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Just picked up a pieced together Mauser sporter with a Centurion Aluminum bottom metal. Looks much like an '09. If I take the paint off and Cerokote it, how durable might it be? Would it be comparable to M70 Featherweight aluminum so treated? Thanks Matt Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | ||
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Cerakote sucks on aluminum.  Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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Doesn't Brownells sell a product specifically for alumninum? Alumahyde or something similar? Jason "Chance favors the prepared mind." | |||
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Some say Aluma-Hyde is the greatest thing since sliced bread, others say it sucks. I've used it, but I think a rattle can of high quality paint works pretty much just as well. | |||
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Paint is paint. Doesn't seem to matter what fancy name you stick on it. Sorry.  When I was a kid. I had the stick. I had the rock. And I had the mud puddle. I am as adept with them today, as I was back then. Lets see today's kids say that about their IPods, IPads and XBoxes in 45 years! Rod Henrickson | |||
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Yep; I have used most all of it; the bake on types do last a bit better, and the Brownells stuff is easy to apply and looks good; (do not drop it in the rocks) but in the end, paint is paint. I think I heard that somewhere before...... | |||
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Thanks again fella's! Matt Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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Matt, a guy I know has the Birdsong coating on his ARs (including aluminum parts). It looks really good and he says it is very durable. http://black-t.com/technical-information/ Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Thanks, Paul. Matt Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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Anodizing is harder than the Aluminum itself. GOOGLE HOTLINK FIX FOR BLOCKED PHOTOBUCKET IMAGES https://chrome.google.com/webs...inkfix=1516144253810 | |||
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Agree with Wildcat. Have it anodized black. Anodizing converts the aluminum to aluminum oxide, also known as sapphire. Only diamond is harder. It will outwear several pant jobs. Jerry Liles | |||
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Where can I have anodizing done? Matt Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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"google" is your friend. GOOGLE HOTLINK FIX FOR BLOCKED PHOTOBUCKET IMAGES https://chrome.google.com/webs...inkfix=1516144253810 | |||
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Google "Small batch anodizing". GOOGLE HOTLINK FIX FOR BLOCKED PHOTOBUCKET IMAGES https://chrome.google.com/webs...inkfix=1516144253810 | |||
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