Brownells Teflon/Moly Oven Cure Gun Finish

[mossback]

Anybody have any experience with this product? I would really like to know how well it holds up under hard use. I recently bought a S&W 34-1 2", in really good mechanical shape but the bluing is worn and it has some surface pitting. Any other suggestions on a good durable finish that can be done at home would also be welcomed.

[MI VHNTR]

I've used DuraCoat with good results. Brownell's has it, as does Midway. Here's the factory webiste:
http://www.lauerweaponry.com/

MI VHNTR

[flyer05]

If it is the Brownells spray on. I have tried it and tossed it. Dura coat or I like the GunKote stuff. Good luck

Just to add, don't use the stuff that comes in a spray can, use your own sprayer.

[gunnut69]

For reallu rough service I use powder coating.  A good friend does the stuff for a living and it's really tough.  The baking lacquer I use sometimes when restoring aluminum alloy parts.  The moly bearing material supposed to act like powder coat that's applied wet rather than with an electro static gun.  The baking process sets up the powder..

[Kivaari]

I tried both Gun Kote and Brownell's Moly/Teflon. Both situations were blasted with 120 grit alum oxide prior to the applications and the oven.

I'll admit that I may have cooked the moly/teflon too long...but the Gun Kote results were much better. Although thoroughly blasted, I had some peeling and flaking with the moly.  :roll:

This may be symptomatic of the moly as Brownell's indicated glass beads or alum oxide were ok...then in the same breath recommended 60 grit alum oxide. I think it may have held better on 60 grit surface but no way I'd use that large of oxide...

[JohnClif]

We've had several customers over the years who wondered why Black-T costs $200 or more, and decided to have a gunsmith at another shop put on his own Brownell's-based finish. In every case, the customer eventually came back to us dissatisfied with the durability of the spray-on finish and had his gun Black-T'd. In short, based upon my experiences, I can't recommend the Brownell's finish for any harsh usage.

I've seen guns that were powdercoated. The danger here is that it is very easy to put too thick of a finish on the gun, covering up markings and making the gun hard to dissassemble (or assemble). I'm sure it's a durable finish (my aftermarket Jeep bumper is powdercoated and it's holding up well) but it isn't well-suited for moving parts, and I'd only have someone with a lot of experience and whose work I'd examined and approved of put it on.

I have no experience with the DuraCoat finish but I have been looking at their website today and it looks intriguing. I have a custom Winchester M70 Laredo-based 6.71 Lazzeroni Blackbird with a 27" 1:12" Lilja barrel AND the Laredo's BOSS installed that I may try this out on. This looks like the same finish that Springfield Armory may be using on some of their firearms (but I do not know if this is true or not).

(The gun shoots 100gr Nosler Ballistic Tips at 3,975 ft/sec chrono'd to 1/2 MOA groups and is absolutely devastating on coyotes that are call-shy and like to hang out past 300 yards. At 300 yards, it's like shooting them with a .264 Win Mag touching against them.)