Browning BL-22

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:40 am

Are the BL-22s all steel? Any aluminum, such as receiver or barrel bands? I have a chance to pick one up (cheap) that some goob has removed most of the finish with very coarse sandpaper, including the stock.

I only got to handle it for a few minutes outside in poor light, the barrel bands looked like they might be aluminum. Anyone know?

pwl44m · Post by **pwl44m** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:27 am

Barrel bands on Mine R Alum. Everything else seems to be steel.

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:00 pm

Thanks, I think that I will get it. Since it's mostly steel, it will be easier to refinish; I've never done an aluminum receiver and wasn't looking forward to doing one. I guess I can just polish the scratches out and paint/coat the barrel bands.

pwl44m; thank you for responding!

pwl44m · Post by **pwl44m** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:10 pm

Your welcome . I just happen to have it sitting right here beside Me,along with 6 other guns. I keep them stacked here so The Wife wont know if a new one shows up. LOL

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:22 pm

You can anodize the aluminum and I suspect something like Duracoat would work as well.

Mine is at home...

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:31 pm

Way out here in the country, anodizing isn't really an option. I was thinking some sort of duracoat type finish, something that I can do myself.

765x53 · Post by **765x53** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:12 pm

Birchwood-Casey has a product called Aluma-Black that works well on small parts.

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:30 pm

765x53 wrote:Birchwood-Casey has a product called Aluma-Black that works well on small parts.

Have you tried it? Is it applied like cold blue liquid or paste?

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:00 pm

Many summers ago I had a Marlin Glenfield Mdl 60 .22 auto. Some dufas had engraved his SocSecNo in the flat left side of the receiver. I carefully sanded this out, then painted the receiver with flat black enamel paint. Not the Krylon lacquer, but actual enamel. After it started to dry I put it in the oven for couple hours at IIRC 150º. That paint never chipped, never showed any tendency to dissolve with the Hoppe's I used to clean the rifle with, and it actually looked like a factory finish.

That would be my suggestion for the aluminum parts.

Joe

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:06 pm

Thanks Joe, did it come out flat or sort of a satin finish?

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