Parkerized Hardware?

[Rossignol]

Anyone supplying parkerized rectangular loops and dees? Or does anyone do any parkerizing? I really need 1 1/4" rectangular loops able to allow two pieces of 12 oz to pass through.

Thanks!

Brad.

[Shorts]

Anyone supplying parkerized rectangular loops and dees? Or does anyone do any parkerizing? I really need 1 1/4" rectangular loops able to allow two pieces of 12 oz to pass through.

Thanks!

Brad.

Not sure of anyone supplies them but if you've got steel hardware on hand I'd say try making your own batches. I've done some home parkerizing on my pistols and some scrap hardware from my truck using homebrew kits and it was a fun weekend project. If you purchase a complete parkerizing kit you'll probably have better results from the beginning, but they can be expensive depending on your budget and the size of kit you get. Homebrews work well but take a little more trial and error and can be more finicky about temps and portions. Not impossible, just needs to be detailed.

[Rossignol]

Thanks for the info! I'm going to look into getting the equipment!

[TwinOaks]

Home Depot for "Prep-n-etch" driveway/concrete cleaner. It's phosphoric acid, and when mixed in a 1:3 ratio with water creates a nice home brew phosphating solution. It needs to be pretty warm, and it stinks, so do it outside if you can. But....here's the important thing: A Parkerized finish is not a finish. It's incomplete. Parkerizing parts is essentially just one step in the process, and should be viewed as more of a surface preparation than the finished product. "Okay, wise guy, so why did the military have so many Parkerized guns, huh?" Because most of the weapons being parkerized were expected to spend at least a few weeks covered in cosmoline, in a crate, in the hold of some ship sailing off to a war theater......and it's significantly quicker than blueing, since the 'cold blue' formulas weren't available back then. Parkerizing creates a nice surface for cosmoline to stick to.

If you want Parkerized, go ahead, but it still needs some other form of treatment to be "finished". Something like CeraKote, Duracote, etc. If you want a really good finish, look at rust bluing and carding.

Besides....Brass just looks better with leather.

[Rossignol]

Good lookin out on the home brew! I will look for that!

I hear what youre sayin about brass, but the kinda guys I'm putting things together for are tac guys, LEO's, military and firearms instructors. I have parkerized guns myself. Also the steel is heavier than the brass parts I have found. So, I really dig the parkerized for what I'm doing, and I am in no way trying to make reproduction pieces. On my slings, in this case, I just dont like the brass...

Thanks again for the advice on the parkerizing solution!!!