Not sure if this was covered before...

Does cerakote add any weight comparing to just hard coat anodized surface?

It's only .001" thick.  Any weight added is negligible.  You'd need a very high end scale to be able to weigh the difference.

Just drink an extra cup of coffee every day, lifting the cup to your mouth should build enough strength to overcome the weigth of a ceracote finish.

You serious, Clark?

Anodizing does not need to be removed to Cerakote. You need to have a proper adhesion profile on the base surface, but that can be achieved by blasting at a low enough pressure to not cut through the anodizing on the part.

Before you leave the house, take 1 round out of your magazine.  That'll more than offset the added weight of the cerakote on your rifle.

Not to single you out, because I see comments like that a lot and the logic of it pains me...  The idea at any weight class is to maintain functionality.  Carrying less ammo to offset weight added elsewhere, especially completely non-functional weight, makes no sense at any level.

Regardless of how insignificant the weight of Cerakote might be, it just isn't helpful feedback.  It's not particularly funny, either.

Yes it is, we do it to each other around here all the time.

See you have not been around to long

Lighten up Francis.

I get humor...when it's funny.  Repeating the same thing ad nauseam doesn't qualify.  Especially when there's no indication it was a joke.

Well what you or I find funny or not funny has no bearing on what another may or may not find funny.

The question was actually silly for anyone that knows anything about paints and coatings, cerakote for all intensive purposes in the amount used to coat receivers weighs virtually nothing to the gun.

Now if we are talking about painting a 747 then it makes a big difference, I remember a time back in the 80's that airlines stopped painting their airplanes because the weight of the type of paint they had to use for the environment added enough weight that the planes increase fuel consumption between 3-7% which added a hell of a lot of costs to flights.

My partner and I actually did some weight testing when we started manufacturing suppressor tubes on anodizing the tubes, we have also coated tubes and checked before and after weights, which didn't register on anything except the most sensitive scale systems and it was like 1/1000th of an ounce.  I suspect a cerakote on an upper and lower adds even less that 1/1000th of an ounce to the weight of those parts.

Cerakote is a thin film coating technology.

Those are good additions.  I was going to mention cars, where the paint can be 15-20 lbs.  Scaling that down to gun size, and perhaps not doing the mental gymnastics to account for different depths of coating, it's not hard to imagine someone thinking there would be an ounce or two there.

Now were crying about weight of a coating omg when did arfcom let in sissy boys

There is those of us here with rifles in the ar-15 and ar-10 variety that weigh  upwards of 12 pounds

Wow, you win the "worst interpretation of the conversation" award of the day.  Well done.

Because asking how much something weighs is exactly the same as crying about the weight.

lol

It don’t weigh much.

Well, if we really want to get pedantic about the topic - the weight will vary, depending on where you're carrying the Cerakoted rifle. Up in the Andes or Himalayans, farther from the center of the earth, the rifle, and hence the coating, will weigh less. Down in Death valley, incrementally more.

However, the mass increase will remain the same, wherever you may travel with the firearm.

Does this qualify as funny? Or just picky - I'm guessing the latter!

The logic of this answer is on par with the logic of the question.