Anyone know a place in San Diego that does nickel boron plating?

[Whiskey-Tango]

Found 2 places online but they both said no to BCG plating because they need a license to work on firearms and they didn't have one.

[weespeed]

Found 2 places online but they both said no to BCG plating because they need a license to work on firearms and they didn't have one.

That's strange. They shouldn't need any license to do BCG.
Lower receiver yes, but parts I don't think so.

[Whiskey-Tango]

That's what I thought... I guess I'll have to mail it out no big deal

[Dano3467]

Please post you finding on boron plating experience & how it wear's. Am curious about this. As they don't make a BCG plated for the 308/7.62x51 yet...

[cowboyup]

Tech Plate Anaheim does

[Gunsmith Dan]

Nickel Boron is identical to Nickel plating as far as hardness and corrosion protection. The only different is that is is slicker so it does not wear out as fast when rubbing on other Nickel Boron coated parts. It does wear much faster on parts that are not coated but not as fast as a Nickel plate. Nickel Boron is not any more scratch resistant than Nickel ( for instance a sharp tool like a screwdriver will scratch Nickel Boron the same as it would Nickel).

Cerakote has a special Dry Film lubricating coating that has the ceramic particles but is super slick and very thin (Nickel plating typically adds 0.001 of a inch while the Cerakote Dry film is between 0.00025 to 0.0005 thick and is slicker). It also costs less that Nickel Boron and in about 10 times more corrosion resistant plus is designed to prevent carbon buildup on the surface (originally designed and still used on engine pistons, piston walls and turbine blades).