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Posted: 10/2/2001 6:40:05 AM EDT

hows bear coat?
how about bake on powder finishes?

anything else?

Posted: 10/2/2001 7:27:18 AM EDT

[#1]

Hard chrome

Posted: 10/2/2001 7:40:30 AM EDT

[#2]

Titanium Nitride(sp?)
Also, ROBAR's Np3 finish is very hard to beat.

I also like plain old Electroless Nickel and Black T very much. One of my Sigs has ROBARs Roguard finish in it, and it is really good as well.

Tyler

Posted: 10/2/2001 7:58:08 AM EDT

[#3]

I had a rifle done by Mac's at [url]www.shootiniron.com[/url]

It is an Egyptian Maadi AK, and they have notoriously bad finishes, a thick, uneven black paint. He stripped it down to nothing, then put a really nice flat black finish on with excellent attention to detail.

I am very pleased with it. I actually just sent him an e-mail this morning about doing two more jobs.

Posted: 10/2/2001 8:05:55 AM EDT

[#4]

QPQ - Quench Polish Quench, a grey finish, I have never seen it personally, but I believe it is available for the Walther P99. I don't know of any company offering it as a re-finishing option though.

Posted: 10/2/2001 8:39:42 PM EDT

[#5]

Tennifer.

"Glock's metal parts are finished with a Tennifer coating. Tennifer gives these parts a hardness of 69 RC. This is extremely hard when compared to the hardness of an industrial diamond at 70 RC."

Posted: 10/2/2001 8:42:47 PM EDT

[#6]

Walter Birdsong's Black-T is better. They take the gun completely apart and treat everything, including springs, except the inside of the barrel. No website. 601-939-7448. He does a lot of work for the FBI, SEALS, etc. Don't worry, he is the most pro-gun person you will ever meet.

I posted this on the other thread you started on the same subject.

Posted: 10/2/2001 9:34:53 PM EDT

[#7]

Robar's finishes are excellect. I have a roguard finish pistol that I abuse a lot at the range.

Posted: 10/2/2001 9:42:06 PM EDT

[#8]

Nail polish!

Posted: 10/2/2001 11:12:57 PM EDT

[#9]

[url]www.robarguns.com[/url]

Posted: 10/3/2001 4:32:51 AM EDT

[#10]

[url]http://www.mahovskysmetalife.com/[/url]

Here is my METALIFE'ed Kimber
[img]http://wsphotofews.excite.com/001/cK/fV/cX/Az91378.jpg[/img]

Posted: 10/3/2001 4:53:18 AM EDT

[#11]

I agree about Tennifer. It's one of the many reasons I love GLOCKs. I don't think (have heard it many times, but no definative source) that the EPA will not allow the treatment to be done in the US.

Posted: 10/3/2001 6:42:10 AM EDT

[#12]

"Glock's metal parts are finished with a Tennifer coating. Tennifer gives these parts a hardness of 69 RC. This is extremely hard when compared to the hardness of an industrial diamond at 70 RC."

thats all well and good, and maybe im a little rusting in my metallurgy (sp?) but wouldnt that make them brittle and subject to fracture? diamonds are very hard but will shear apart.

Posted: 10/3/2001 6:56:49 AM EDT

[#13]

I'm no metal specialist either but I have never seen a fractured Glock before. I have seen the results of a KaBoom & there is not much left afterwards but that is possible on other firearms as well. I suppose anything is possible but I've seen some Glocks put through hell & still look & work ok.

I'm going by what a gunsmith & I had been discussing regarding different finishes. His goal was to get a 1911 finished in Tennifer but he has yet to achieve that.

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