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Posted: 8/1/2008 11:13:41 AM EDT
| Does anyone know of a good way to touch up some scratches on a lower. I put a lower kit recently in my RRA Reciever. The bolt catch went real easily, never once made contact with lower using puch and hammer doing that part. but putting in the roll pin made a good little silver ring around that hole. The trigger guard roll pin was a real nightmare, Took me a while trying to get it in with a hammer and punch, i finally done the squeeze in method with some vice grips as it said on this site. even with a lot of electrical tape around the jaws of the vice grips, the teeth were sharp on that thing and managed to go thruogh and mar the ears a bit. is there anything i can use or do to cover this up and make it look like new again. Thanks in advance. |
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Buy the Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black and the Super Blue. You'll need them both if you actually use your rifle and care about finish maintenance. The black sharpie is a great ghetto alternative, but it won't provide any real protection. Guns are tools. So are your boots. When I came up we polished them both. |
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Kleen Bore makes a cold bluing product called "Black Magic"...I used it on my first lower build and it worked great to cover small scratches...but be advised that if you use this on a ferrous metal you need to put oil on it to stop the rusting action... I tried Birchwood & Casey Al black but it was next to useless compared to the Black Magic. Just my experience... |
| Numerious gun parts places and general machinery stores have roll pin startering punches. They have holes in the end and a long punch section and are cheap. I also grind burrs off each end of roll pin and put a slight taper on the start end, I've also used little pieces of tubing that attach pin and roll pin punch together. I hate to say this but if your going to do gun work, you need about 30 differient punches. Starters,round end. brass or plastic and high quality regular pin punches. then expect to replace at least one of the small ones each week. Can you say Brownells or Midway, I have them on speed dial. A for instance have you taken taper pins out of front sights,you have use a short starter punch, then a round end punch to remove the first requires heavy hits and then light hits to complete removal. With use of lots of masking tape no marks. |
+1 - but it is "slow to take", so you will need to keep a Q-tip (moist with the aluminum black) against the shiney area for 45 minutes or so. I find it best to try and watch an hour-long TV show while periodically rotating the Q-tip against the spot to get a nice dark color that blends. |
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