Last week I was buying some autoparts, and I needed a high temp paint to cover the welds on my exhaust (last hunting trip I literally broke every exhaust hanger). I grabbed these and noticed they had spray and bake instructions for use off vehicle.
My Browning buckmark has needed a make over for the last 20years, so it got to be the first test subject.
I did no surface prep besides removing all the old spray paint that was on it and degreasing. I didn't even rough up the surface any.
I did the barrel late last week, following the instructions on the cans for both primer and paint.
The only deviation I made was to bake the second time at 350 for a half hour, twice. I'm not sure where temper can be damaged so I didn't go up to the 600 degrees they recommend. If anyone knows how high is safe I'll run it up to that temp.
I didn't get around to taking apart the pistol (it still had my 10" barrel on it) till today so the slide didn't get done till this afternoon. In the meantime the barrel has been banging around my bench while I worked on other projects, and I knocked it off when I was taking down the TV. No damage to the finish, but the edge where it hit the concrete got a slight dent.
This suggest to me that it's not completely hardened, that or it's softer than the other "ceramic" coatings I've used.
I did take the back edge of a case (it's what was handy lol) to the flat of the barrel to see if I could scratch it. I'm sure I could of course, but I applied more pressure than it takes to scratch thru spray paint, and the poorly applied cerakote on my muzzleloader, and it disrupted the matte finish but didn't scratch thru.
I did the slide this afternoon using a much lighter pair of coats, rather than the 3 the cans suggested. Same heat curing procedure. I reassembled the pistol after it cooled.
Well see how the whole thing holds up, I'm gonna toss it in the bucket with my muzzleloader stuff and take it with me when I go to the range next.
Oh I soaked the barrel in CLP when I finished it last week, which will melt spray paint no problem, and there appears to have been no effect. I soaked the whole gun tonight. I'll try some cleaning chemicals later this week.
So far it's a nice option for me, getting cerakote or any of the other "good" gun coating products out here is really expensive. I'm going to try a different color on my new savage build if this works out.
My Browning buckmark has needed a make over for the last 20years, so it got to be the first test subject.
I did no surface prep besides removing all the old spray paint that was on it and degreasing. I didn't even rough up the surface any.
I did the barrel late last week, following the instructions on the cans for both primer and paint.
The only deviation I made was to bake the second time at 350 for a half hour, twice. I'm not sure where temper can be damaged so I didn't go up to the 600 degrees they recommend. If anyone knows how high is safe I'll run it up to that temp.
I didn't get around to taking apart the pistol (it still had my 10" barrel on it) till today so the slide didn't get done till this afternoon. In the meantime the barrel has been banging around my bench while I worked on other projects, and I knocked it off when I was taking down the TV. No damage to the finish, but the edge where it hit the concrete got a slight dent.
This suggest to me that it's not completely hardened, that or it's softer than the other "ceramic" coatings I've used.
I did take the back edge of a case (it's what was handy lol) to the flat of the barrel to see if I could scratch it. I'm sure I could of course, but I applied more pressure than it takes to scratch thru spray paint, and the poorly applied cerakote on my muzzleloader, and it disrupted the matte finish but didn't scratch thru.
I did the slide this afternoon using a much lighter pair of coats, rather than the 3 the cans suggested. Same heat curing procedure. I reassembled the pistol after it cooled.
Well see how the whole thing holds up, I'm gonna toss it in the bucket with my muzzleloader stuff and take it with me when I go to the range next.
Oh I soaked the barrel in CLP when I finished it last week, which will melt spray paint no problem, and there appears to have been no effect. I soaked the whole gun tonight. I'll try some cleaning chemicals later this week.
So far it's a nice option for me, getting cerakote or any of the other "good" gun coating products out here is really expensive. I'm going to try a different color on my new savage build if this works out.
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