Brown or Blue Trigger Plate?

[Craig Wilcox]

Couldn't find much on the forum about it, but:  Are trigger plates normally colored like the barrel, i.e., browned or blued?

My trigger plate, two set-triggers from Davis, does show a lot of marks from grinding to profile.  I would like to file it smooth and either brown it or blue it.  Would this be HC?

Thanks

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I'd say you'd be right if you simply polished it and left if bright, blued or browned.  Another option:  case harden it grey, or in colours, or polished off.

[Eric Krewson]

I have done one set of triggers on a TN gun in brown and one (Kibler) in rubbed back cold blue to a gray, both look good.

On the first picture I broke the back trigger after heating it and bending it, letting it cool and giving it one more tweek cold. I have a new trigger but never got around to replacing my soldered one, it works OK. I made a long scarf joint to put the broken halves back together. Until I took this picture just now I had completely forgotten about cutting off the tang screw and trigger spring screw and browning them.