Substitutes For Inletting Black...

[5hundo]

What other products can be used as a substitute for inletting a stock? I want to do some work on my M77 this week but if I order from Midway, it won't get here in time.

Is there anything I can pick up at Lowes (or something) that works just as well?

Thanks guys!!!

[mrhappy]

a tube of bright red lipstick, lots less messier than inletting black (especially when you scratch your nose or touch your ear!)

[5hundo]

, lots less messier than inletting black (especially when you scratch your nose or touch your ear!)

Nice!!

Thanks for the tip...

[Rust]

Another good replacement is zinc oxide sunblock. Or if you happen to know of a place that caters to machinists "Prussian blue" is sometimes easier to find than inletting black.

[MKfan]

I do my inletting with a homemade kerosene lamp. It consists of a glass baby food jar with a hole poked in its metal lid, through the hole extends a wick made of a piece of an old sock, fill with kerosene. You just light the wick and hold your metal part above the sooty flame, now you have real lamp black on your part.

My first attempt at fitting a now stock on an old shotgun

[tzahoy]

Shoe polish.