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Old May 22nd, 2013 #14
Nigel Thornberry
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The factory used to cold blue the milled semi-automatic magazine casings before the follower, spring and bottoms were assembled. We stopped doing this because the material cost involved was too great (and hazardous for humans) and the finish was never perfect. Problematic whenever we have to ship a spotless order for the US overlords to peruse over. Now we electrocoat them with CLEARCLAD. Though the hot bluing, in my opinion, would be a much better solution as the coating is much thinner but just as robust, and, due to the fact that we mill a feed ramp on each magazine casing, the hot bluing process would also eliminate the possibility of the e-coat stripping off and creating sharp shards of coating. It also seems to me that the electrocoating is not done 100% correctly every time as I've noticed e-coat slivers and drips as well.

Powder coating would also be acceptable for non-moving parts, such as the barrel. Actually ideal if you can find a place that can do it perfectly.