Has This Been Zinc Phosphate Painted?

[painter777]

Eastwood sells a Zinc Phosphate in a spray can. Others probably do also.

Does this look like they used 'Painter in a can' ??









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[GotSnlB28]

Ahh, yes, that "unfired" gem. I'd run across it as well. I was thinking a fresh park job.

[browningautorifle]

I think it's a cerakote paint job.

[painter777]

Notice they even did the barrel band spring ?

Maybe Park, maybe CeraKote, but IMO they Ruined that WRA....

This one (pictured below) is Eastwoods Zinc Phosphate but, to dark. Before I found one that looked very much like the one on GB.
It may have been one of Eastwoods other products, maybe like the galvanize spray or another makers type of spray can Zinc Phosphate.
Seems everyone from Rust Oleum to Krylon makes a version.

Eastwood Zinc Phosphate Aerosol :



Link: Zinc Phosphate Aerosol 12 oz

[Singer B]

Looks kind of like the stuff on my Standard Products that I posted about a few months ago. I sent it to Chuck at Warpath and he was able to reparkerize it.

[painter777]

Looks kind of like the stuff on my Standard Products that I posted about a few months ago. I sent it to Chuck at Warpath and he was able to reparkerize it.

Yours was a baked on finish.
Chuck did a really nice job on it, no surprise there.

I gotta laugh at feedback left on the Eastwood site, left by a 'Gunsmith', I assume that's the pictured barrel above.

Quoting: "Perfect gun-smithing application
I was repairing a rifle for a client, and needed to repair rust spots on a "Parkerized" finish on the receiver. I treated the rust spots and reapplied bluing to protect the metal, but it did not have the desired Parkerized finish. After doing a LOT of research into the process, I decided to try out Eastwood's Zinc Phosphate Aerosol on the rifle. Although I had to experiment a little to get it just right, the results were fantastic, and the client was extremely pleased."

Zinc Parking is really pretty easy. But many people are too lazy to do the proper prep work.

[browningautorifle]

But many people are too lazy to do the proper prep work.

Exactly. I asked a gunsmith locally to black park an early Winchester Carbine receiver and it came back black baked on paint. They were pleased as punch with the results. Lazy as a ba5tard...

the client was extremely pleased.

Because he never knew he'd been hosed.

[painter777]

Lazy as a ba5tard..

Sounds like my Logger...... This was what I came home to, minus the 2- 2' cookies I cut off the bottom and rolled to the curb.
1st meeting: He said no problem, "We'll take care of it. All you'll need to do is call me when you have the cut offs / firewood moved and I'll come grind the stump"
They did a 'Chop and Drop' on the oaks on the riverbank outback. Man what a tangled mess, like heavy pick up sticks ! I didn't get any pictures of that mess..... Didn't want any.

Checkout the precision cutting on this Maple trunk (remember I had already cut off 4' from the bottom before she took this picture).

I was Chip-Munked !

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[Matt_X]

I gotta laugh at feedback left on the Eastwood site, left by a 'Gunsmith'

Because he never knew he'd been hosed.

Sadly true. And many, too many, rely on-line reviews either because they have to or they actually believe that popularity somehow seperates out mechanical or chemical soundness.

See it a lot in the classic car and hot rods too. But its everywhere. Ever see the ads for refinishing bathtubs? Those coatings are nothing like are true ceramic applied at hundreds of degrees onto cast iron (or steel). Might be OK for some purposes, but its not the same hardness, adhesion, or durability.

Exactly. I asked a gunsmith locally to black park an early Winchester Carbine receiver and it came back black baked on paint. They were pleased as punch with the results.

So sorry. Chalk it up to experience I guess. I think we've all learned the hard way about someone who claimed or seemed to know how to do something and turns out they didn't. Sometimes they don't even know themselves that they don't know...

[browningautorifle]

I think we've all learned the hard way

I was hooped for recourse as there's no one locally that could have sorted it. It would need bead blasted and redone. I assembled it and shot it a bit until the left top edge of the bolt track separated, cracked from front to back and that ended the early number Winchester anyway. Sold the parts and turned in the receiver to de-register it. Done... The sad part was they probably looked at each other when they did the work and said "He'll never know the difference"...