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Old 03-08-2013, 11:15 PM
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Default Park tank set up - How many tanks? Critique my plan

I getting ready to buy everything I need for a parking set up and am looking for feedback on my plan. The process would go like this:

1) Degrease parts well during gun building process
2) Build gun
3) Beadblast parts with glass media, blow off with air
4) Boil parts in a water / degreasing solution (TANK #1)
5) Rinse off with hose
6) Submerge parts in park tank (TANK #2)
7) Rinse off with hose
8) Dunk parts in an oil bath. This tank to be a cheaper & appropriately sized plastic tank, like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Leaktite-Corp-...ref=pd_cp_hi_1

I plan on using Allegheny Arsenal's Home Park Kit:
http://mg34.com/product/home-parkerizing-kit-manganese/

Tank 1 & 2 would be the 40" x 6" x 6" tanks from Stainless Steel Creations:
http://www.stainlesssteelcreations.n...-products.html

I'm considering their electric water heater element ready tanks. Here is a link to elements:
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/elements.html

So, lemme have it you gunbuilding experts. Is this a solid plan? Missing anything?
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Old 03-08-2013, 11:55 PM
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I see this working so long as everyone follows the rules


Highly unlikely.
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I never said anybody else would be using it!
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Glass media isn't ideal for properly etching the metal for park prep. Aluminum oxide is preferred option.
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Are you looking for a professional set up or do you just want to spend money on a project?

If you are doing this for yourself and maybe to do one on one builds, One tank is a you need. Now if you are trying to set up a professional system then yes your system will work you just need to use grit like garnet or aluminum oxide not glass beads. Glass beads are for blueing not Parkerizing
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I've been glass beading everything before park for several years now and have never had a problem of any kind (and I parkerize a lot). What's the big deal with glass beads?
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Seems like it would work, although when I built up several FALs years ago, I went way cheaper. I blasted in a wardrobe box with a respirator, and I used silica sand. It seemed to put a nice tooth on everything, but never affected markings, even very light ones. My heater was the grill out back.

For final degreasing, I used acetone, just immersed small stuff and wiped larger stuff.

Have you parked before? I never got the hang of the post tank process, lots of stuff rusted up right away, I ended up re parking several mags. I think if I did it again, I would immediately spray with wd40 when it comes out of the park solution. I was planning on spray coating on top of the park because I couldn't get it dark enough, so I wanted to avoid oil, it didn't work out too well.

My problem, it turned out, was that it took 3 FALs to get the season just right, the third one turned out pro quality. Save your solution. It seems to get better.
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I would immediately spray with wd40 when it comes out of the park solution.
What we do is once the parts come out of the park solution, it gets submerged in an overflowing water tank and wiped down while submerged. Its comes out then immediately gets drenched in WD40, blew clean then covered in oil (break-free usually). Or we'd just use Break-free after the water if we had run out of WD40.
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