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Unread 07-21-2017, 03:16 PM   #16
Sergio Natali
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Originally Posted by padredan View Post
unc's union switch & signal served him well ,as did my Remington rand , both are war horses to be passed down . a bit of a back story I serve as a chaplain to the men and women residents of a war veterans home and have for nearly 15 years while recently talking with one of the female world war two residents , she asked me did I carry a .45, told her yes I did while in viet nam , I told her a Remington rand . then she told me ,well I worked at singer for awhile and inspected the pistols there and then went to union switch and signal ,where she inspected them . I showed her the picture and she told not all had been parkrised , next few days I will take it by for her to look at .
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FWIK the parkerizing machinery was installet at the US&S plants for Carbine components only in August 1943 unfortunately it was too late for use on pistols because of the impending contract callcellation, that's why all US&S pistols were finished with DU-LITE which has kind of a blue tint to it.
If you lay a "parkerized" pistol next to a real US&S in good light, you'll see the difference.

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