Thread: Winchester 88 Restoration

Originally Posted by 11mms

Looks like nice work all round. Must be satisfying.
Just a tip on sweating/soldering parts - you can use a pencil to "draw around" where you want solder. give it about a 1/4" border - this in addition to only fluxing where you want solder, will stop it from running away (or rather, sticking, when it does run away)

That's a good tip. I only fluxed the area intended but a cheeky bead ran down the barrel with some flux along for the ride and I got a blob and smear half way around the barrel. Probably exacerbated by the barrel being spotlessly clean and oil free, so perfect for solder adhering!
Wasn't hard to clean up just very hard to see if I got it all until I started the rust blue process.