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Nitrocarberizing is Melonite. Glock's Tenifer is not the same. Tenifer creates a Cyanide gas byproduct and Is banned by the EPA here in the US.

Tenifer is much harder on the Rockwell scale than Melonite.

It has been said that Glock is Nitrocarberizing the 100% US produced Glocks since they do not have access to the Tenifer process here.

All of the US Glocks get exported.

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Nitrocarberizing is Melonite. Glock's Tenifer is not the same. Tenifer creates a Cyanide gas byproduct and Is banned by the EPA here in the US.

Tenifer is much harder on the Rockwell scale than Melonite.

It has been said that Glock is Nitrocarberizing the 100% US produced Glocks since they do not have access to the Tenifer process here.

All of the US Glocks get exported.

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Googled it:

MMI TruTec (not in GA)

Freedom Gunworks Thread in GA HTF

Bobby @ FGW sends it out to be done, so I don't think you're going to find a shop that you can walk in and watch per se.

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Your post makes no sense. Nitrocarburizing is not Melonite. Melonite is a name for a type of Salt Bath Nitrocarburizing just like Tenifer, so " Melonite is nitrocarburizing" and "Tenifer is nitrocarburizing" would be more accurate. Nitrocarburizing is Tuffride, Tenifer, Melonite (Meli 1), Kolene, Sursulf, Tenoplus, Nitrotec, Nitemper, Deganit, Triniding, Nitroc, and Nitrowear.

There are different trademarked names under each of the 3 types of nitrocarburizing: Salt Bath Ferritic, Gaseous Ferritic, and Plasma-Assisted. As previously stated, Melonite and Tenifer are both Salt Bath Ferritic. Tenifer may be harder on a Rockwell Scale than Melonite, since Melonite is the most simple form of Salt Bath Ferritic, but once again: Both are trademark names for Salt Bath Ferritic Nitrocarburizing. I didn't mean to suggest that the two were the EXACT same and I'm not going to Europe to have my barrel done, so since you know so much about this process, you can answer the question I asked in my OP. Do you know of a place in Metro Atlanta or N GA that I can have my barrel nitrocarburized?

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Don't mean to be  contentious, but all U.S. made Glocks aren't imported.  Many are sold right here in the U.S.  Melonite and Tenifer are just different names for the same process.  Do a Google and find out for yourself.  Melonite and Tenifer have the same hardness and rust-preventative characteristics.

http://firearms.fortreg.com/?p=580

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None of the U.S. made Glocks are imported actually

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Glock no longer does Tenifer for US nor Austrian made guns.  

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Glock no longer does Tenifer for US nor Austrian made guns.  

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Source?

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OF course not!  Brain fart!  Was thinking about the authoritative-sounding but fallacious posts regarding Melonite/Tenifer.

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http://us.glock.com/products/technology

See Bullitt's post. Both factories are using the same process.

 

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I apologize for my authoritative and fallacious sounding posts. Never my intent to mislead anyone, but this is the internet and things can and do get taken out of intended context. I was posting on my phone since I do not have internet at my new residence. After rereading it, it did not sound how I meant for it to be received.

I'm no metallurgist or coating/finish expert. I just know what I have been told by companies utilizing specific processes. What I'm figuring out is that its much the same as Lexan and Plexiglass. One is a Registered name for Plexiglass but the generic is Plexiglass.
Always so difficult.

Well anyway, when I was affiliated with Glock a few years ago, I was told the US Glocks were all intended for export, but that is not to say there are none stateside. I own one. There were limited runs made and sold here. Its just not their intent as they fill a greater need in exporting them. There are also Glocks made in Russia and stamped as such, but yet the US made Glocks are being exported to fill Russian orders. Go figure. Glock has their strategic reasons as to why they do what they do. I learned a while back, the Austrians know everything, how dare we question their Authoritah.

When Glock started building complete guns here in the US, the US was the pilot program for their new salt bath nitrided finish in place of their long known and respected "Tenifer" process. As Mayo has suggested, they may have gone mainstream with their new process.
I've been somewhat removed from their loop in the prior 18 months.

Once again, I apologize for my tone and/or post content if it was conceived wrong. I don't know everything, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express a few nights ago.

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Well, once again, I'm disappointed in this site. I posted asking for information  on where to get this done and a debate started on what the process was and US Glocks being made for export.

I understand how things on the web can be taken out of context, but a lot of what you said was just inaccurate. I don't claim to be an expert, but it sounded like you knew a great deal about the topic and you didn't even tell me where I could get this done. Now you discussing Glocks being made in Russia?

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The nitrating process referred to in Mayo's link doesn't mean that the slides and barrels aren't Tenifered or Melonited.  Tenifer and Melonite are trade names for a nitrating process.

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Yep, I said this before. Somebody just doesn't get it. I'm done with this thread. Thanks for all those that helped me.

Quoted: Now you discussing Glocks being made in Russia?