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Posted: 12/19/2008 4:22:00 PM EDT
| Hello, what do you guys think the best BCG coating is, nothing, TiN, or others? Thanks. |
| Chrome carriers are easy to clean, chrome bolts are a BOZO NO-NO! Do not use chrome bolts, seen too many of them come apart, so far no one hurt, but it will render your weapon useless. Look up "hydrogen embrittlement" I've been trying to tell everyone for years, and I'm getting tired of fixing them. It's why chrome plating is illegal on the front rims of heavy trucks/equipment. |
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Chrome carriers are easy to clean, chrome bolts are a BOZO NO-NO! Do not use chrome bolts, seen too many of them come apart, so far no one hurt, but it will render your weapon useless. Look up "hydrogen embrittlement" I've been trying to tell everyone for years, and I'm getting tired of fixing them. It's why chrome plating is illegal on the front rims of heavy trucks/equipment. interesting. I've never heard of this before. |
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Chrome carriers are easy to clean, chrome bolts are a BOZO NO-NO! Do not use chrome bolts, seen too many of them come apart, so far no one hurt, but it will render your weapon useless. Look up "hydrogen embrittlement" I've been trying to tell everyone for years, and I'm getting tired of fixing them. It's why chrome plating is illegal on the front rims of heavy trucks/equipment. 
. Depends on who did the chrome job |
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Chrome carriers are easy to clean, chrome bolts are a BOZO NO-NO! Do not use chrome bolts, seen too many of them come apart, so far no one hurt, but it will render your weapon useless. Look up "hydrogen embrittlement" I've been trying to tell everyone for years, and I'm getting tired of fixing them. It's why chrome plating is illegal on the front rims of heavy trucks/equipment. Also rumoured to be true for motorcycle frames, springer front ends, bicycle frames, race car suspension pieces etc. But then you have all those chrome front forks....... 
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Chrome carriers are easy to clean, chrome bolts are a BOZO NO-NO! Do not use chrome bolts, seen too many of them come apart, so far no one hurt, but it will render your weapon useless. Look up "hydrogen embrittlement" I've been trying to tell everyone for years, and I'm getting tired of fixing them. It's why chrome plating is illegal on the front rims of heavy trucks/equipment. Also rumoured to be true for motorcycle frames, springer front ends, bicycle frames, race car suspension pieces etc. But then you have all those chrome front forks.......
Thick Chrome and alot of flexing dont go good together like some hard coat paints on fiberglass, if the finish cant flex enough then it will crack but again this all depends on how and who did the chrome job. |
| Just thinking out loud here, but does anyone know if you can Armoloy the BCG. I had my Glock slide done in Armoloy which is an industrial coating and only comes in the silver color. Here is the link to their website. I don't understand the difference between these coatings so this may be the same as ion bonding for all I know. |
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Just thinking out loud here, but does anyone know if you can Armoloy the BCG. I had my Glock slide done in Armoloy which is an industrial coating and only comes in the silver color. Here is the link to their website. I don't understand the difference between these coatings so this may be the same as ion bonding for all I know. Armoloy is hard chrome... had 3 revolvers done in it. Vapor honing leaves it matte that they do before the hard chroming. Had lots of stuff coated in lots of stuff. IonBond and NP3 are the best coatings IMO right now. Another option is nitriding which is a steel material conversion rather than a plating... kind of like anodising aluminum is not a plating but a conversion. Name brands include Tennifer, Melonite, etc. |
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Chrome carriers are easy to clean, chrome bolts are a BOZO NO-NO! Do not use chrome bolts, seen too many of them come apart, so far no one hurt, but it will render your weapon useless. Look up "hydrogen embrittlement" I've been trying to tell everyone for years, and I'm getting tired of fixing them. It's why chrome plating is illegal on the front rims of heavy trucks/equipment. Garbage advice from someone who read a little... a little knowledge is dangerous you know? The standard parkerizing can also cause hydrogen embrittlement and I bet this is what you are going to reccomend over hard chrome, right? A propper heat treat which is done by ANY plater with ANY knowledge or sense resolves this issue completely. Hard chrome is fine... but there are better plating technologies out there. |
| I used to use CLP, then I found SLIP 2000. It is not a carbon based lube and in my experience does not build up carbon nearly as fast as CLP. Just my humble opinion, but IT WORKS FANTASTIC, smooth like butter. ps. I have 2 Young M-16 NM carrier assemblies with over 5k rounds each. No problems, easy cleaning, extra tight tolerances. |
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Quoted:A propper heat treat which is done by ANY plater with ANY knowledge or sense resolves this issue completely.
Hard chrome is fine... but there are better plating technologies out there. Is the heat treatment more effective for parts which are not completely encapsulated (carriers, keys, barrels,,,motorcycle forks) as opposed to completely covered items like bolts, suspension parts, motorcycle forks? In other words; can the hydrogen escape through the chrome? |
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