Rob62
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I recently had a Remington 510, .22RF rifle parkerized by a gunsmith. This was my first experience with having any parkerization done.
Should the metal have been treated in any way before being dropped in the solution tanks? I believed that the parkerization process was similar to hot bluing, with the metal being either sand blasted or buffed out on a buffing wheel to remove any metal imperfections such as rust. There was no metal work done to my gun as far as I can tell. I say this because there was a large area on the right front of the barrel that had surface rust.
When I got the gun I started sanding and polishing this area down to remove the rust spots. So this area was a lot different in texture than the rest of the gun. Plus there were still some very minor hardly visible pits in the metal in this area as well. The reason I wanted the gun parkerized was to blend in this area with the rest of the gun. Plus have the metal re-finished.
When I got the gun back from the ‘smith the area that had the rust and minor pits on it was clearly not blended in with the rest of the metal. While the surface was parkerized the metal testure under the finish looked a lot smoother, due to my sanding and polishing. The very small pits/metal imperfections were still visible. So clearly it seems there was no attempt made to polish out this area and blend it in with the rest of the guns metal.
If the standard and practice of a professional gunsmith for a parkerization job is to simply take apart the gun and put it in the tanks then I guess I screwed up by not finding out what would be done. But if on the other hand the norm should have been to polish or bead blast the metal then I am a little upset.
The reason I'm not asking this question of the gunsmith that did the work is because there were some other issues we had where he will not get any further work from me. (He promised to get the job done in 6-8 weeks and it took him over 12 weeks to eventually get the gun back to me. I also don't like his communication skills - doesn't respond to e mails, doesn't quote prices on requested projects, this was prior to getting the 510 back.)
TIA,
Rob
Should the metal have been treated in any way before being dropped in the solution tanks? I believed that the parkerization process was similar to hot bluing, with the metal being either sand blasted or buffed out on a buffing wheel to remove any metal imperfections such as rust. There was no metal work done to my gun as far as I can tell. I say this because there was a large area on the right front of the barrel that had surface rust.
When I got the gun I started sanding and polishing this area down to remove the rust spots. So this area was a lot different in texture than the rest of the gun. Plus there were still some very minor hardly visible pits in the metal in this area as well. The reason I wanted the gun parkerized was to blend in this area with the rest of the gun. Plus have the metal re-finished.
When I got the gun back from the ‘smith the area that had the rust and minor pits on it was clearly not blended in with the rest of the metal. While the surface was parkerized the metal testure under the finish looked a lot smoother, due to my sanding and polishing. The very small pits/metal imperfections were still visible. So clearly it seems there was no attempt made to polish out this area and blend it in with the rest of the guns metal.
If the standard and practice of a professional gunsmith for a parkerization job is to simply take apart the gun and put it in the tanks then I guess I screwed up by not finding out what would be done. But if on the other hand the norm should have been to polish or bead blast the metal then I am a little upset.
The reason I'm not asking this question of the gunsmith that did the work is because there were some other issues we had where he will not get any further work from me. (He promised to get the job done in 6-8 weeks and it took him over 12 weeks to eventually get the gun back to me. I also don't like his communication skills - doesn't respond to e mails, doesn't quote prices on requested projects, this was prior to getting the 510 back.)
TIA,
Rob