What *are* old Sheridans coated with?

Deus Machina · 05-09-2007, 08:44 PM

I had a heck of a time completely stripping my Blue Streak's lower tube. A really thin coat of some surprisingly durable black stuff. Lacquer, maybe? I wanna know so I can get it on the finished project and it'll last. Just looks more professional than a patina, IMHO.

jwigum · 05-09-2007, 08:48 PM

I recall asking PPS about it, and they said it was some sort of baked finish that isn't environmentally friendly to do.

That's about all I know about it... I wish there was a way to get it redone, I'd love to have a PPS brass pumper done in that finish.

PPS offers black zinc, but I hear it's nowhere near as durable.

Ruckus Fox · 05-09-2007, 09:09 PM

I know that some ways you can save the paint on your marker is to store it between games in relatively air-tight spaces. I keep my PGP in its holster suspended by my closet clothes hanger rack. I also use remoil wipes on the metal parts after I'm done cleaning it after every game. These are normally used on real rifles and such to remove "rust building particles" like sweat and grease...plus they make them shine like beauties!

One other thing that I plan on doing to preserve the paint on my PGP is to have someone custom make a delrin pump. Delrin is decently soft...and if you get someone who knows what they're doing...they can evenly space it so your pump doesn't rub up against the tubes.

--Ruckus

c6quad · 05-09-2007, 09:10 PM

yep, i heard it's a toxic finish too, and i'll be a case study for "how" toxic it really is considering all the nice "in the black" brass i have in my house. lol....

B · 05-09-2007, 09:18 PM

Toxic process not toxic finish it is environmentally unsound to do now it is a blacking process not really a finish on top of the brass.

A replicated finish can be done with commercially available products now it take lots of work but it has it's rewards.

Deus Machina · 05-09-2007, 09:23 PM

Hmmm. Well, would lacquer stand up well? I love that deep look, and if it's durable enough...

Otherwise, I'd bladly black or blue it, if I could only find a durable way to do it.

c6quad · 05-09-2007, 09:42 PM

Duracoat it. that stuff is tuff as nails and easy to do yourself.

Deus Machina · 05-09-2007, 10:16 PM

I'll have to check to see what the starter sets cost. The airbrush I've seen in the pictures looks like a standard single-action.

paintballwannab · 05-15-2007, 12:27 AM

I was looking for something to blacken the brass on my piranha LB, I found this:
Brass Black Rejuvenation and Touch Up Restoration Repair from Van Dykes Restorers

Its called brass black, theres also another product called Blacken it. Also another memeber here had mentioned viniger, rub it on, let it sit for a few min and then wash it off.

chplnstone · 05-16-2007, 12:24 AM

ive tried brass black from burchwood casey, with limited success...my polished brass seems to resist it, maybe if i bought enough to soak it in a vat of the stuff...even tried livers of sulpher, a jewelers blackening agent, without much success...i, too, am VERY interested in the OEM black finish recipe...

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Ruckus Fox Active Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pierre, SD	I know that some ways you can save the paint on your marker is to store it between games in relatively air-tight spaces. I keep my PGP in its holster suspended by my closet clothes hanger rack. I also use remoil wipes on the metal parts after I'm done cleaning it after every game. These are normally used on real rifles and such to remove "rust building particles" like sweat and grease...plus they make them shine like beauties! One other thing that I plan on doing to preserve the paint on my PGP is to have someone custom make a delrin pump. Delrin is decently soft...and if you get someone who knows what they're doing...they can evenly space it so your pump doesn't rub up against the tubes. --Ruckus __________________ Feedback

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05-09-2007, 08:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
jwigum is in the left gate... Join Date: Apr 2006	I recall asking PPS about it, and they said it was some sort of baked finish that isn't environmentally friendly to do. That's about all I know about it... I wish there was a way to get it redone, I'd love to have a PPS brass pumper done in that finish. PPS offers black zinc, but I hear it's nowhere near as durable.

05-09-2007, 09:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
c6quad MCB Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NC	yep, i heard it's a toxic finish too, and i'll be a case study for "how" toxic it really is considering all the nice "in the black" brass i have in my house. lol....

05-09-2007, 09:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
c6quad MCB Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NC	Duracoat it. that stuff is tuff as nails and easy to do yourself.

05-16-2007, 12:24 AM	#10 (permalink)
chplnstone bringing back the dead Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: pensacola, florida	ive tried brass black from burchwood casey, with limited success...my polished brass seems to resist it, maybe if i bought enough to soak it in a vat of the stuff...even tried livers of sulpher, a jewelers blackening agent, without much success...i, too, am VERY interested in the OEM black finish recipe...