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Old 11-29-2020, 03:48 PM
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In my experience it's functional. It is an easy way to make a barreled action match in color/finish. It holds up well to solvents, corrosion and typical wear. It is not always the prettiest though. Also, if applied to a bolt and/or raceway it can have a slightly gritty feeling and the buildup can significantly reduce clearance between the bolt and raceway. This can be a good thing or bad, depending on the situation.
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Old 11-29-2020, 07:28 PM
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There are several techniques for building up a metal part that involve either welding or spraying a metal powder onto the part. They all take special equipment or special alloys to do the job. The processes range from small hand held torches similar to oxy-acetylene torches with powder feeds, to multi-million dollar robotic cells. Lots of sprayed metal processes like plasma spraying and high velocity oxy-fuel spraying are used to rebuild worn jet engine parts.
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Old 11-30-2020, 05:16 AM
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Thank you guys for the replies. Just what I was hoping would happen.

For a beat around gun, hell yeah. But, one of these cost me $3300. That's
why I was shook about a paint job instead of a proper bluing.

DD: That looks good. I have a NEF, might be the VR conversion I did.
It's painted too, stock, barrel, bipod and all with that multi mix grit type paint.

I've used it for the hand rails both in my shop and the folks basement stairs.
Good stuff and looks decent.

But: NOT on a high priced gun. And for sure not without running it past me ahead of time either.
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Old 12-01-2020, 03:19 PM
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We use Cerakote on most all our custom rifles. We still have our bluing system, but never use it any more. Cerakote is not indestructible, but very durable! Also water proofs whatever it covers. We use the procedure on very expensive rifles.
I can finish my own rifles either way here in our shop and will choose cerakote pretty much every time.
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Old 12-01-2020, 03:59 PM
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What Dasherr said.........

For me, getting a written estimate detailing all work to be done and how it will be done is the first step in getting a rifle built. It saves a lot of later headaches no matter how well you think that you know the gunsmith.

That said, Cerakote is not a finish just for cheap knock-around guns. Its durable and is a very nice looking finish if done properly. If done by someone who doesn't know what they are doing, you've probably been had by an amateur at applying Cerakote.

I have it on several rifles that are far from being cheapies, and I'll pay for it again for similar rifles if I know who is doing the application can do it correctly.

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Old 12-02-2020, 04:03 AM
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Thanks for all the input.
That's what I was hoping to learn.

Even though I don't like a painted gun regardless of what it's called.

Dasher: What temp do you cure that paint at?

Same deal that I don't like anything other than nice looking wood either.

I have a 'herd' of NEF rifles with plastic stocks and traded off the ugly looking
wood stocks from a couple.
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Old 12-03-2020, 12:46 AM
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200-300f depending on material.
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Old 12-03-2020, 05:56 AM
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Ok, that's Heat Dried.

nowhere hot enough to Bake it on as some claim.

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Old 12-03-2020, 02:00 PM
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I have 2 rifles with cerakote. One I had done after getting back from the wettest hunt of my life and the rifle blueing was failing and I had a rusty mess by the time I got home. That was a float hunt in AK., and it rained almost the whole time and then we were putting our rifles in wet gun cases each time that we got on the river to float further down. My buddies gun that was on the same hunt, had cerekote and not a lick of rust. Now, I won't have the problem again either.
I bought the other rifle already with cerakote. I like the green that it came in and have no plans of changing it.
I found an interesting link where some testing was done between different coatings, including blueing, nitride, high temp powder, etc. Some of you might find it interesting.
https://www.cerakote.com/resources/c...other-coatings
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Old 12-03-2020, 05:34 PM
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Yes- that was an interesting video, thanks.
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