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Posted: 3/29/2004 12:15:01 PM EDT
| Has any one ever tried brownells baking lacquer? Is it any good? |
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A friend and I did 2 shotguns and 3 rifles with it about 6 or 7 years ago. It turned out really well as we baked the disassembled guns in his kitchen oven. One shotgun rode around all during deer season in the rifle rack of a pick up truck. The only damage to the finish was rub marks in the finish where it contacted the rack. The first rifle we did had problems with the finish flakeing around the barrel/receiver joint. We figured out that we had not done a very good job degreasing the rifle and oil had run out of the joint when it was baked in the oven. We got a plastic window sill planter and a couple gallons of 100% pure alcohol. Soaked the parts in the planter with enough alcohol to cover them after cleaning them as good as we could by hand. Then removed them and using rubber gloves to handle the parts and rinsed them off with brake parts cleaner. Hung the parts up supended with wires and painted them. As soon as the paint dried we put them right in the pre heated oven with the parts suppended by wires from the oven rack. The whole key to using any paint or bake on finish is cleanliness. If you think you have the parts clean and ready for painting clean them one more time. |
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