Parkerized Steel

[Phyllis Rhodes]

Do you have to use Cermark on parkerized steel?

Does anybody have a picture of engraved parkerized steel?

Thanks for your help!
Phyllis

[Frank Corker]

Parkerizing (also called phosphating and phosphatizing) is a method of protecting a steel surface from corrosion and increasing its resistance to wear through the application of an electrochemical phosphate conversion coating. Parkerizing is usually considered to be an improved zinc or manganese phosphating process, and not to be an improved iron phosphating process, although some use the term parkerizing as a generic term for applying phosphating (or phosphatizing) coatings that does include the iron phosphating process.


I think this would be a 'suck it and see' to find out what happens. You could try without cermark and just engrave a small dot somewhere discreet to see the result.