I just use it like normal until accuracy eventually diminishes and then repeat the clean & wax. Hopefully Scott will return and give his take on it.
If waxing the bore is good, would ceramic coating the bore be even better?
This is certainly an interesting thread. I wonder what effect plating the bore with titanium nitride would have?
Too abrasive one would think ... while HARD it still is ceramic and micro abrasive.A good lapping / polishing and then a hard wax to fill micro imperfections and surface fretting is what cuts Down On Abrasion creating less fouling.
QuoteToo abrasive one would think ... while HARD it still is ceramic and micro abrasive.A good lapping / polishing and then a hard wax to fill micro imperfections and surface fretting is what cuts Down On Abrasion creating less fouling.Sounds logical Scott. I've got an atrocious M-Rod barrel around here somewhere that would make the perfect test barrel. When I locate it, and when I get around to it I will do a base line naked, clean, then wax, then strip and clean, then ceramic coat. Then compare results of the three. I'm thinking that while being harder it would be less micro-abrasive. Why? Compare water beading and water sheeting qualities of wax to ceramic. Better water management ability was one of the factors that helped the progression from wax to polymer coatings, and now to ceramic coatings. Water is retained on a surface and refuses to sheet off because of water tension: the greater the surface area (read "abrasiveness") on which to cling the greater the retention of water. If then water sheets better off of ceramic than wax (and ceramic ABSOLUTELY excels beyond wax at shedding road grime "fouling") then shouldn't it follow that ceramic produces a smoother finished surface with less surface area than wax and therefore MIGHT out-perform wax? This is my hypothesis. As for starting a new thread, I certainly will when I test it.
Hey everyone what would be the approximate drying time for say Johnson’s paste wax?