Ok so here's the in a nutshell description of my situation:
Bought RIA 1911A1 GI model
Despite I always use OCD-paranoid-levels of break-free on all my guns, it started to show bright orange rust spots
Decided to get it cerakoted and since I had jack for money, I looked around and found a place that does $125 with return shipping included on 1911s
Sent my 1911, took way longer than they said but thats fine whatever got it back today, went to the range and fired it, functioned fine, just as accurate despite barrel being coated yadda yadda
Took it down to wipe at least powder grit off and realized a bunch of parts were not cerakoted. Ok whatever. Then I noted a few parts had slivers of bare exposed steel. Nothing huge, like literally if you cut your finger nail and you had a crescent moon shaped little blotch is exactly how I'd describe these spots. They are on the barrel, inside the slide, and a there is one on recoil spring plug. There's also what appears to be a bit of a mass of like... a bubble around the rear sight that looks like the rear sight was never removed and cerakote was just sprayed over it and it massed around it from building up in the groove the sight goes into and bubbled upward...
I guess my questions are:
1: should I bother trying to talk to the guy who did the service at so low a price? He seems a little irked that I mentioned the magazine (I thought was included to be cerakoted in the service but I guess not) I had sent with it was not returned, though he said he'd ship it back, I don't really want to risk dealing with someone who's going to get pissy and thus probably cause more problems down the line.
2: If not, what can I do to cover these small bare metal spots? Should I use a blueing pen? Should I duracoat over it? I had a cerakote job done on a Browning Hi Power years ago that was way more thorough than this but cost almost 3x as much and never had to clean it after handling it, which was kind of the point of the cerakote, if my 1911 is going to have exposed spots, whats the purpose of cerakoting it if I'm going to have to clean it everytime I shoot it / handle it in certain areas?
3: Will it flake?
4: If bare metal starts to rust, will it spread under the cerakote?
Bought RIA 1911A1 GI model
Despite I always use OCD-paranoid-levels of break-free on all my guns, it started to show bright orange rust spots
Decided to get it cerakoted and since I had jack for money, I looked around and found a place that does $125 with return shipping included on 1911s
Sent my 1911, took way longer than they said but thats fine whatever got it back today, went to the range and fired it, functioned fine, just as accurate despite barrel being coated yadda yadda
Took it down to wipe at least powder grit off and realized a bunch of parts were not cerakoted. Ok whatever. Then I noted a few parts had slivers of bare exposed steel. Nothing huge, like literally if you cut your finger nail and you had a crescent moon shaped little blotch is exactly how I'd describe these spots. They are on the barrel, inside the slide, and a there is one on recoil spring plug. There's also what appears to be a bit of a mass of like... a bubble around the rear sight that looks like the rear sight was never removed and cerakote was just sprayed over it and it massed around it from building up in the groove the sight goes into and bubbled upward...
I guess my questions are:
1: should I bother trying to talk to the guy who did the service at so low a price? He seems a little irked that I mentioned the magazine (I thought was included to be cerakoted in the service but I guess not) I had sent with it was not returned, though he said he'd ship it back, I don't really want to risk dealing with someone who's going to get pissy and thus probably cause more problems down the line.
2: If not, what can I do to cover these small bare metal spots? Should I use a blueing pen? Should I duracoat over it? I had a cerakote job done on a Browning Hi Power years ago that was way more thorough than this but cost almost 3x as much and never had to clean it after handling it, which was kind of the point of the cerakote, if my 1911 is going to have exposed spots, whats the purpose of cerakoting it if I'm going to have to clean it everytime I shoot it / handle it in certain areas?
3: Will it flake?
4: If bare metal starts to rust, will it spread under the cerakote?
