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A while back I got some Taurus 82's that were in... rough shape to say the least. The bluing looked awful as they had belonged to a police dept down in South America who must have thought that gun care meant leaving a revolver in the bed of your truck for 20 years 
Anywho, picked up a large ss tank, some Manganese parkerizing solution, a propane, burning and other odds and ends and set off to right the wrongs of years of neglect as not even a Taurus deserves such poor treatment.
Here is the only pic I could find of one of the revolvers before blasting and I believe it was one of the better ones.
For the parkerizing to properly take to the metal it needs to be a rough surface and must be a non ss ferrous metal, i.e. regular steel. It's important to clean the parts of any grease very thoroughly as even touching the metal will cause fingerprints to be etched into the surface. Pics after glass bead blasting:
Next I stood around a ss tub full of near boiling acid solution enjoying a cigar and watching the parts bubble as the solution etched itself into the parts. After they were done I would take them out, bathe in hot water and then soak in WD40. After letting them soak for several hours I reassembled and this is what I'm left with:
Even though they were dunked at the same time for the same duration some parts did come out darker than others and that is mainly due to the type of metal. From reading, harder metals seem to darken more than softer metals. In particular on these revolvers the cylinder and barrel are a shade darker than the rest of the gun.
Ultimately I'd like to get an electric heating system as I've read it's easier to control the heat and play with a few different recipes of solution for different shades. I'd say for a first time I'm happy with how it turned out.
Anywho, picked up a large ss tank, some Manganese parkerizing solution, a propane, burning and other odds and ends and set off to right the wrongs of years of neglect as not even a Taurus deserves such poor treatment.
Here is the only pic I could find of one of the revolvers before blasting and I believe it was one of the better ones.
For the parkerizing to properly take to the metal it needs to be a rough surface and must be a non ss ferrous metal, i.e. regular steel. It's important to clean the parts of any grease very thoroughly as even touching the metal will cause fingerprints to be etched into the surface. Pics after glass bead blasting:
Next I stood around a ss tub full of near boiling acid solution enjoying a cigar and watching the parts bubble as the solution etched itself into the parts. After they were done I would take them out, bathe in hot water and then soak in WD40. After letting them soak for several hours I reassembled and this is what I'm left with:
Even though they were dunked at the same time for the same duration some parts did come out darker than others and that is mainly due to the type of metal. From reading, harder metals seem to darken more than softer metals. In particular on these revolvers the cylinder and barrel are a shade darker than the rest of the gun.
Ultimately I'd like to get an electric heating system as I've read it's easier to control the heat and play with a few different recipes of solution for different shades. I'd say for a first time I'm happy with how it turned out.
I'll either be trading them or selling them off. I already have some Wesson .38 revolvers so I don't really need some Taurus' as well.
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