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Posted: 8/4/2013 10:47:49 AM EDT
| What is the best way to remove paint on the barrel and not damage or do less damage to the bluing and or stainless? |
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SS is SS, so just glass bead blasting is the quick way to get the barrel back to the normal mate finish it started at/to remove the coating.
As for painted over bluing or Parkerizing, understand that both are a surface finish to accept oil to prevent rusting, so in both cases, the paint has soaked into the pores of the bluing/parkerizing. Depending on the paint used, acetone may work well to strip the paint from both the surface and the pores of the finish, where as if the coating was a two part epoxy or two part poly, then then that is not going to be leached out of the pores with any stripper, requiring the bluing or parkerizing to be stripped and redone if that is the finish you are looking for in the end. |
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This depends on what type of paint is on it.
Most spray can type paints and hardware store type paints can be removed with lacquer thinner and a little soaking and brushing with a solvent proof toothbrush. Lacquer thinner will not harm bluing, parkerizing, stainless, or plating. It may damage any type of gun coating type paint UNDER the surface paint. If the paint is an epoxy or other gun type coating you may have to go with a paint stripper, and for that you have to be careful to find one that won't harm bluing or parkerizing. My first move would be to get some lacquer thinner and test a spot on the barrel by keeping it wet with some thinner for a few minutes. If the paint starts to "craze" you can use the thinner to do the whole job. Most common paints will start to dissolve very quickly. |
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