Cerakote Wear

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Can anyone give me an insight into their experience of wear on cerakoted parts, in particular the rifle bolt?

Had a rifle cerakoted recently and happy with the quality of work. However I've noticed that after only a couple of outings it's showing wear on the bolt, presumably where it runs along the slides in the action.

I would have thought it would be a bit more hard wearing than that?

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How durable do you expect a product that is applied as a liquid before being baked, to be when rubbed against steel ?

Neil.
 
Answering without any technical knowledge on Cerakote;
My stainless mod was cerakoted, and shows signs of wear on the bottom front edge where the rifle was put into the slip/dragbag,without any chipping or wear otherwise, so I assume it may not be super abrasion resistant.
Another rifle, after rebarreling and Cerakoting, the bolt was a wee bit rough to work due to the coating being applied on the slides, but this didn't last long.
 
It does wear/will wear, especially on the bolt (after about 100 cycles). I too was a little disappointed, but it is just one of those things.
 
Good to read your experiences. Most of what I read about temperature & how hard wearing it is led me to believe it was tbe next best thing to silky granite.
The promotional material seems to lead you to believe this when I read about cerakote & the other which I forgotten the name of now. One had bar charts showing wear comparissons etc with cerakote seeming to be the best....or is it more about being careful who you have apply it for you possibly. There's a lot of pic uploaded of some really nice work out there & wouldn't mind having a rifle done myself. Interesting to see how this thread develops.
 
Rory said:
It does wear/will wear, especially on the bolt (after about 100 cycles). I too was a little disappointed, but it is just one of those things.
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Was yours done long ago, how's the rest of the rifle looking now? Any pictures...
 
I don't think it is bad - it almost certainly is the best aftermarket protective firearm coating. I don't really think it is 'who' applies it either (unless the agent seriously doesn't care about his rep...). The phrase 'don't believe the marketing men' springs to mind, but of course they will tell us anything our brains want to convince us is right.
Even Glock's Tenifer process, better than blueing and parkerizing, wears after a while. And again, is the weapon going to be a safe queen piece of art (some of the 'tactical' rifles Cerakoted in Multicam are spectacular). Or is it going to be a 'user' rifle, in which case Cerakote will certainly provide the beat protection out of all options, but will eventually wear? I would have no hesitation in recommending Cerakoting a weapon, the only way a weapon won't corrode and still look the same is if it is stainless. Even then it will have marks where it has rubbed etc.
 
Hornet 6 said:
How durable do you expect a product that is applied as a liquid before being baked, to be when rubbed against steel ?

Neil.
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I was under the impression all external surfaces were prepped & coated giving at a few of years with this hard wearing military grade type coating ( or at least a couple).

I've a more than ten year old Tefal frying pan with no wear & I LOVE a fry up! The whole pan was £15 quid, might give them a ring lol.
 
I use Tac Coating near Hereford excellent work but I only have my rifle stocks done and some mounts, the patterns they can offer are very good. But it does wear smooth eventually when rubbed etc.
 
Rusty Gate said:
I was under the impression all external surfaces were prepped & coated giving at a few of years with this hard wearing military grade type coating ( or at least a couple).

I've a more than ten year old Tefal frying pan with no wear & I LOVE a fry up! The whole pan was £15 quid, might give them a ring lol.
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No matter the preparation, the coated item has quite a rough surface, abrasive enough to mark glass, two similar surface rubbing together will show wear almost immediately.
As for your frying pan, make the most of it, mines about 25 years old as has little of the teflon left, that said it still fry ok :)

Neil.
 
Hornet 6 said:
No matter the preparation, the coated item has quite a rough surface, abrasive enough to mark glass, two similar surface rubbing together will show wear almost immediately.
As for your frying pan, make the most of it, mines about 25 years old as has little of the teflon left, that said it still fry ok :)

Neil.
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Paint's measured in micron's, will be rough if not prepped well or equally not flatted between coats I would expect anything to fail. If both surfaces are prepped well, flatted between coats then I would have expected a reasonable ammount of time/use from it after reading the sales info on it. The sales video clips they've used & still use deffinately suggest that.

Just looked at the new Elite series coating promo clip on their site, they definafely still sell/demonstrate the products in the way we expect or would want them to perform. Going to email them direct as it's starting to look like the shooting worlds version of Wilkinson Sword etc, now even closer. Years & five even closer blade's later I should be should be skimming bone from my face :doh:
 
Rusty Gate said:
Paint's measured in micron's, will be rough if not prepped well or equally not flatted between coats I would expect anything to fail.
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As for the base metals surface finish, I don't care how smooth you get the metal, the coating will be abrasive as it contains ceramic solids.
Rubbing coating on coating is like rubbing two pieces of sandpaper together, it will wear very quickly.

Neil.
 
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My rifles are cerakoted and all shows signs of wear and tear on bolts, barrel and mods but this is really just marks, which is fine rather than actual damage / corrosion / coating failure etc.
 
woody said:
I use Tac Coating near Hereford excellent work but I only have my rifle stocks done and some mounts, the patterns they can offer are very good. But it does wear smooth eventually when rubbed etc.
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I saw their gallery last year & some very nice work to.
 
Customer came to us this week with a Cerakoted barrel that was flaking off. I stripped it, bead blasted and then sprayed it with duracoat. 120 sandpaper takes off Cerakote quite easy. I am not convinced that Cerakote is better than Duracoat.
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