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Question about my Beretta 1951
- Thread starter GaryED50
- Start date
I think the old guns look odd with the epoxy paint finish. I vote like jar said, clean it up and cold blue the small rust spot. Or check into Mark Lee Express rust blue. Its faster than slow rust blue and it leaves a nice look. I did a CZ82 with it, the paint finish was toast. I didn't even disassemble the lower frame, the springs are a nightmare. I rust blued it, boiled, then carded it and flushed it out with WD40 to get any water out. Looks good, not like a really shiny hot blue but a nice dark color.
Jim Watson
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If I had bought one, it would be because it was cheap surplus and I did not expect it to look real nice. $85 to Cerakote a $280 gun? Not me.
Fortunately there is aluminum cold blue these days.Something I likely should have mentioned the frame is alloy not steel
For the aluminum frame, you may be stuck with Birchwood "aluminum black," or else some kind of paint. Aluminum-black will improve things a bit, but it will depend on how badly the finish is torn up. And it's not particularly durable.
If you go with rust blue for the steel parts and aluminum black for the frame, I suspect you'll have something that looks quite nice, and it will be a fun little project that requires almost no specialized equipment.
If the frame is very badly beaten up, so that aluminum-black just won't cut it, one possibility is to spray the frame with brownell's aluma-hyde. It's another paint and presumably not as durable as cerakote, but one can is about $25, and I guess you can always touch it up.
If you go with rust blue for the steel parts and aluminum black for the frame, I suspect you'll have something that looks quite nice, and it will be a fun little project that requires almost no specialized equipment.
If the frame is very badly beaten up, so that aluminum-black just won't cut it, one possibility is to spray the frame with brownell's aluma-hyde. It's another paint and presumably not as durable as cerakote, but one can is about $25, and I guess you can always touch it up.
Bill DeShivs
New member
Why do people think old guns should look new?
Then, they try to do some substandard treatment like paint or cold blue and end up with a gun that looks worse than when they started.
I would leave it alone- and I can properly refinish my own guns.
Then, they try to do some substandard treatment like paint or cold blue and end up with a gun that looks worse than when they started.
I would leave it alone- and I can properly refinish my own guns.
HighValleyRanch
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How do you blacken a zinc frame?
Bill DeShivs
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The frame is aluminum, not zinc.
I can nickel plate aluminum, or send it out to be anodized.
I can nickel plate aluminum, or send it out to be anodized.
HighValleyRanch
New member
I didn't mean the Beretta was Zinc.
I have an old Iver Johnson TP22 and the slide is zinc, so as everyone was suggesting ways to blacken alloy or steel, I posed that question to see if someone knew.
I have an old Iver Johnson TP22 and the slide is zinc, so as everyone was suggesting ways to blacken alloy or steel, I posed that question to see if someone knew.
Bill DeShivs
New member
All you can do with your frame is paint it.
highpower3006
New member
Because I like my stuff to look as nice as possible, I would be tempted to refinish the entire pistol.
Usually though, I procrastinate long enough, so get used to the look and wind up leaving it alone.
Usually though, I procrastinate long enough, so get used to the look and wind up leaving it alone.
stuckinthe60s
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looks perfect just the way it is.