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Fred,
Thanks for the good suggestion, I'll do that with a "scrap gun", not my M1911A1. I want to get the Remington Rand squared away and I'll play with an old Jennings pistol that I have as there is no sentimental value attached to that.

I am thinking that the Parkerizing chemical may be the culprit and I'm ordering Parkerizing chemicals from Radoczy and shipping them to David, along with the gun parts as I've done enough damage.

I will find out what happened because I want to be able to Parkerize parts and I need to figure out what went wrong. Many people have posted that they have used plastic, aluminum, teflon lined bread baking stuff, etc... literally anything but a steel container and they didn't have the failure that I did, so I'm really thinking that it was the chemical. I followed the instructions very carefully and controlled the temp and the water used was distilled water in a jug, just like the instructions called for. I degreased everything several times prior to starting and I changed gloves more times than I can count.

Thanks again for the vote of confidence!