Who can do Black Oxide Coating in Tulsa?

[TonyRumore]

Looking for someone that can do Black Oxide coating on a bunch of Tromix parts, in the Tulsa area.

Tony Rumore
Tromix

 

[HMFIC]

Hey Tony,

If you're looking for a gunsmith to do it, I'd check with Donald Franson (Honeybee is screenname here on OSA) of Franson Firearms here in Tulsa. He's a finish master, I'm just not sure if he's setup to do black oxide.

http://fransonfirearms.com/

 

[HiredHand]

I think HMFIC is correct.

 

[peanut]

Tony is up to something!!! Woot Woot!!!

 

[Shadowrider]

Try Southwest United Industries. They do all kinds of aerospace finishing work. I'm sure they could handle manganese or zinc phosphate.

http://www.swunited.com/

 

[CBCollier]

We have a plating shop where I work and we do zinc plating in clear, yellow, and now black. We also do electroless nickel. But, from some of the tests that we have done, we get a great finish with black zinc that holds up better than black oxide.

 

[Honeybee]

Black oxide is no problem, as long as it will fit into one of my bluing tanks I have the chemicals and burners to do it.

 

[Twmaster]

For anybody in the Norman, South OKC area I can do cold black oxide on small parts. If it is steel (not stainless) and will fit into my 2 gallon tank I can blacken it.

 

[Sanjuro82]

Black Oxide isn't a very durable finish, and you won't find too many shops that offer a true hot black oxide. The cold black oxides out there wear ever quicker. The oxidation occurs only on the surface and doesn't "penetrate" into the steel, rust resistance is minimal. But I do have to admit it does make a cool looking finish though. I prefer the look of Black Oxide over Parkerizing. I've used the kit from Caswell before and it works fine but doesn't last that long, be prepared to touch it up constantly. I found that a good paste wax (Johnson Paste Wax, Renaissance Wax, Howars, Lundmark, etc...) will help maintain the finish.

The high quality paint on finishes (cerakote, gunkote, molyresin, black-t, etc..) in matte black has pretty much made black oxide a dying option.