Need help with a Remington Model 51 spoon...

[targa911S]

Well that will do. Teflon scares me anyway.

[azasadny]

Tab Tanner visited yesterday and I showed him my other Remington Rand M1911A1 that has a mismatched slide and frame, but is in overall nice shape. I was considering re-Parkerizing this next, but he recommended that I leave it alone, so I will. When I acquired the gun, it had a Colt slide on a Remington Rand frame and I traded the slide for a nice, but recently re-Parkerized slide, so the gun is "bi-color".

[azasadny]

The Parkerizing chemicals will be here Tuesday and I'll see if the sandblaster is done with the parts on Tuesday also. Could be re-Parkerizing next Wed-Fri.

[mossguy]

Good Luck on the redo, Art!

[azasadny]

Well, I gave it another shot today and it turned out even better than I expected or hoped it would...
Degreasing the frshly sandblasted parts in lacquer thinner...

hot water rinse...

Into the stainless steel tank with 1 1/2qt of Parkerizing solution...

Parkerizing process going on...

Into the hot water rinse after 25 min of Parkerizing (bubbling stopped)

After the rinse, parts were submerged in WD40 for an hour to cool down...

Cleaned up and heated parts , coated with grease...

[azasadny]

Parts soaking in Rig grease (Thanks, David!)

I Parkerized my old pitted slide from the Remington Model 51 that David restored for me to test the process...

The gun is a lighter color than the pictures show... perfect for me!
The zinc phosphate gave it a nice light gray finish...




So, I had Parkerizing solution sitting around and I'm "restoring" this old Charmglow grill, so what do you think I did?


I Parkerized the top rack of the grill just because I could...


Overall, a very productive and satisfying day!! The sandblaster did a great job on the M1911A1 and the Charmglow grill, which I believe gave me the excellent results I got...

[targa911S]

EXCELLENT JOB ART!!!! Good for you!

[Seahawk]

This is good news!

[azasadny]

Thanks, guys! This was an "on" day for me. everything I did worked out great. I just wish I could have these days more often!! I'll reassemble the M1911A1 tomorrow and post more pics. I'm off to church, then to visit some very old friends who aren't doing too well... What a nice day!

[azasadny]

I'll post some "before and after" pictures today after I reassemble the gun.

[oldE]

Art,

Very happy to see your latest posts.
Hard to believe the change in appearance from the first trial (and I mean that in both senses of the word). Glad you were able to pull it off with some good advice.

Well done and thanks again for sharing.
Les

[fred cook]

is Art! Congratulations on having the perserverance to "beat" the process! Knew that you could do it!!!

[azasadny]

Thanks, Les!

Here's what the spoon looks like after reassembly. Still lots of grease oozing from the spoon...








What it looked like before I started this project...

[azasadny]

This is what the old battle axe looked like before I started this project... You can see how crappy the "home bluing" was on the gun. There were spots all over and the bluing was incorrectly applied and was just horrible...





Many thanks to David, Fred, Les, and everyone ... for the good advice and for not letting me give up on this! I'm very happy with the results!!

[azasadny]

I used this chemical...

Receipt from Paul Johnston (PJ's Gun and Metal Care Products)


You use 1oz of Parkerizing chemical for each quart of distilled water, I used 1 1/2 quarts for the pistol. This is the "lighter" zinc phosphate, which give the light-med gray color. If you use the manganese phosphate, you'll get a darker-black color. The chemical is very easy to use, hardly any fumes, no damage to anything, easy to clean up and relatively effortless. Cleaning, degreasing the gun is most important. I believe the 70-80 grit aluminum oxide media the sandblaster used was the right choice for surface prep.

[azasadny]

The M1911A1 I Parkerized yesterday is on the left...

The M1911A1 I Parkerized yesterday is on the bottom...

[mossguy]

Well done, Art! That is beautiful!

[azasadny]

Tom,

Thanks! Without your's and David's and Fred's encouragement, I may have given up on this. The gun looked so bad after the 1st attempt to Parkerize that I though the process must be finicky/difficult/unreliable, but it was the Teflon that caused the problems I experienced. The Radocy chemical really does a great job and the sandblaster really created a nice surface for the chemicals to work on. I'm looking for stuff to Parkerize now!

[azasadny]

It's amazing how much grease/oil the recently Parkerized gun soaks up!

[azasadny]

Every evening I reapply some Rig grease and the next day, it's dry again. I was told it's very important to keep a freshly Parkerized gun wet with grease until it stops absorbing it...