I've had bad luck with blued guns kept in storage, living on the coast with high humidity and salt air condensation etc.
Without exception, even blued guns that were fairly well looked after, just oiling wasn't enough and I ended up with the steel being attacked by moisture and rust sneaking in and doing damage.
I bought a parkerizing kit and ended up finding out that it's pretty easy to get a fairly nice finish.
I have some auto engine parts that are parkerized and on the parts that are parkerized there has never been an issue with rust, but those are cast iron parts.
So what I'm wondering is: Can I expect parkerizing to offer the same rust protection when used over steel as cast iron?
Here is a 1911 slide that I parkerized over a surface that was finished to a 400 grit semi polished surface - If that surface would be more rust resistant in storage than bluing, I would repeat that treatment on my remaining blued guns.
Or does parkerizing need to be done over a sand blasted surface to be effectively moisture resistant?
Thanks for any input on this
Happy Holidays!
Without exception, even blued guns that were fairly well looked after, just oiling wasn't enough and I ended up with the steel being attacked by moisture and rust sneaking in and doing damage.
I bought a parkerizing kit and ended up finding out that it's pretty easy to get a fairly nice finish.
I have some auto engine parts that are parkerized and on the parts that are parkerized there has never been an issue with rust, but those are cast iron parts.
So what I'm wondering is: Can I expect parkerizing to offer the same rust protection when used over steel as cast iron?
Here is a 1911 slide that I parkerized over a surface that was finished to a 400 grit semi polished surface - If that surface would be more rust resistant in storage than bluing, I would repeat that treatment on my remaining blued guns.
Or does parkerizing need to be done over a sand blasted surface to be effectively moisture resistant?
Thanks for any input on this
Happy Holidays!