Educational
Zone #41 - Tiger Striping a Firearm - Page
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My
old buddy Ted and I have one last Sistema
each, and decided to paint them.
We wish we had more, but here's the last
two, mine on top and Ted's on bottom.
As
always, we started out by washing them in
mineral spirits to clean them of all oil
and grease, then bead blasted them to prepare
the surface for finish.
We
had read that a good parkerized surface
will hold paint better, so we decided to
park them.
The first step is to wash the parts with
TSP (Tri Sodium Phosphate) and them rinse
them well.
Here I am washing some small parts.
Then
we rinsed them really well.
We
then mixed the parkerizing solution that
we had gotten from Lauer as per instructions,
placed it in a stainless bowl, and heated
it up on the stove.
We then placed the parts in the solution
for about 15 minutes.
