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Beretta claims "100% corrosion resistance" by using a combination of stainless steel, plated nickel, Bruniton, and chrome on their shotguns. At least some of them anyway.
People need to get away from the idea that Tenifer/Melonite is a finish. It is not. It is a surface hardening treatment. It does not alter the steel's appearance.
Whatever it is that makes it black is not the Melonite treatment. Melonite is like case hardening without the color of bone charcoal or cyanide.And yet, when I asked, I was told that the vendor Mr Hamilton deals with could not or would not provide Melonite that was not black. And it doesn't rub off.
What you want is salt bath nitrocarburizing without the oxide layer on top that creates the black finish. There are many proprietary nitrocarburizing processes under a variety of names, most of the ones that don't include the oxide layer are for internal components for automotive engines and gearboxes where they don't need the corrosion protection the oxide layer provides. One that I've used in the past is Tufftride, it will leave a surface that just looks like heat treated steel.So why does Burlington list black color as a characteristic of the process?
Please show pictures of colorless Melonite.
XD and XDm "stainless" slide guns are melonited. Is that what you mean by colorless melonite?So why does Burlington list black color as a characteristic of the process?
Please show pictures of colorless Melonite.