Nickle plating a rifle
- Thread starter Brambles
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I'm not sure where you can have this done but you want the electroless nickel plating - not the common plating done with electricity.
The electroless plating is far superior for firearms. It gets in every nook and granny equally and does not have the build up of electric plating.
Personally I would not do the interior of a rifled barrel.
The electroless plating is far superior for firearms. It gets in every nook and granny equally and does not have the build up of electric plating.
Personally I would not do the interior of a rifled barrel.
I have had a total of four guns electroless nickel plated, the first two were done in '93, still have two of them. I stripped the receivers and made plugs for the ends of the bores with a threaded rod thru the bore holding them in place. On these I had washers made of "nylatron" to keep the 180 deg F solution out of the bore. I still have these plug and rod setups. Before dipping, they were lightly beadblasted to remove the bluing. It's a great way to make a blue action look "stainless" when installing a stainless barrel. The nickel has a slight yellowish tinge to it and can be differentiated from stainless. The 300 Win 700 BDL that I had plated was carried on at least 10 one week long elk hunting trips and hauled around on many other trips. Where it was rubbed hard, like on the barrel inside a soft case while bungeed on a quad rack it would get shiney spots but it would never rub off. Very durable stuff. "As plated" it has a Rockwell hardness of about 40 Rc...after application it can be heat-treated to about 60 Rc. Mine were never heat-treated. Great stuff.
J
JoeP's old business account
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I would look at Cerakote. One of these days we have ours up and running..
Rembo said:
That sounds like the right way to do it...
I had a couple of actions done about 20 years ago and 15 years later they were still going strong with a lot of use in the wet.... there is nothing wrong with a good electroless nickel finish.
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To answer the question posted, call Magnaport Canada, and talk to Joe Uniks at (204)482-8649. He does electroless nickel plating. I do some small parts but when I need a complete firearm with too long parts for my tank then I send it all to Joe.
Regards,
Vernon Swarbrick
The Silhouette Shop
477 Garden St.
Duncan, BC, V9L 3V7
ph.(250)748-1868
fax(250)748-4570
To answer the question posted, call Magnaport Canada, and talk to Joe Uniks at (204)482-8649. He does electroless nickel plating. I do some small parts but when I need a complete firearm with too long parts for my tank then I send it all to Joe.
Regards,
Vernon Swarbrick
The Silhouette Shop
477 Garden St.
Duncan, BC, V9L 3V7
ph.(250)748-1868
fax(250)748-4570
call Karl at KS Arms in Edmonton. A friend had a few done thru Karl about 10 years ago. Karl would do the dissassembly/beadblasting and reassemby. He sent it out to be plated. Most all the of the industrial hardchrome platers in Edmonton do e-nickel. However they aren't interested in doing little jobs that come in off the street,ie: guns,..especially guns
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At the time I had mine done 10-12 years ago I was in the position of writing PO's literally in the hundreds of thousands of $$ a year to a few plating shops so I had no problem getting mine done
.At the time I had mine done 10-12 years ago I was in the position of writing PO's literally in the hundreds of thousands of $$ a year to a few plating shops so I had no problem getting mine done
J
JoeP's old business account
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Rick was that in Edmonton? Which ones did the best plating work for you. I've got similar flexability but have never exercised it. Having seen the difficulty in maintaining uniform color for varying metal types, the process never appealed to me but perhaps I was missing something.
