Parkerizing Solution

[exeric]

Don't use Pyrex, and don't put Pyrex on a hot plate ! My friend did that (seriously, a friend. . . not me) and the Pyrex container broke. Big mess. I use a stainless steel condiment container, ripped off from a fast food joint. . . . And it was a friend that stole that, not me.

[tomcat1]

Shooters solutions is the best. Follow his directions and you can't go wrong. Also, if you have any questions. Just call him. He always answers the phone. But be prepared to have your eyes glaze over. He's passionate about his product and will talk your ears off.... and also he's some kind of chemistry geek.

I just used a cheap Stainless pot I got from target to do small parts. Also, here's a link to a guy who will make different size tanks for you in addition to the standard one's he's got in stock. I have the 40" for gun barrels and just picked up the 20" to do small parts.

http://stainlesssteelcreations.net/p...-products.html

[len dowe]

Shooters solutions is the best. Follow his directions and you can't go wrong. Also, if you have any questions. Just call him. He always answers the phone. But be prepared to have your eyes glaze over. He's passionate about his product and will talk your ears off.... and also he's some kind of chemistry geek.

I just used a cheap Stainless pot I got from target to do small parts. Also, here's a link to a guy who will make different size tanks for you in addition to the standard one's he's got in stock. I have the 40" for gun barrels and just picked up the 20" to do small parts.

http://stainlesssteelcreations.net/p...-products.html

Your right tomcat1, he will talk your ear off and he is a chemistry geek. I went to brownells. I found it was cheaper and the end results were the same...imho.
Also, if you get the porcelain blue or gray spotted pots for canning @ your local thrift store, it will be just as good and you can get them for cheap.

[camsaure]

Eric, I wish I would have read this warning before I started. I broke pyrex, sure am glad I was in the shop and not on the wifes kitchen stove. A very good source for cheap stainless pans is a resturant supply. They have many sizes of pans used on steam tables, some supply outfits even have used pans. You may be also able to get them from local resturants. Ebay may be another option except shipping is getting high these days. Here is a tip; resturantuers discard pans when they have minor dents because they stick together when stacked into each other. That isn't an issue for what we need them for.

[billpedalino]

I broke a Pyrex container as well. What a stinky mess.... I use stainless steel now. One thing that I do is blast my parts with a coarse blast media (more coarse than No. 10 glass bead). I've even used clean blasting sand. Black beauty may be a little too agressive, but might work out if the pressure is properly adjusted. The resulting slightly coarser profile seems to enable better adheasion and build-up of the manganese and I believe it results in a darker finish. Anyone else have the same expperience?

[harleytoprock]

I use 80 grit aluminum oxide media which is pretty coarse. I think the oil oil soaks in and hangs on better. The darkness of color depends on the chemical composition of the steel. Not all steels will look the same. Whats worse, if you do some fill in welding most likely the welded area will be shaded different from parent metal.

[kg993]

I use an old coffee pot for small parts. Never considered breaking the glass. Mainly concerned about my wife reclaiming it if she brakes the one in the house. I think I'll put a bigger X on it now.

[billpedalino]

You're exactly correct... I've noticed variations in color shades on different parts as well. I assumed that certain steel alloys react to the process differently.

[portagepan]

I can't belive some of you used glass! Any parkerizing supplies I have ever seen state you have to use Stainless. Walmart also has stainless containes in the kitghen section. Personally, for the little I have used it I should just have looked for some already set up. Like a gunsmith, maybe. Mike

[T. Cotten]

Folks,

If all of the Parkerizing on a machine matches,
It might as well have been painted.

Or even better if it were painted, if the original Park'ing remains beneath.

There was never a better primer.

....Cotten
PS: PP! Glass is good, if Pyrex, etc.

[Chris Haynes]

If you look on the bottom of any Pyrex product you will read "No Range top Use". Other glass oven products have similar language. They are made to be used in an oven. Not on a stove top. Believe me, you may get away with it a few times but the time will come when it will shatter on you.

[upsrod]

I did it with the same disaster as everyone else because Bruce Palmer told me to in his book. He also shows a picture of it being done and you can see the elements glowing through the glass.

If you look on the bottom of any Pyrex product you will read "No Range top Use". Other glass oven products have similar language. They are made to be used in an oven. Not on a stove top. Believe me, you may get away with it a few times but the time will come when it will shatter on you.

[T. Cotten]

Good golly, Chris!

Absolutely none of my Pyrex labware, nor any I have encountered in my lifetime, ever had such script.

But I admit,
it has been about forty-eight hours since the last time I shattered a "kitchen" piece!

(Don't store it outside in cold weather.... or wait many, many hours,.. if not weeks,.. for it to "normalize".)

And seriously Folks,
Metal behaves in a similar fashion.
(Firearms should be kept close to your chest in extreme cold.)

...Cotten

[exeric]

Pyrex changed. There was a recent article about it on my MSN home page. Use stainless steel containers.

[upsrod]

The one I broke was probably 30 years old.

Pyrex changed. There was a recent article about it on my MSN home page. Use stainless steel containers.