[John Rogers]

I am talking about two products namely Kasenite or Cherry Red. Both are a powder that are used to cover small areas of non stainless steel once the piece is heated cherry red in temperature, cover the metal, re-heat to cherry red then quench (oil or water). My gunsmith mentor uses Kasenite mostly but it is not normally sold in small quantities to harden the tumbler in a percussion rifle lock after you do some stoning to make the trigger break clean. Also used in percussion trigger parts after stoning to lower trigger pull.

I recently did the trigger work as he told me how and dropped a single set trigger from 4# pull once it was set down to 1.5 OZ which is much nicer for target shooting. I plan to wait a few days until our heat wave dies away some since working with 1600 degree steel when it is 90+ degrees is not pleasant.

So has anyone here done it? I watched him use it several years ago and the YouTube videos and have the heavy leather gloves and a leather shop apron so......?