The Handloaders Bench Home
Home Search search Menu menu Not logged in - Login | Register
The Handloaders Bench > Rifles > Pistol and Revolver > Finish for aluminum

Attention: Due to an increase in spammers all new members start out as probationary members. You will only be able to start a welcome post in the welcome new members forum. You can reply to all other posts. Once you have reached 5 posts you will be a full member and can start topics. We apologize for the inconvenience but spammers are becoming a real problem. We are also experiencing problems with new members receiving activation emails. We are manually activating new members. Please be patient with us. We will activate your membership within 24 hours of registration. People planning to register for membership with The Handloaders Bench. We had to block gmail addresses from registering here for our member’s security and protection, because spam bots have been using gmail a lot to cause problems. You can use a free hotmail or yahoo address to register and receive the activation email. After your membership has been activated, you will be able to change your email back to your gmail address in your account under the menu button at the top of the forum. We are sorry for any inconvenience this might cause. HB Admin

Finish for aluminum
 Moderated by: wheezengeezer, DesertMarine, bea175
 New Topic   Reply   Printer Friendly 
 Rate Topic 
AuthorPost
 Posted: Fri Jul 10th, 2009 09:42 PM
   PM  Quote  Reply 
1st Post
Ky Greg
HB Pro Staff


Joined: Thu Jun 4th, 2009
Location: Greensburg, Kentucky USA
Posts: 87
Photo: [Download]
Are you a handloader?: Yes
Favorite type of cartridge to load?: pistol
My favorite chambering is:: 44 magnum
Status: 
Offline

  back to top

A co worker asked me to take a look at his blued .357 Blackhawk that he has just aquired and touch up the bluing and basically a good cleaning. The frame/trigger guard which are aluminum have scratches and chips down to bare metal and I'm wanting to strip it and refinish. Anyone ever refinished aluminum, and if so what did you use?



____________________
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson


 Posted: Sun Jul 12th, 2009 12:16 AM
   PM  Quote  Reply 
2nd Post
miestro_jerry
Guest
 

Joined: 
Location:  
Posts: 
Photo: 
Are you a handloader?: 
Favorite type of cartridge to load?: 
My favorite chambering is:: 
Status: 
Offline

  back to top

There are many ways to finish aluminum, I prefer anodizing it, but I sent that kind of work out to a place that does quality anodizing.

Before snding the metal out, I grit blast the piece to get all of the old finish off, some times after grit blasting, I bead blast the metal to give it mottle finish, so it won't be so shiney bright after it gets anodized.

If he doesn't want to go to all that work, you could try Aluma Hyde from Brownells:

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=1117/Product/ALUMA_HYDE_reg__II

With use Aluma Hyde, it is still best to grit blast or bead blast the metal to clean it up.

Hope this helps,

Jerry


 Posted: Mon Jul 20th, 2009 09:21 PM
   PM  Quote  Reply 
3rd Post
Paul B
Handloading Master
 

Joined: Sun Sep 30th, 2007
Location:  
Posts: 1957
Photo: 
Are you a handloader?: Yes
Favorite type of cartridge to load?: I load everything!
My favorite chambering is:: 
Status: 
Offline

  back to top

On my old model Ruger Blackhawk .45 the ejector rod and grip frame got to looking pretty ratty. I just polished them out to shiny metal and the end result looked pretty doggone cool. I could just send it in to Ruger to be refinished but then they'd converted to the new model system which I do not much care for. I grew up with Colt single actions and I know the meaning of "Five beans in the wheel." In fact, that's one of the things I teach in my Hunter Ed clases is  how to properly load an old style single action revolver.

Paul B.


 Posted: Tue Jul 21st, 2009 01:24 AM
   PM  Quote  Reply 
4th Post
Ky Greg
HB Pro Staff


Joined: Thu Jun 4th, 2009
Location: Greensburg, Kentucky USA
Posts: 87
Photo: [Download]
Are you a handloader?: Yes
Favorite type of cartridge to load?: pistol
My favorite chambering is:: 44 magnum
Status: 
Offline

  back to top

I took the frame down to bare aluminum, I then applied 3 light coats of Wheeler's Cerama-Coat (purchased from the fine folks at Midway USA) and tomorrow I'll bake the frame to cure it. So far it looks incredible and I'm very pleased with the results....so far, I'll let you know the post bake results and hopefully follow up with some photos.

 



____________________
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson


 Posted: Wed Jul 22nd, 2009 04:00 AM
   PM  Quote  Reply 
5th Post
Ky Greg
HB Pro Staff


Joined: Thu Jun 4th, 2009
Location: Greensburg, Kentucky USA
Posts: 87
Photo: [Download]
Are you a handloader?: Yes
Favorite type of cartridge to load?: pistol
My favorite chambering is:: 44 magnum
Status: 
Offline

  back to top

Sorry no pics, but I was impressed with the finish of the Cerama-Coat. Follow instructions to the letter for best results. The owner of the Blackhawk thought I was tricking him another gun, he didn't think it was his. :wink: 



____________________
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson


 Current time is 04:42 AM
The Handloaders Bench > Rifles > Pistol and Revolver > Finish for aluminum
 Top

UltraBB 1.17 Copyright © 2007-2008 Data 1 Systems
Page processed in 0.1885 seconds (20% database + 80% PHP). 28 queries executed.