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Posted: 4/10/2008 12:35:23 AM EDT
| For you guys that have placed your weapon in a household oven to cure, did you just wait for the KG or Durabake to dry and then just place it on the oven racks or will I need to rig a contraption to hold it off of the racks. Just curious as I don't want grilling marks on my gun! |
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I always hang the part from a rig. I had grill marks on a magazine I did when I was testing out the oven, never again. Spend all the time refinishing it, just spend a little longer and make a custom rig for it, I use metal clothes hangers and make sure they are in a safe area on the gun that would hide any potential marking. On a pistol where the slide takedown lever is or through the screw hole on the grip, somewhere hidden. Ar's I use the trigger pin hole and on uppers I use the takedown holes. Haven't done a shotgun yet but will in the next week and will let you know. -TS |
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I've never used KG or Durabake; but I have used GunKote (Brownell's) and it has to be baked. I imagine they're all the same. When I do large parts (slides, lowers, etc.) I take an all-metal clothes hanger, cut one corner, and slide the parts on it and hang it from the top of the oven. For small parts, or parts that you can't really hang due to their size or shape, I take an old cookie sheet and put aluminum foil on it, and lay the parts on the that. Works well. (I've painted magazines. I'll slide the body of the mag onto the metal clothes hanger, and put the base plates on the aluminum-covered cookie sheet because there's no real way to "hang" the base plates. [These were M1 Carbine mags]) Hope it helps. |
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For what it is worth, I use kgcoatings.com gunkote and bake it at 350 for 1 hour. Here is my methods that work great. On smaller parts, I use thin copper welding wire (10.00 small spool) and wrap one end on a metal washer, and the other end thru the part, like twisitng a bread bag shut. On larger stuff like barrels, I wrap one end on the washer and run the wire thru the part and then wrap another washer on the other end. I hang everything, do not let it touch other stuff. I also have 1/8" metal rods (home depot 4.00 for 48") that I run thru mags and slides and receivers that set on the rack bars on the sides of the smoker. I use this smoker in which I modified it to run off of 100# tanks. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3342508 I use this blaster with aluminum oxide before any finishing. PREP WORK IS EVERYTHING. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=47603 After blasting, I use a GOOD quality brake parts cleaner and bake at 550 for about 15 minutes to bake out oil and grease. I will say sometimes you have to do this step 3-4 times to get it degreased completely. Use clean gloves to handle parts and airbrush several, light, uniform coats. In my opinion, from my experience, if you let kgcoatings airdry before baking, about 15 minutes, makes a smoother, even finish. I talked to the guys at kg and they said it isnt necessary, but for me it works better if I do. Hope |
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