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I've seen some good tutorials for shiny metal (gold) and for beaten metal, but I can't remember any for worn or grungy metal. If you haven't been able to find a tutorial that may be because it is so easy to take photos of real objects and use them as textures. There are also zillions of downloadable textures ready-made.  Is there a reason you must do it from scratch? 
You can download a 30 day trial version of Filterforge which creates configurable textures like one currently featured on the Filterforge home page which looks like worn metal to me:

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