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01-30-2016, 03:27 PM
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Norinco 213 in Stainless??
Recently bought this Norinco 213 in 9mm locally. The guy was selling for his disabled farther and he told me that his farther bought it in the early 80's and it is in stainless.
It looks quite different from the SS S&W revolvers I have but I don't know if these things also come in chrome or nickel finishes. Can someone tell me an easy and nondistructive way to tell if it is SS or not? Thanks!
If it is stainless, I may refinish it to remove some of the machine marks and straighten the lines a little bit.
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01-30-2016, 03:33 PM
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It looks chromed to me.
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01-30-2016, 08:56 PM
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Took it to the range this afternoon and this thing shoots very accurate, I need to find extra magazines...
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01-30-2016, 09:59 PM
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Norinco made some very nice guns, their 45-1911 is in another thread. Some people in the past had their Walther Olympia copy and they were tack drivers with a red dot mounted on it. Larry
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01-30-2016, 10:38 PM
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I have the exact same gun.
I bought it about two years ago for a little over two hundred bucks. I bought it for a tractor gun which really needs to have a lanyard loop to prevent loss. Additionally I did not have any trouble finding spare magazines for it on the Internet of all places. It will shoot pretty much any FMJ that I put in it. But it does not like hollow point ammunition at all. They are stainless steel.
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01-31-2016, 12:14 AM
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According to the folks at Gunboards, only about 100 stainless 213s were imported. Many more 213s in brushed chrome are in circulation.
Stainless Norinco Model 213 9MM
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01-31-2016, 11:41 PM
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Even those stainless versions I could find online looked like brushed chrome just like mine, yet they were all claimed to be stainless. That's why I want to test for sure...
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08-12-2018, 08:28 PM
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For what it's worth, I just saw one sell for $525 plus commissions in an auction about 10 minutes ago.
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08-12-2018, 08:40 PM
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Will a magnet stick to it? Although a magnet will stick to some types of SS, it does with less force. If the gun is brushed nickle, it will be made of carbon steel and a magnet will stick good.
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08-12-2018, 09:09 PM
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I don’t think Norinco ever made a stainless Tok
Besides that, it looks like someone had it hard chromed. Doesn’t look stainless.
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08-12-2018, 09:10 PM
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I read that Norinco imported 100 of them in the 80's.
Here's a few images from the closed auction
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08-12-2018, 10:13 PM
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That looks chromed also...
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08-12-2018, 11:42 PM
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The one that I have is stainless.
It is a two hundred buck pistol, which is what I paid for it. It will not digest hollow points. I bought it because it has a lanyard loop. I needed a tractor gun that I would not lose thanks to the lanyard loop. This works well for the groundhogs when mowing hay. I would not take it to a gun fight unless it was the only thing that I had.
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08-12-2018, 11:59 PM
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I've got one but it's the much more common blued one... but I do have an ace up my sleeve!
On most T213's including the ones pictured here, it says "MADE IN CHINA" but mine has the much slicker, cooler and far more rare MADE IN CHIAN
It's unique.
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