[TheForge] Staining stainless Blackening

Fri Feb 21 19:38:06 2003

Doesn't  Ron Young at sculpt nouveou (spelling) have color stains for 
metals?

Ray Miller
Cincinnati

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 07:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Years ago when the hand gun industry was interested in using 
> stainless, we
> experimented with blackening by the use of molten salt.  It turned the
> stainless (both 400 and 300) black and corrosion tests showed that it 
> was not
> impaired by this process.  If you try it, come back and let us know 
> your
> findings.  Also, I believe that one of the 3M companies (in New Jersey)
> developed green, blue and red colors for stainless that actually 
> penetrated
> the surface and did not impair corrosion resistance and looked pretty 
> good.
> Mike Schermerhorn
>
>
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