[e-luder]

Originally Posted by e-luder View Post
Just to be clear...
"polishing" and "filing/sanding" have different conotations.

Although they undergo the same process essentially, they effects that you are trying to achieve is different.

Polishing simply means (to me) smoothening out parts.
Sanding/filing means REMOVING material to fit things into place.

I only want to polish mirror like, all metal parts to reduce friction, not removing material

I was confused by what you were trying to achieve based on your wordings on the previous post but now I know.

You don't really need to polish the inner side of the barrel. Mainly because you have an inner barrel for the barrel to ride along.

I misinterpreted the MikeMcnair post

I don't even think there are many people (if any at all) would polish their real steel barrel anyways. It will screw up the rifling inside.

To me you shouldn't be using a dremmel at all.
Other than using it for how MikeNair said to use it, it will not do you any favors.

Dremel used with soft wheel and "red Compund" only for polishing

Good Old needle files and your own sweat and arthritis provoking hard work will get you a more precise result.

A dremmel is ruthless on pot-metal. Plus it's very hard to control...

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