New guy showing off my 1943 NPM

[hoveyh]

Thank you for the warm welcome. I have not broken the rifle down to check the other parts ID. Not sure I am going to as I am planning on enjoying this rifle regardless of her internals..

Any thoughts as to why the trigger housing did not take the rebluing??

This forum site looks amazing. It is going to be a pleasure sifting through all this info... Thank You all big time.

HH

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[browningautorifle]

Any thoughts as to why the trigger housing did not take the rebluing??

When you commercially reblue a part that was parkerized, you have to do a good job of beadblasting first. If not, you get spotted finish. If you don't have strong enough salt solution in the bluing tank it may come out purple like that. The exception is a part with high nickel content. Like Winchester rifle barrels when they went to "Nickel steel". Blueing salts are boiled at a high temperature. They are a manufactured rust that goes into the pores of the metal. In this case too hot will rust and too cold won't do anything. Parkerizing is a crystalline structure that forms on the surface of the metal. Your trigger housing should have been parkerized not blued in the first place, so you may just as well re-do it. That sort of finish never came from an arsenal.

[us019255]

Your trigger housing should have been parkerized not blued in the first place, so you may just as well re-do it. That sort of finish never came from an arsenal.

Didn't a bunch of the Carbines that just came back from Europe (Austria??) and sold by the DCM show up with plum colored trigger groups, from rebuild by European arsenals??

I may have a bad memory so don't jump on me if I am wrong.

No matter what color the trigger group, it is a nice carbine.

[browningautorifle]

rebuild by European arsenals

You may be right there. The point is this isn't a US arsenal rebuild...I don't really count the things done by those other people. It would have to closely examined, but I'm pretty sure you won't see parkerizing come out purple. I've seen lots...it can be almost white(grey) to black but not shiney purple...