Question for you seasoned cerakoters. I’ve always coated my barrels by themselves then install on the action, especially actions that come with nice surface treatments like DLC, those don’t get cerakote. No matter what I do, I always get marks, basically a change in the sheen of the cerakote, when I clamp them to torque the action on. I’ve tried toilet paper tubes, paper, card stock, tape, etc., along with a few of the popular vises out there. Always marks. On my rifles, this doesn’t bother me. For the barrels I coat for buddies, I want them to be perfect.
From a search, I see a lot of you guys coat the barrel after it’s been installed on the action. My question is how do you tape it off at the receiver face? Are you taping around the OD of the receiver and blasting / coating the little portion of exposed rail and face of the receiver along with the barrel, or do you carefully tape off the receiver face around the barrel?
Thanks in advance.
From a search, I see a lot of you guys coat the barrel after it’s been installed on the action. My question is how do you tape it off at the receiver face? Are you taping around the OD of the receiver and blasting / coating the little portion of exposed rail and face of the receiver along with the barrel, or do you carefully tape off the receiver face around the barrel?
Thanks in advance.
