been after some black spokes for my motorbike rebuild but they are 3x the price of the regular zinc plated ones.
Been looking at processes for blackening steel and gun blue seems to work really well, however there’s nothing out there for zinc plated steel as far as I know.
People tend to strip the zinc off with muriatic acid but as the black oxide from gun blue isn’t really a rust inhibitor it would be good if I could retain the zinc coating as with road salt etc spokes are prone to rust.
Anyone know of any diy methods?
Been looking at processes for blackening steel and gun blue seems to work really well, however there’s nothing out there for zinc plated steel as far as I know.
People tend to strip the zinc off with muriatic acid but as the black oxide from gun blue isn’t really a rust inhibitor it would be good if I could retain the zinc coating as with road salt etc spokes are prone to rust.
Anyone know of any diy methods?