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5/28/2013 12:18:37 PM EDT
A neighbor (retired fed LEO) kept a Win 1300 Defender somewhere he shouldn't have (but he didn't know a pipe would leak onto it while he was out of town). He was sick. Even the magazine tube cap was rusted. Luckily the receiver is aluminum, so it (and bolt, trigger group,  etc) was untouched. When I saw it, I said I could fix that. He said "How much will it cost?". I said "just cost of materials used... it's a hobby, not a livelyhood for profit". So I did my best. It became my weekend project. Just waiting on a new bead ordered from Brownells, because the existing bead broke off during removal. I'll let it harden a week before reassembly.  

Before:





After sanding off heavy rust, blasting out pitting with aluminum oxide, spray with Dura Fil, wait 6 hrs & sand smooth, spray again, wait 6 hrs & sand, spray again, wait overnight & sand again (this fills in all the pitting)... then duracoat with matte black. It looks better now.



5/28/2013 12:25:45 PM EDT
[#1]
Great job!
5/28/2013 2:45:06 PM EDT
[#2]
Good job! Mossberg 835?
5/28/2013 3:14:02 PM EDT
[#3]
Quoted:
Good job! Mossberg 835?


Thanks. Not a Mossberg, it's a Winchester 1300 Defender... pistol gripped, 18" barrel, 12ga pump. After I install the new bead sight and reassemble it, I'll edit-to-add a pic of the entire gun. Even the sling clip on the pistol grip was all rusted. I had to seperate it with two small vise-grips to get it free of the grip. It wasn't pitted like the barrel & mag tube, so it just got sanded & duracoated (no Dura-Fil). Just hoping the Duracoat holds up when I squeeze it back together to put it back into the holes in the grip.
5/29/2013 5:18:55 AM EDT
[#4]
Nice job.

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5/29/2013 5:21:12 AM EDT
[#5]
Man that's a lot of bad rust, awesome job
5/29/2013 5:25:55 AM EDT
[#6]
Nice work. Don' t you hate all the waiting for the Durafil?

Now just go put an XS Big Dot on there now.
5/29/2013 3:24:15 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
Nice work. Don' t you hate all the waiting for the Durafil?


Thanks. You got that right about the waiting. First time I've used Durafil... never Duracoated anything that pitted before. Instructions say "ready to sand in 4 hours". Nope, more like 6 (and it was low humidity & warm weather too).    My wife refused to let me put it in the kitchen oven to speed up the curing time. It took 3 coats to fill in all the pits.

Now just go put an XS Big Dot on their now.


Not mine, or I would.