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Posted: 5/1/2008 3:16:59 PM EDT
| I have a stainless varmit rock river upper on the way, i want to get rid of the silver finish, can i paint the stainless?? |
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Just remember that your barrel gets hot... hot enough to burn off most paint. Additionally, many paints won't hold up to the solvents used to clean a rifle. Your best bet is a finish designed for firearms (i.e. Duracoat) or a bake on finish. With that said, high temp barbeque paint would probably work fine. Wally Mart has it for less than $4 a can. My $0.02, - AG |
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DuraCoat+Beta Mag = noxious fumes and billowing black smoke. I couldn't figure out what was going so I kept shooting.  Maximum Smudgekins LOLThe rifle was MagPul OD Green and black furniture. It looked pretty good until I cooked it. ETA: Can you? Yes of course. DuraCoat sticks to 
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No you can't blue or parkerize stainless.  You can black oxide, or if you want a durable self applied color, use a ceramic based paint. If you are going to coat the bbl, blast it first with a coarse compound so that it has a frosted appearance, and that there will be enough "tooth" for the finish to adhere to. |
| The best I've used is Alumihyde from Borwnells. You don't have to bake it. You do have to be patient. It dries to the touch in a few hours but fully cures in about 2 weeks. It's tough as nails when cured. I used it on my stainless bull barrel and several other guns. Never disappointed. |
You might be satisfied with a sandblast job on the barrel, which will give it a gray matte (non-reflective) finish. Or, you could have it blasted, then paint it with one of the bake-on coatings, like 'Dark Parkerizing or Satin Black. What you cannot do is have it blued or Parkerized. |
Maybe wrong place. www.ar15.com/forums/forum.html?b=6&f=19 |
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Several courses of action. YOu don't need the whole barrel sandblasted, just the part that shows. Stop of the bore, protect the crown at all costs. Sandblasting alone will get rid of the shine and make it appear a dull gray that blends in with either rural or urban environments well. Once sandblasted, you can shoot on a few coats of Molyresin or other baked on finish. That works well. I once sent a stainless Armalite AR-10 barrel to Olympic Arms to be "black oxided". Took a few weeks, until they next time they ran a batch. Cost was about $125 total, if I remember correctly, but that some 7 or 8 years back. A nice, dead flat finish. Personally, if it was mine, I'd just sandblast from the gas block or FSB on up to the muzzle and be done with it. |
Yes and no. Yes, if it is a polished surface, such as most blued or stainless. No if it is a rough surface, like anodized aluminum receivers or parkerized steel. If so, just thoroughly degrease and then you are ready for Molyresin application. |
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