Refinishing a 500 Barrel

This is probably the closest match to parkerizing that I know of short of buying the chemicals to do parkerizing. It's what I put on my Delisle build that I did last year.

You do have to have an airbrush and bake it in the oven at ~300 for an hour after it sits overnight after painting it (at least overnight) to keep the fumes down.

It's not bomb proof (though nothing is). But it does hold up a lot better than paint. There's a lot of tech info on their website about salt water and acid corrosion testing and stuff that was done before they could sell it to the DOD/navy seals, but it's what I use for myself.

This is a grey black (old school Colt grey anodizing). They have other shades as well. If you want a matte finish, heat the part up to about 100 or 105*F just prior to spraying.

FWIW, this is a matte finish that I wanted on this old gun because of historical preference. If you've never heard of a Delisle, that's OK a lot of people haven't. And even a lot of unfortunate Germans never "heard it" either.

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Here's their socom black on another silencer build that I did.

I had to remove the anodizing in order to do the electro-etch engraving and then refinished it in socom black.



I did colorfill the .45 text with white, but you can't really tell the difference in the black.



Come to think of it, I did the lower receiver in it as well. Here it is raw/in the white



After sitting all night airing out and flash curing, before baking:

Without an airbrush, I guess you're stuck with spray or brush paint or finger paints regardless.

My Delisle project was a labor of love. I've wanted one for decades. Sadly, the 220 or so that were actually made, are all spoken for, or gone at this point other than a few in Royal Museums. And if there were an original that came up for auction, would surely be well above my means.

So, I did the next best thing and made my own.

Here's my first test shots with it. Yes, I made the internals based on the original design. Many people told me that I should use more modern baffles, but the silencer is the heart of the system and I couldn't bring myself to do it. I wanted it as close to the original prints as possible.

Very few alive today have heard what a real one sounded like. Since this was made off the original prints as closely as I could and with the help of a dear friend from New Zealand that is an author and written books about it and was fortunate enough to be able to go through the originals in London Museum, this is about as close as humanly possible to copy one as you'll see.