Re: [CR]WWII blackened parts

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:06:05 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]WWII blackened parts
To: gianivelo@hotmail.com, monkey37@bluemarble.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 12/8/0 9:53:51 PM, gianivelo@hotmail.com writes:
>I'm looking for any information about parts that were painted black during
>>WWII.

The process was called Parkerization and the parts were said to be Parkerized. Used on guns it was faster, cheaper and tougher than bluing but how it was done I don't know. Phil Brown