[CR]Re: Parkerising

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:12:48 +1300
From: "Wayne Davidson" <wayne.collect@xtra.co.nz>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <248.483f39a.30e663a1@aol.com>
Subject: [CR]Re: Parkerising

Hi all, what about using gunmetal blue, I know it might not be as durable as other finishes, but the colour is neat, and requires no heat.......regards wayne davidson Invers NZ...........

on 30/12/05 11:19 PM, StuartMX4@aol.com at StuartMX4@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 30/12/2005 07:21:47 GMT Standard Time,
> classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
>
> If you have any linseed oil left, use it to oxide any bare metal bolt
>> heads you might have. Heat the head up and quench (drop) it in
>> linseed oil and you have a pretty durable black finish that was
>> popular into the 1950's.
>>
>> Chuck Kichline
>> Austin, TX
>
>
> and Chuck asked,
>
>
> Would that be Parkerizing?
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=parkerizing&btnG=Google+Se
> arch>
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
>
> If memory serves me correctly, Parkerising was a variation of Coslettising
> (?) in which the steel parts were heated up in a mixture of phosphates. What
> Chuck Kichline proposed works even better if you get the bolt or whatever red
> and then hold it in the steam from a kettle. It oxidises, rusts if you like,
> and you can seal it by rubbing with oil. I got that tip some forty years ago
> from an old copy of Practical Mechanics Handbook by the ubiquitous F.J.Camm
> who wrote books on everything including Every Cyclists Pocket Book as
> essential to the nineteen fifties schoolboy as his Letts Schoolboys Diary and
> his
> weekly copy of the Eagle.
> Stuart Tallack in rainy Sussex