White Gas Cylinder

[Bill Hollinger]

Fellas, here are a few photos of Tom Doniphon's LL M1 gas cylinder to add to the discussion. It looks as if it has had a blackened finish to it at one time. However, it is not far from those that appear to have never had a finish.

[browningautorifle]

The yellowish coating is a tin of some type, like what's done for chrome. I used to see that while bead blasting .45s that came from Central America, and we bought them for resale. To park them we had to remove the chrome and that's what I looked for in the light of the blasting cabinet. I assume it's the coating used to keep the parkerizing on.