Is Sigs nitron nickel finish a nickel plating like the old nickel plated guns or just nickel in color?
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While I have no idea what "bullshit" means vis-a-vis description of steel (bullshit is a soft, steaming pile), Sig stainless is not a finish; it is, if you will, raw, naked stainless steel. It is softer than the rather hard black anodization of the alloy frames and is therefore more susceptible to being marked by other objects, polished by holster wear, and dinged by contact with hard objects. For example, a scratchlike contact of a brass rivet with the black anodization will probably make a brass surface mark that can be cleaned off, whereas that same contact with stainless will perhaps leave a mark in the steel.
But a rather simple bead blasting makes Sig stainless look brand-new.
too many folks have showed me their "stainless" sigs 5+ years old and the finish looks like shit. not sure if that's corrosion or what, but the finish becomes uneven. same process i've seen on multiple different sig models. perhaps sig has corrected the issue recently; i'm not sure. i've confirmed this observation by purposefully inspecting older sig consignment pistols and seen the same phenomenon, especially if i look closely. ultimately it probably has no effect on function and agree can probably just be re-finished and easily fixed. however, for this reason i would prefer to go w a standard nitron finish Sig than the stainless. as usual, YMMV.
http://www.sigsauer.com/CatalogProductDetails/1911-compact-nickel.aspx "nickel nitron finish"
sig has all sorts of custom shop runs most of which don't retail in Mass. The best thing to do, if the OP really wants to know, is call sig and ask! You have to be date and model specific--beyond just the series number, e.g. 226, 229.
They've changed their finishes over the years too. They used to make nickel teflon finish. then there was just "nickel" and now they say "nickel nitron". there are endless variations of metal finishing and the OP has a great question!
note that most (all?) the slides are stainless and the frames are traditionally aluminum but also come in stainless, which nickel frames are stainless. So when you get that "heavy" all stainless or all nickel pistol, it's the frame that changes metal adding more weight.
and they also have polymer lowers too of course.
They've changed their finishes over the years too. They used to make nickel teflon finish. then there was just "nickel" and now they say "nickel nitron". there are endless variations of metal finishing and the OP has a great question!
note that most (all?) the slides are stainless and the frames are traditionally aluminum but also come in stainless, which nickel frames are stainless. So when you get that "heavy" all stainless or all nickel pistol, it's the frame that changes metal adding more weight.
and they also have polymer lowers too of course.
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