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
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> and Chuck asked,
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> Would that be Parkerizing?
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=parkerizing&btnG=Google+Se
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> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
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> If memory serves me correctly, Parkerising was a variation of Coslettising
> (?) in which the steel parts were heated up in a mixture of phosphates.
Right you are: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA