I just received my new ALG ACT trigger in the mail and I'm not to stoked about the color. I want the entire rifle to be black, the trigger now is a shade of dull grey. Just wondering what you guys use for painting various gun parts? Will a high temperature engine paint work? Is there something more durable? Please give me some suggestions as well as any good preparation techniques, thanks guys.

Any tips at all... Please not all at once!

We basically buy them the color we want up front, or deliberately choose a contrast. Adding a layer of color to them adds thickness to the part which can cause it to malfunction. Many are cast or MIM and they don't plate evenly. My last LPK had a stainless trigger and hammer which I have left natural to earn it's  patina and inspect for cracks.

There are issues with painting tiny parts and paint itself isn't going to stick nearly as well as we want. The best compromise might be Cerakote as it's put on in thousandths of an inch.

Others have plated parts on show guns and found they wouldn't assemble without some further work - the clearance was taken up and it became a friction fit. Be careful what is being asked for, the result might look great and be challenging to shoot.

I would tape off the sear engagement part and paint with a rattle can. Clean the part with some rubbing alcohol so the paint with stick. I have done this to several small parts including a AK receiver

I have done this before without issues using dura coat. Just make sure that you get all the grease and oils off the surface and tape off everything that is not visible from the out side. Do not shoot spray on the any portion that comes in contact with the sear.

This information is from ALG Defense's website.



As explained above, if other than the trigger bow is painted, this will render what contributes to the sharpness of the ACT's trigger pull, and you'd be better off using an ALG Defense QMS instead to save the extra step of needing to apply paint.

Well, it's kind of a Barbie dress-up question and maybe some don't want to get involved.
If I were you, I wouldn't paint....I would stain.
Google "how to blacken steel" for info on how to do it.

Wow, thanks for the info . I assumed I wasn't asking a bunch of derelicts who either thought I would paint the parts while installed on the lower receiver or that I didn't realize adding a coat of anything to an integral/internal part of the gun would compromise it functionality or integrity. I was only interested in any experiences in which a certain type of paint or coating was durable enough to hold up to long time use. In the future I will rephrase my questions to weed out the riff-raff. MY BAD!

Barbie dress up... F U! I know what I like.

anything will work for the trigger, only paint the bow as that is the only exposed part. dont bother taping off areas of the sear and painting the whole thing. just slap it with krylon and be done if the shade variance is bothering you