Alumahyde 2

[Taylor Jarrell]

Will a coating on the magazine tube cause any tolerance issues, or would the excess just be shaved off?

 

[troy fairweather]

Any info on there website on how think the coating is, even bluing will wear off where things touch. Can it be cold blued?

 

[Taylor Jarrell]

Any info on there website on how think the coating is, even bluing will wear off where things touch. Can it be cold blued?

Not without taking off the parkerizing it's an Express. I'm wanting to hit it with some alumahyde to prevent Remington rust (which I've dealt with before). Considered cerakote but I can't justify paying as much for a coating as I did the gun.

 

[Taylor Jarrell]

If it wears a little that's fine I just don't want to spray it then realize the pump won't go over it.

Call me paranoid, but I still always ask the good people on this forum for their experience with products and methods before ever actually modifying anything I own from factory (even paint). I messed up one gun years ago that would have cost much less time had I simply asked first.

 

[troy fairweather]

Rem oil seams to work good for the rem rust soaks in the pores, guns the alumahyde a try for the costs you can buy the sulostion to parkerize.

 

[Taylor Jarrell]

Rem oil seams to work good for the rem rust soaks in the pores, guns the alumahyde a try for the costs you can buy the sulostion to parkerize.

That's what I'd normally do, but where this is factory Parker it seems like more protection coating the bad factory parkarization with alumahyde as a double layer as opposed to stripping the old parkerizing to do it again. I can tell this factory coat is somewhat better than the 870s turned out a few years ago, but no where near as rust resistant as my blued 60s wingmaster.

 

[Taylor Jarrell]

I did a SAR1 in a gloss black alumahyde before and it turned out well, but we all know the AK is known for loose tolerances.

 

[troy fairweather]

That's what I'd normally do, but where this is factory Parker it seems like more protection coating the bad factory parkarization with alumahyde as a double layer as opposed to stripping the old parkerizing to do it again. I can tell this factory coat is somewhat better than the 870s turned out a few years ago, but no where near as rust resistant as my blued 60s wingmaster.

Ya give it a try, I'd clean it real good.

 

[The Happy Kaboomer]

I have an old Remington 870 12 ga with 21" bbl that I turkey hunt with. When new I took it down and sprayed the barrel/receiver/magazine tube with dark green paint. It has held up well for the past 15 years. No problems at all.

 

[Virginian]

That is not Parkerizing on an Express.

 

[AJumbo]

Rustoleum Self-Etching Primer is a beast. It dries a greyish OD green, and once it cures you can't scrub it off with a Scotch-Brite. Makes a fine base for a rattle-can camo job, too.