. I was a bit nervous because I didn't want to loose the few, and I mean few, stamps that were still visable.I started off with the flash hider , booster cone and the barrel sleeve. They came up great, well as good as a pitted rusty thing will. Time to give the rest ago.
The rest went in and came out all nice and mat silver. The big plus was that I found more WaA and makers marks under the crud. I now have a WaA625, what appears to be SWJ and 123 on the camming piece. The recoup uncovered a WaA623 on it. The top cover hinge there was WaA11. All the cover internals are marked bpr. The rails are both marked cof as is the latch for the buffer. The grip is marked with the square in a circle logo of Rheinmetall and a WaA. The charging handle is post war and the spring in it is broken. I will get replaced with a working one soon. The rear AA sight goes up now but the spring in it is no more so it flops about a bit. The buffer spring had all the crud in it cleaned out and it now buffers. We worked it free by compressing it in a vice and letting the rust all drop out.
I must point out that it has been deactivated. The bolt and barrel have been deactivated in the usual way. Although I think the elements have done quite a good deactivation.
What has surprised me is how easy it is to cock and dry fire now. It is not smooth at all but you can cock it much easier than before. Some oil may help but I doubt it on metal this pitted.
The order of my pics has gone wrong again
. Sorry I will check with Dale and see what it was. He uses it for cleaning parts on the classic motorcycles he restores. Its not an aggresive media as he uses it to clean aluminium bike parts.