the planet. What you are seeing is red smut, a byproduct of bluing baths at less than optimal temperatures. Brownells has a paper on bluing which actually touches on this. Is Remington to blame? Of course they are, their bluing tanks should flawlessly be temperature-set. The reddish tone of their bluing on barrels, especially at the mag tube lug, reinforces the above described phenomenon. Nonetheless, my good fellow Remingtonians, stop fretting about this "rust". This smut will eventually stop rearing it's unpleasant head, and will do no harm until that day. It'll just require a few more Zen hours at the cleaning bench over the course of ownership of the 870 Express. Meanwhile, just hit the range and wipe down that red smut, you shall win that battle eventually.
Rom

All things said above are strictly personal opinion and in no way offered with scientific certitude.

[Romulus]

Jeasus I need to work on my English composition skills but at least I got my personal point across

[Scorpion8]

Jeasus I need to work on my English composition skills but at least I got my personal point across

Ha! Yea, but good writeup nonetheless. I haven't noticed that red stuff on mine, at all. Maybe their processes did change.

[fernando gonzalo]

HACE POCO TIEMPO ME REGALARON UNA 870 EXPRES MAGNUM CALI 12 GA, PARQUERIZADA, SIN HABER SIDO USADA PRACTICAMENTE YA QUE SU PRIMER Y UNICO DEÑO SOLO DISPARO DOS CAJAS DE CARTUCHOS. YO MUY FELIZ YA QUE ERA LA PRIMERA ESCOPETA CON ESE SISTEMA QUE LLEGO A MIS MANOS. A TRAVES DE SU NUMERO DESCUBRI QUE FUE FARICADA EN EL AÑO 1993, LO QUE COICIDE CON LA FACTURA DE COMPRA DE MI AMIGO 04-94. EL DESPUES DE TIRAR SUS DOS CAJAS LA GUARDO SIN LIMPIEZA ALGUNA EN SU CAJA DE CARTON Y SOLO LA SACO CUANDO ,HACE NO MAS DE DOS MESES, PARA REGALARMELA. CUANDO VI EL ESTADO,PENSE QUE ERA NUEVA YA QUE EL PARQUERIZADO ESTABA IMPECABLE, SU CULATA DE MADERA DURA IMPECABLE Y EL INTERIOR DEL CAÑON, DESPUES DE PASARLE UN ALGODON CON TIENER, QUE ES UN DISOLVENTE PARA PINTURAS, QUEDO COMO UN ESPEJO. NADA QUE DECIR DEL PARQUERIZADO, AL CONTRARIO, MUY CONTENTO

[Scorpion8]

I wonder what other names we have for Tiener paint solvent?

[gWebber]

Jeasus I need to work on my English composition skills but at least I got my personal point across

Breaking it up into paragraphs so there’s white space for the eye to rest and follow text better would help too

[Romulus]

Jeasus, you are right