Coltdriver
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Today Joe at the Colorado School of Trades called to tell me my HP was back from the coating factory.
The Boron Carbide is a very uniform, silk smooth, very tough finish. I had seen a .45 done by a fellow with the handle of ArmySon on another board. That finish (by the same company) was a silky shiny grey silver. My HP turned out a very uniform satin dark grey. My barrel, which is somewhat polished steel, came out with the hue of the gun ArmySon Posted so his gun must have been polished steel as opposed to the cast make up of the HP.
However, I am still very happy with the way the finish has come out.
I brought the gun to the School of trades detail stripped. They would have preferred that I brought it in assembled so that they could test fire it, then they could disassemble it, ship it, get it back, reassemble it and test fire it again.
But this is a new process to them and I convinced Joe that there were no missing parts and that he was welcome to inventory the gun parts if he wanted. He agreed to take the gun but would not re assemble it when it came back (liability nonsense). But I did not care as reassembling a HP is very easy to do.
Every single part was coated except the springs and the two pins on the trigger, one that captures the mag safety and the one that passes through the trigger spring, the roll pins for the extractor and the one that holds the (not sure of the name) bar that releases the hammer.
The coating was very thorough. It completely and very uniformly covers the entire gun, inside and out. Anything that does not show as uniform in these pictures is only because I did not wipe the oil off of the gun very well. Where there is oil it is shiny(er).
I will get out to fire it this week end and let you know how it behaves. I wanted to leave the mag safety in it because this is intended to be a carry gun and I like the firing pin block and the mag safety feature for a carry gun. Later I will try treating the face of the mag and the mag safety with the molyfusion described by me in another post.
I will post pics as soon as I figure out how to on this new forum. If this finish holds up well this is easily going to be the best finish on the market. Where I pounded the trigger pin back in, the punch left no mark and no scaring of the finish. This is fairly tough stuff. It will cost you about 250, maybe a little less if you let them ship your gun with a few others. The cost breakout was 100 for the coating, 70 for the shipping and 40 for some disassembly done by the gun smith school (they removed the millet sights and catalogued a few of the small parts). So 210 for me.
The Boron Carbide is a very uniform, silk smooth, very tough finish. I had seen a .45 done by a fellow with the handle of ArmySon on another board. That finish (by the same company) was a silky shiny grey silver. My HP turned out a very uniform satin dark grey. My barrel, which is somewhat polished steel, came out with the hue of the gun ArmySon Posted so his gun must have been polished steel as opposed to the cast make up of the HP.
However, I am still very happy with the way the finish has come out.
I brought the gun to the School of trades detail stripped. They would have preferred that I brought it in assembled so that they could test fire it, then they could disassemble it, ship it, get it back, reassemble it and test fire it again.
But this is a new process to them and I convinced Joe that there were no missing parts and that he was welcome to inventory the gun parts if he wanted. He agreed to take the gun but would not re assemble it when it came back (liability nonsense). But I did not care as reassembling a HP is very easy to do.
Every single part was coated except the springs and the two pins on the trigger, one that captures the mag safety and the one that passes through the trigger spring, the roll pins for the extractor and the one that holds the (not sure of the name) bar that releases the hammer.
The coating was very thorough. It completely and very uniformly covers the entire gun, inside and out. Anything that does not show as uniform in these pictures is only because I did not wipe the oil off of the gun very well. Where there is oil it is shiny(er).
I will get out to fire it this week end and let you know how it behaves. I wanted to leave the mag safety in it because this is intended to be a carry gun and I like the firing pin block and the mag safety feature for a carry gun. Later I will try treating the face of the mag and the mag safety with the molyfusion described by me in another post.
I will post pics as soon as I figure out how to on this new forum. If this finish holds up well this is easily going to be the best finish on the market. Where I pounded the trigger pin back in, the punch left no mark and no scaring of the finish. This is fairly tough stuff. It will cost you about 250, maybe a little less if you let them ship your gun with a few others. The cost breakout was 100 for the coating, 70 for the shipping and 40 for some disassembly done by the gun smith school (they removed the millet sights and catalogued a few of the small parts). So 210 for me.
