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Posted: 5/13/2008 1:40:27 PM EDT
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Alright I tried the home brew parkerizing. I am not a chemist and it looks like crap. Can anyone suggest someone to parkerize the rifle and three mags? Approximate pricing? thanks guys |
| The reason I got into the parking is that I could find nobody to do it for me here. I did get a blast cabinet, I had the compressor. If you can halfway park the stuff, you could try blueing over it which makes it fairly black, or the park could be a perfect base for gunkote (sp?). |
I had Mario at Piece of History Firearms parkerize, engrave with selector markings and detents, and open my magwell. Turnaround time was around a week. |
That's why I didn't go with Brownnells parkerizing chemicals, my brain started hurting from reading their instructions. I just hosted an AK building party at my place this weekend and I also tried parking for the first time. I ordered my parking kit from kalvans.com, never heard of them before. But there parking solution worked great, all parts came out jet black. We degreased parts prior to blasting, degreased them again, put them in plain water and brought them up to temp and put them directly into the parking solution. Pulled them out and sprayed them down with oil from the kit, wiped them down and used a airblower on them, then assembled. I will say, the parkerizing really has a nasty smell. Parkerizing is a fairly straight foward process. Don |
Or 200 gallons of park solution for $20, which is the cost of my chemicals. It's probably the same brain fart that makes me build an AK when one can be bought for about the same price, and it doesn't require all the hammering.
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I think one of the "real" answers to the hypthetical question as to "why" is this: Because it's fun. Maybe another is because: We can. Yes? No? Well, it works for me. P |
good answers! |
| I really wanted my rifle done, nobody in town parkerizes, and I didn't want to wait 1-2 weeks for shipping. It's not just a question of money, it's knowing you can do it and actually doing it in a pinch. Sure enough, it was quick, easy and cheap. Plus all my tools are parked. Why do people want to criticize that in the BIY forum? |
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When I first learned to park gun parts and such, I bought a kit. Worked good, and one of my thoughts was, Wow, this might be good for motorcycle parts. Spray with GunKote, lots of color choice, tough finish. Hmm. Fast forward several years: I am taking delivery today of a 1976 Harley Davidson FXE, PROJECT bike. Picked it up at a impound auction, el-cheapo. It's a super rat bike. Mucho neglected, dropped repeatedly on both sides, but complete, weathered and worn. Will be stripped to the frame, rebuilt from ground up. I bet many small parts /brackets will wind up custom made in my shop, home brew parkerised (because I can, and it's fun) and then KG Gunkoted. Home brew parking is a useful skill is all i'm saying, (plus I'm Uber happy 'bout the score on the bike!!! and wanted to crow about it!! P 
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also keeps the lungs from rusting if ya park em.makes em like new again.great if your a smoker.I do all my parking from the homebrew method.it's simple and the ingredients are readily available and cheap to free.camp stove,propane,candy themometer,manganese dioxide/zinc dioxide,quick clean etch stripper,steel wool or iron shavings and water.manganese dioxide from a battery,zinc from a few pennies with the copper rubbed/ground off.real nice color when it has been used/aged.. |
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