CZ-75B trigger finish? (Polycoat question, also.)

[Lone Star]

On the polycoated CZ-75B, the trigger is silver. Does anyone know if it's a semi-polished satin nickel finish?

I doubt it's stainless steel.

Does it need oil, or should I just wipe it off with a dry cleaning patch after handling the gun?

For the matter of that, should the gun be put away oiled, overall, or does the poly finish need that? I'm concerned that Break-Free or Rem Oil might even eventually get under the polycoat and loosen it, causing flaking.
(But, goodness knows, the gun was oily enough when they shipped it!)

Hmmm: while I'm thinking of it, do you guys with the satin nickle finished CZ's oil them on the outside? I may eventually get one of those, although I want to wait a bit and see the forthcoming (finally!) stainless CZ's.

Thanks,

Lone Star

 

[JohnBT]

I don't know about the trigger. My 75-B Military has been oiled inside and out for the past 4 years. A spray can of Sheath does a good job after the spray cleaner. It's probably overkill, but it's humid here. Today has been beautiful, but I just checked for the heck of it and the humidity is 90%. Well, it seems dry after that 15 inches of rain we got in 6 hours the other day.

John

 

[nonquixote]

The polycoat finish is very durable and shouldn't be harmed by oil (some solvents can dull it however) but oiling the outside of the pistol is probably unnecessary. The light coating left after wipedown should be enough to protect any parts at risk of corrosion. When I detail strip and clean my pistols I coat all the diassembled parts with a CLP product and wipe it down after assembly as when new.

The trigger is not nickel finished, it's more silver/white rather than the yellow/silver of the satin nickel. What exactly it is I don't know, but it's the same color as the barrel steel.

I've heard that the CZs are shipped coated in oil because the last thing they do before packing them is to cycle them repeatedly in an oil bath to smooth the action a bit.

With the satin nickel finish, all you really have to be careful about is copper solvents such as in some bore cleaners. It can get under the nickel and dissolve the copper subsurface that the nickel bonds to, causing blistering and flaking.

Nonq