A Black Oxide finish if one were so inclined? If so how? Will acetone work?

Anything caustic.

Coke, toilet bowl cleaner, naval jelly. It all works.

The standard practice here is "coking"

thank you

Absolutely.

Be aware that if you're removing black ox from carbon steel, it's going to oxidize much quicker. Are you looking to game your putter raw?

I was but apparently the volume of rust is going to be staggering. It is the new Ping ZB and I have no desire to ruin the putter.

Forgive me, I'm not familiar with the Ping ZB -- is that even black ox? It's a stainless putter... and typically black oxide doesn't do very well on stainless (it ends up kinda chalky).

If you were to strip whatever finish is on it, it's not going to rust anyway (so long as it is 303 stainless).

yeah they are calling it a black satin finish and it is 303 stainless. I am wondering what would happen to it if I did "coke" it. really would hate to have wasted 250.00 if the putter gets ruined.

Wow this thread brings me back to the days of my old scotty cameron black putter that i had to care for like a child...baby oil, wipe it down, tuck it in...wow am I glad to not have to deal with that anyomre...i have moved on to an odyssey 2 ball, but i put that scotty in a bucket of coke overnight and steel wooled it until it was a plain metal putter

Pardon my ignorance, but if I do this do I need to remove the head from the shaft or can I just plop the whole thing into a bucket of coke?

yea you can, if you have a small enough putter, you can just use a ziploc bag and put it in there

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yea just make sure that if you leave the shaft of, you close up as much or the bag as possible and lean the putter against soemthing so it wont tip and spill...good luck

I'm thinking that's not a black oxide finish. And coking it will leave with you a black, sticky putter.

Maybe this is a thread for ping experts.

Unless you are talking about some reaction between the coke and the material off the putter, it will not be sticky. Leaving a putter in coke will not leave it sticky

I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I'm nearly positive that Coke will not remove the Ping ZB finish. It is not black oxide, it's black nickel chrome...which needs to be stripped somehow. I know it's an extra tedious project, and refinishing people will charge extra for the job. It can't just be soaked in something like a black oxide or oil can would be done.

I was saying nothing will happen. You'll take it out and your putter would be sticky (from the sugar left on the putter from the coke) if you didn't rinse it off.



I was thinking the same thing.

I'm also sure there is someone locally who can remove the finish.