After reading FALARAK's kewl post on the PermaSilk-G refinishing I went ahead and did my own version of his guide, except I used Krylon.



Ok, so in this adventure.  I started with some BEAT down old AR-15 magazines that were laying around the house and I was like "DOOD, these magazines are beat the faq up."  So I did a bit of research and it appeared that the do it yourself-er had a few choices available to him/her.  I decided to go with the Krylon try, as the grand total of the refinish job was about $8.  So how does one go about such a task.  Well, I will relate the steps I took, most based of a super kewl guide on www.AR15.com, except they used Teflon paint which I am assuming is better then Krylon.

1)  First I disassembled the magazines (this is a freebie :p).

2)  I took my belt sander and sanded all of the funky crap that was left of the original finish on the magazines.  I realize that I should have taken a picture...  But I didn't think it was going to turn out.  So I didn't document that part.

3)  I washed the magazines in Simple Green with a tooth brush and then rinsed them out.

4)  I then stuck the magazines in the oven for 30 minuets at 300 degrees to dry out the water used to rinse them.

5)  After being dryed; I hung them up with Zip Ties on my laundry line in my back yard.

6)  I sprayed them with Krylon Gray Primer and then let them sit for the prescribed 2 hours.

7)  I then sprayed the magazines with the colors I desired; in this case Olive Drab and Black.

8)  After letting them sit for 24 hours (more like 12 hours, it was when I woke up :p), I put them in the oven for 30 minuets at 400 degrees to harden the paint.

9)  I did the same process with the magazine bottom plates as well.

10)  I cleaned the springs and replaced all the old school black followers with Magpul No Tilt followers.

11)  Happy with myself I took pictures and then created this little web article to share my findings with the "Cult of the Black Rifle".  Haven't taken them to the range yet, but I imagine they work better now with the Magpul followers then when they were beat up and had the black followers.

I hope this is informative.  Also, you should perhaps try the Teflon paint as well; I didn't know where to get some and so I went this route at the local Ace Hardware.

- Gazukull

Results below!

Wow. you went thru alot of trouble. I just stuffed some newspaper in the follower to cover it and sprayed away. It has held up very well considering it took about 2 minutes to do.