Posted: 4/26/2009 4:10:38 PM EDT
| One of my Glocks is showing her age and I think she needs a make over so to speak. Is refinishing/painting left to the pros? We've seen the lower painted all the time, but can the slide be a DIY project? If so, what's the best way to go about doing this? What are the best products out there? Steps? Anyone have any pics? |
I refinished mine at home. I sand blasted the slide using a cheap home depot sand blasting gun and hooked it up to my compressor. i then filled a 5 gallon bucket with fine white silica sand again from home depot and holding the stripped slide with pliers blasted off the old finish out in the yard. I got some parkerizing solution and a small stainless pot and heated it up on the kitchen range. Degreasing is a must. It was very easy to do. The nice part is new sights are cheap and i installed them with a plastic punch.
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Deosn't Glock offer to refinish slides? If they did that would be nice, wouldn't have to worry about someone blasting the tennifer off. I just want it lto look like the day I got her. Glock offers it for around $50 last I checked a while ago. It's the shipping and the waiting that would annoy me, would rather do it myself and learn (hopefully without messing it up). |