Type 1 Barrel Band ID?

[Hercules Powder]

Is this an Inland band? If not, which manufacturer would have used it.

I’ve been under the assumption that early Inland bands were blued. Now I’m wondering if they were originally parkerized and have worn smooth over the years.

Band and swivel are new old stock unmarked. Swivel has narrow ¼” opening. Band and swivel are parkerized (med/dark gray). Screw has Du-Lite finish. There are 3 faint to very faint weld scars on top of the band.

It and two others just like it were in a box of new old stock parts I bought a couple years age. The box contained mostly Inland parts: barrels, bolts, slide and a bunch of small parts mostly in original packages. Also, a few S’G’ parts and a package of Rock Ola firing pins were in there too. The barrel bands were covered in cosmoline inside a partial wrapper from Inland marked handguards.


Thanks in advance.
John

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[Bruce McAskill]

The early type 1 bands were all blued and not parkerized.

[Hercules Powder]

Bruce,

Thanks for your reply. Do you/or anyone have any future thoughts or theory?

Could it be a later replacement part? That seems odd to me with a narrow sling swivel. Has it been refinished? That doesn’t seem to make sense with the screw being Du-Lite. Or, my least favorite possibility. A reproduction?

It is whatever it is. I’d sure like to know what that is.

TIA
John

[jimb16]

It wouldn't be a replacement part. Later parts would have been type 3 bands. That means that it is either a "repark" or a repro.

[Bubba-7]

I have seen type 1 bands in grease in an individual sealed WWII pack and they look like this one. I have also seen Winchester WWII replacement barrel assemblies in the paper and grease with parkerized type 1 bands.
The early carbines I can think of had blued type 1 bands. I really don't know.

[Bruce McAskill]

Maybe it's me but the more I look at this band the more it looks like it was sand blasted and then parkerized.

[Bubba-7]

I don't see the weld scares would expect to see for a WWII band. So I don't know what it is.

[ChipS]

The early type 1 bands were all blued and not parkerized.

What defines 'early'? Didn't Inland parkerize the barrel assembly (barrel, band & sight) as a unit at some point? If so, when did they start doing this? Also, there is a top-middle weld scar on this band, although very faint, but we can't see if there are 2 more on the sides. I agree, it looks blasted and re-parked, but I have seen supposedly original Inland bands with 3 very faint 'smudge' weld scars. I really am not qualified to give any kind of an expert opinion but, given the whole package, I believe it is probably a pretty good reproduction; although it could be real if there are 3 welds. JMHO

[Rustship]

I see the weld spot, and given the position it's in, it should be a three spot weld! You just have to magnify the picture.

[Hercules Powder]

The weld scar in the middle is most noticeable there is another very faint one to the left of it but I cannot see the third one.