Parkerizing vs hard chromed slide for corrosion resistance

[Caskalefan]

I am going to get a keltec p32.

Since it is a pocket gun, I need it to be fairly corrosion resistant.

How much better is a hard chrome finish versus parkerizing in this regard? The price difference is basically negligible.

[Shawn Wayne]

Hard chrome has far greater corrosion resistance than parkerizing.

[kartoffel]

I've got a blued Kel-Tec PF9. I take it on sweaty salty fishing trips, or when I just want cheap gun to check in my luggage for theft-proofing: that is, this it the gun that I don't care so much if it falls overboard or gets stolen.

When it rusts ("when" being the key word) I rub it down with 0000 steel wool and some oil. It still works.

[Tomahawk_Ghost]

Your money but I wouldn't worry about it. It's a Kel-tec. I have one and it's a great little gun to have when you can't really carry a gun or on a business trip.

If you need to refinish a few other firearms let me recommend using alumahyde 2. Works great holds on well and is cheap.

[Denali]

Parkerizing offers really, very little in the way of corrsion protection, hard chrome is much better, but it too has a point of failure...

[samuse]

I think the NP3 type stuff is better than hard chrome.