parkerizing question

[benjaminw7528]

 I'm thinking about parkerizing a m1 carbine and was wondering how. I've never done it before any info would be helpful

[Aardvark]

Here is my recipe:
I have had some interest in the Ruger I parkerized lately so I will put my recipe here for the solution.
Items needed:
1.Stainless pan--(restaurant supply)
2.Phoshoric acid rust treatment (Ospho)
3.Zinc dioxide or Manganese dioxide
4.Steel wool
5.Heat source (stove top or hot plate)
6.Candy thermometer (restaurant supply)
7.Coat hanger wire or similar
Mix in a gallon jug 0ne pint of Ospho and fill the rest with distilled water.(about 15%).Pour solution into pan and heat to about 190 degrees,(do not boil!).
As the water gets hot mix in about 1.5 OZ. of whichever dioxide powder and stir around well.
Get about 1/2 of a clean unused steel wool pad and pull it apart and put it in the solution and let it start to dissolve.
Whatever parts you want parkerized must be clean of all blue and oil or grease.Don't touch the clean metal with your fingers as this will leave a trace of oil and the finish won't take.
Suspend the parts with wire into the heated solution until submerged but not touching the bottom of the pan.
At this point you will see a fizzing action coming off the parts...Leave them in the solution till it quits fizzing,(around 20 min.)..Remove from the solution and put into an oil bath or thoroughly spray them with oil and hang or other means to air dry.
Wipe the parts down and keep them oiled.
Most of the products are available in your area though you can go to this website to get the zinc dioxide or manganese dioxide:
http://www.bigceramicstore.com
Here is a pic of the Ruger done with the Manganese solution:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/InspectorYeats/ruger/01a.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/InspectorYeats/ruger/001.jpg



And here is a couple of rifles I did:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/InspectorYeats/Mauser/1a.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/InspectorYeats/Mauser/2-1.jpg

NOTE:  The zinc oxide will give a lighter gray finish and the manganese dioxide will be a darker, mear black color...Color will vary from firearm to firearm dependent on metal hardness and composition.

[trotterlg]

It is dead easy and makes a great finish, this is my setup for doing barreled actions.  Larry

[billy_56081]

May be this is a dumb question, but how do you keep the inside or the action or barrel from being parkerized? Or do you parkerize the inside too?

[trotterlg]

I plug the barrel with expanding rubber plugs, I allow the inside of the action to be parkerized.  Larry

[DDelle338]

trotterlg:
  Can you explain what is in that picture and how it works?

[trotterlg]

The tank on top is a sliced down 4 inch PVC pipe, there is a pump that pumps the solution through coils in the microwave to heat it, the tank on top of the microwave is the recovery tank that the pump draws from.  The drain on the long tank is just a piece of pipe up from the bottom so that at the corret level it runs over the top of the pipe and down into the recovery tank, the hot solution is pumped in from the left and runs out the right.  I can do barrel actions, and the tank could be as long as you need.  I use all plastic tubing and fittings.  Works great.  Larry

[DDelle338]

Very nice, Thanks.
  Makes me want to set something like that up to treat something even though I don't have anything that needs treated as of now. 

[Dan Chamberlain]

I've done handguns on top of a coleman stove with a 16 quart stainless pasta pot!  You can buy a kit pretty easy for about $45 or there about.

Dan