SIG sauer phosphated parts / custom features question

[1LT]

Hi, im really bnew here.

Im planning to finally replace my Smith m459 with perhaps a sig. Operating in my country we are faced with extremely rainy (and sweaty) conditions. In addition to this my particular area is also not exempt of coastlines and salt marshes. I am very interested with the p226 combat's phosphated innards feature, but I also think a P229 elite dark TB is more ideal for my requirements because this stone it hits 3 birds (tactical work, concealed carry and ipsc production); and i think black is beautiful.

Anyone knows if the elite dark also has this feature w/ internal parts? or is it standard on all 226/229s? or is it limited to the "combat" models? or maybe if they offer it as a custom option for other models?

Also, does anyone know if it is possible to (or has actually tried) to order a customized sig pistol with mixed features other than what's offered? (ex. a p229 E2 with siglite adjustable sights and a threaded barrel, or a standard 229 with a TB) they seem to try to create a pistol for everyone but they really weren't able to include me!

Thanks a million!

 

[rellascout]

No custom pistols from Sig.

The phosphated internals go back to the Sig p226 Navy IIRC. It is also available on the Combat P226 but no other models IIRC.

 

[1LT]

thanks. oh how i wish i could let them build me a "P229 combat TB" !!!

 

[metalman8600]

The coating you are talking about is parkerizing. You can send out parts to be parkerized from any pistol. If you can't get a specialty Sig, you can have your current pistol or any other pistol's parts disassembled and parkerized. You can even do the parkerizing yourself using materials from http://www.brownells.com/

 

[1LT]

Do you know which parts i should parkerize?

 

[metalman8600]

My guess is anything made of steel that you can disassemble that already doesn't have a coating. I don't have a Sig so I don't know much about the internals.