Bad Park Job OOOR BEST CAMO JOB EVAR?!!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Bad Park Job OOOR BEST CAMO JOB EVAR?!!

Posted: 11/19/2008 3:16:57 PM EDT

Sooo, over the last few days I have been trying my hand at some parkerizing. Needless to say, it went EXCELLENTLY. This is with my home brew parkerizing. Phosphoric acid, distilled water, manganese dioxide.

Yeah...so lets see which excuses you guys buy:

A. High nickel content int he nodakspud metal
B. I did it on purpose
C. I have no idea what I'm doing

Posted: 11/19/2008 3:46:19 PM EDT

[#1]

BEST CAMO JOB EVAR! Shoot it with some KG guncoat and it'll look all even.

Polytech

Posted: 11/19/2008 4:04:56 PM EDT

[#2]

Dude just slide it doen your driveway for that well worn arfcom camo look...

Posted: 11/19/2008 5:33:28 PM EDT

[#3]

Ugh! It's horrible! You're gonna have to get rid of it! I'll be happy to "dispose" of it for you!

Posted: 11/19/2008 5:39:36 PM EDT

[#4]

Say it with Krylon?

Posted: 11/19/2008 5:39:36 PM EDT

[#5]

"Really, how hard could it be?"

The words of a lawyer starting a gunsmithing business a few years ago....

Posted: 11/19/2008 6:04:20 PM EDT

[#6]

Top: regular
Bottom: dark

I sorta cheated though. I did them with Duke's help at his shop. First everything was media blasted to bare metal, then dunked in boiling water to warm the metal and further defunkify the metal, then for a nice warm soak in the Brownells Zinc Park solution, the black one first being dipped in a "pre-dip blackener" solution. Finally a nice bath in a tub-o-WD40 to get some oil into the metal and take the water off.

Posted: 11/19/2008 6:20:57 PM EDT

[#7]

Yeah and the black phosphate STILL never comes out the way I want it to. Norrells FTW!

Posted: 11/19/2008 6:22:06 PM EDT

[#8]

Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater

Fuck it, I'm foing with Rustoleum.

Posted: 11/19/2008 6:23:41 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater

Fuck it, I'm foing with Rustoleum.

You need "stoving".

Posted: 11/19/2008 6:50:13 PM EDT

[#10]

BaNo's right, you need heat. And some real parkerizing solution. Stop being totally ghetto and buy a jug of the real stuff.

A pint of this.

Posted: 11/19/2008 10:42:23 PM EDT

[#11]

Or save yourself an arse-ton (this is a ligitemate measurement) of trouble and use KG Gunkote's system. Norel's seems like top notch stuff too, but the KPhos treatment you use before you coat and bake is what gets that 500 hours of salt spray resistance the Navy so loves, or so KG says. I've never had any of my firearms even think about rusting after KPhosing and coating them. Even my Springfield, wich has gotten a battlescar or two.

KG Says they developed it for the Navy many moons ago and it passed their tests and standards. I'd think it would hold up better than Parkerizing and you can mix colors to get that exact look you're looking for.

Posted: 11/20/2008 2:08:19 AM EDT

[#12]

I recently reparked a fsb using manganese out of a d battery, a steel wool pad, distilled water, and some phos based concrete etcher. It came out a dark charcoal gray (almost black) which is what I wanted. Soaked it in used motor oil for a day. I did notice the texture is a little rougher than what it was orginally, but it looks pretty dang good.

Posted: 11/21/2008 7:35:22 AM EDT

[#13]

Don't forget to soak it in grease for the actual protection. Vaseline works great, slather it up and bake it at 200 F for a few hours.

Posted: 11/21/2008 8:45:08 AM EDT

[#14]

Vaseline works great, slather it up and .....

thats what she said!

SORRY! I HAD TO! +1 on KG

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Bad Park Job OOOR BEST CAMO JOB EVAR?!!

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