BOOGIE the oily
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Ok, some of you may remember I bought a Bersa Thunder 9 Pro XT with some "cosmetic details", a couple of months ago.
Now, that gun is known to have some trouble with hard primers, and, since I intend to start reloading soon enough, and all I can get in my country are primers that are famous for having that kind of problems, I bought an extra hammer, and been working on it, and, today, I got a can of flat black VHT for it.
Then it occurred to me: being that I never liked the weapon's duotone, could I paint the frame with VHT?
So here are my questions:
1. How durable would VHT be?
And the most important one:
2. Being that the gun's frame is made of 7075 aluminum, would the baking process damage it, or weaken it? VHT has to be baked in 3 steps, 1st, 30 minutes @ 250° F, then another 30 minutes @ 400° F, and finally 30 more minutes @ 600° F, with 30 minute cool down periods in between. Now, all I could find about annealing 7075 says 900° F for 2 hours. Would I be safe doing it?
Thanks in advance.
Now, that gun is known to have some trouble with hard primers, and, since I intend to start reloading soon enough, and all I can get in my country are primers that are famous for having that kind of problems, I bought an extra hammer, and been working on it, and, today, I got a can of flat black VHT for it.
Then it occurred to me: being that I never liked the weapon's duotone, could I paint the frame with VHT?
So here are my questions:
1. How durable would VHT be?
And the most important one:
2. Being that the gun's frame is made of 7075 aluminum, would the baking process damage it, or weaken it? VHT has to be baked in 3 steps, 1st, 30 minutes @ 250° F, then another 30 minutes @ 400° F, and finally 30 more minutes @ 600° F, with 30 minute cool down periods in between. Now, all I could find about annealing 7075 says 900° F for 2 hours. Would I be safe doing it?
Thanks in advance.