Best way to get zinc oxidation off slide?

[AremRed]

Hey y’all, I’ve been gifted a pistol with what I was told was zinc corrosion on the slide. Any tips/tricks for getting that off?

 

[Cameramonkey]

Posting pics will help.

Since you were told what it is, are you sure they are right? Lots of actual experts here to tell for sure.

 

[printcraft]

 

[AremRed]

Posting pics will help.

Since you were told what it is, are you sure they are right? Lots of actual experts here to tell for sure.

Best pic I could get…discoloration from oxidation on the slide with a couple specific spots. Or maybe it’s just the blueing going away?

 

[AremRed]

Surprised you didn’t hit me with this one

 

[gassprint1]

All you can do is sand it down and cerakote it. It will happen again being those slides were made of zinc potmetal material.

 

[AremRed]

All you can do is sand it down and cerakote it. It will happen again being those slides were made of zinc potmetal material.

Ah, ok! Thanks for the info

 

[Squirt239]

Ah, ok! Thanks for the info

I know a guy....

 

[bwframe]

Not to knock our friend Squirt239, but is the pistol worth throwing much money at?

Could you ever recover your investment in a nice ceracoat job on it? A ceracoat job that WILL begin to wear with regular holster use.

Just my , but I'd sell that pistol as is. Conversely, if I was sure I wanted to keep that pistol, I'd rattle can some unique sort of camo pattern that would still look eclectically well as it "battle wore" off from use.

 

[Cameramonkey]

But if you value the pistol, Squirt does excellent work.

 

[55fairlane]

All you can do is sand it down and cerakote it. It will happen again being those slides were made of zinc potmetal material.

" zink potmetal" is what we in the industry call "four nine zink" 99.99% pure zink for die casting. Zink is incredible soft....are you certain the slide is zink? I'm really curious

 

[Mij]

" zink potmetal" is what we in the industry call "four nine zink" 99.99% pure zink for die casting. Zink is incredible soft....are you certain the slide is zink? I'm really curious

Same here, I did a duck duck and a brave search and couldn’t or didn’t find anything.

 

[gassprint1]

Same here, I did a duck duck and a brave search and couldn’t or didn’t find anything.

I thought it was weird that he said zinc on slide, so i looked it up and found posts that many said they had same issues years back. According to a couple informative posts(forget the website), a few had said most if not all of those pistol slides were made of a zinc potmetal by some company for walther and that they were pretty much throw-aways when wore out.

Heres a walther forum with such info.

https://www.waltherforums.com/threads/consult-p22-zinc-slide-wear.8088/

Armory blog

https://www.armoryblog.com/firearms/hand-guns/yet-another-cracked-walther-p-22-slide/

 

[gassprint1]

Same here, I did a duck duck and a brave search and couldn’t or didn’t find anything.

Updated my post with the information. I use duck duck search also. Think you told ne about it couple months back after me complaining about googles new crappy search.

 

[DadSmith]

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Surprised you didn’t hit me with this one

I was thinking this when you said that.

I've got 5 grandchildren in the last 3 years so a I'm seeing a lot of that lately.

Have you tried Ballistol? Let it sit several hours to over night use a stiff nylon brush.

Edit:

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