Crappy cerakoting job

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I just received back a Ruger No1 that is my dad's. I sent it away for a cerakoting as it was getting pretty worn finish. As a treat for father's day.

Got it back yesterday and it wouldn't even ####. So I took it apart to see why and to me it looks like they blasted it and didn't bother to even blow it before coating. Now there is sand in all the little parts in the trigger group. Sand in the drop block.

I akso think that they swapped parts out. Or maybe lost some and replaced them. The piece that the firing spring sits on doesn't look even close to the one I originally sent. The spring keeper doesn't even fit into the groove.

Now I am trying to reassemble and the fancy coating is coming off with my fingernail.

What are my options for this? I need a coating. Can this stuff be blasted off and re coated by someone else?

The person who did this seemed to have a very good reputation. Plus was a sponsor of this board. But I don't dare send this back to him. I am upset that my dad's old gun may have been almost ruined.
 
If???? you really don't want to send it back, go to Black Box Customs & make sure you tell them what happened. I'm sure they will do it right . Good luck.
 
Scratching off the safety button with my nail.



The block face scrapes off easily.


Nooks and crannies. The release to open felt gritty.


Screw holes where full of sand. Once I cleaned them out there is no coating in the slot.


Internals seized


The trigger was literally seized in place. Had to take the whole thing apart and get the sand out of the springs.

Sand in the barrel.

I do admit the gun was in tough shape before being sent away but at least it was in working order. Took me 2hrs to clean out all the sand and losen up the trigger to safely working order.

As for maybe swapped parts. I am thinking that perhaps the striker spring came off the rod. Scratched the hell out of it trying to get it back on. So it looks different.

Get what you pay for I guess.

I'm thinking bake on for the main parts and a quick air dry for the small parts.

Just wanted to know if this comes off easily to be recoated properly.
 
Cerokote will scratch but to do it with a finger nail is not right. Id be beyond my pain threshold from my nails peeling off trying to scratch my chassises. Now sliding them across an old rusty truck will do a fine job at scratching them. I agree about posting the name. If other members have had similar experiences and if the company set out to make it right or not
 
StoneHorse said:
After seeing the pictures, I would like to know where NOT to send a firearm. Is that rust on the trigger group? PM if you like.
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^^^ this

I’m looking at a cerekote job in the GVRD and now I’d like to know where to avoid.

Since the surface wasn’t prepped properly, it’ll need to be stripped and redone. You cannot trust where adhesion is good and where it isn’t, so the entire job needs to be redone.
 
If there's that much sand in the nooks and cranny's it means they did a poor job of blowing down the substrate before coating. That means the blasted surfaces will have dust in the profiling meaning poor adhesion to the primer.

If they were that sloppy I'd reckon they neglected to thinner wash the grease/oil off the internals before blasting which pounds the oil into the metal also causing poor adhesion.

Looks like a rush job from the pics.
 
brybenn said:
Cerokote will scratch but to do it with a finger nail is not right. Id be beyond my pain threshold from my nails peeling off trying to scratch my chassises. Now sliding them across an old rusty truck will do a fine job at scratching them. I agree about posting the name. If other members have had similar experiences and if the company set out to make it right or not
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I was going to mention this but you already beat me to it

Op this is a disgusting mess and iam putting that nicely

It makes me really sad and upset even more as you said it was your fathers gun and this was going to be a present for fathers day, that would hurt me more

I'm just going to stop here, the shop better pay for this atrocity
 
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If the original shop will not fix this mess you need to out them. Otherwise you are screwing over the rest of us who might send a gun their way.
 
I never understood people's reluctance to name names?????

Whether or not the person who performed this shoddy work makes it right with you it should not have happened in the first place. Names need to be given.
 
If this occurred to me, I would request a refund of my money and send the Ruger #1 to Black Box Customs. They have preformed three projects for me, currently they are finishing a second rifle in a midnight blue cerakote. Their (BBC) cerakote performance deserves an award of excellence. Cerakote is the most durable coating for firearms over any other product.
 
It's important that before you out the shop you give them the opportunity to make it right. Those pics look terrible.
 
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