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Posted: 1/9/2016 10:41:05 PM EDT
Anyone know how to achieve this look on an alloy trigger guard? the one on the left, it nearly looks parkerized like the metal shell carrier and color is near exact
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Ditto, since anodizing just leaves a open pore clear skin of RC68+, and it's the color tint of the dye that is soaked into the open pores before the anodizing skin is heat bathed to close the pores and seal the tint dye into into it.
So what you have is steel parts that have been zinc parkerized (not manganese that will produce a black finish instead), then a tint was produced to dye bath the anodized parts to color match them to the zinc parkerized parts instead. Zinc parkerizing top, and manganese parkerizing bottom, 
As for anodizing tint bath colors before the skin pores are heat sealed closed, any color is possible, since again the color you see in anodizing is not the anodizing skin itself that was acid/electrical formed, but the dye tint color that was leached into the open pores of the skin before they where heat bath closed isntead. As for metals that can not be parkerized or anodized, then they are just spray paint type coated instead. If you look at say Duracoat since it just a poly urthane two part paint, they have pre mix colors that will match both zinc and manganese parkerizering. If they don't have a color that is close enough, then SherwinWilliam for Prolane T color matched instead (Duracoat is just Prolane T). http://oem.sherwin-williams.com/products/metal/polyurethane-interior-topcoats/solvent/catalyzed/polane-t-polyurethane-enamel |
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