06-24-2011, 11:28 AM
LRRPF52 Wrote:in.dmand
I've only been doing the oven-bake Cerakote, and it is extremely durable. If you want to remove it for some reason, like a smudge...well...it takes some pretty aggressive steel filing or metal wire brush, and the wire brush seems to just polish it mostly. It is the most durable finish I have seen yet. I've tried to gouge a freshly-done upper with a brass screw, and it didn't even mark the upper, other than some brass rubbing off a little, then wiped away. I really pushed down on it because I was coating it again with another color anyway, so I bore down on with a lot of force.
Do you know if you can you bake on the spray finish? After seeing how well it does, I have decided to Cerakote all my exterior parts. Scott at Vortex told me I could bake my Viper PST at 200F with Cerakote, and the scope would be fine, but I haven't tried it yet. Maybe the spray-on would be best for that application.
It also does not change colors on barrels when heated up during high volume sessions, like PTFE-based paints. Cerakote is really the way to go for durable firearms finish.
LRRPF52
thanks LRR for the great info. yeah, if i could have afforded it and had the resources i woulda went with the oven bake cerakote on everything but the scope, but that would have doubled or tripled my price since i would have had to get so many more 4oz containers of cerakote. =) but that is absolutely incredible about it not marking with the screw. wow! i know you can bake most polymer parts at 175/200 without an issue. when i called magpul about it (when i was looking into it) they said the UBR stock would be fine to bake but they weren't sure about the pmags. said to try one and see lol.