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Posted: 8/28/2009 5:18:58 AM EDT
| I think I decided on using gunkote to refinish an 870. My question is do I need to hang the parts in my oven when baking them or can I just put them on a cheapo non stick pan? |
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I think I decided on using gunkote to refinish an 870. My question is do I need to hang the parts in my oven when baking them or can I just put them on a cheapo non stick pan? I hung them from the racks. Make sure you degrease the wire you use so that none of the oil leaches to the gun kote. Reason I hung the parts was so there was no hot spots from sitting on a backing sheet. J- |
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I hang all mine. I use degreased (and ultimately coated) wire for most stuff and then welding wire (from a wire feed mig welder) for the really small holes on small parts.
Yesterday was actually the only exception. I was baking a remington 514 and instead of setting up something to hang from, I stacked four pieces of steel (to disburse the heat) and put the tip of the front sight (rifle upside down on it) and hung the action end from a wire. I figured I was going to recolor the tip of the sight anyway. It actually looks pretty good, paint is intact at the tip. On another note, relatively fresh wine corks are perfect for both sides of the barrel on a 12 gauge. I just did a mossberg and my wife suggested it. Worked great. I was able to get the one on the breech side to go all the way in to almost flush so that it wouldn't stick out and get in the way. Abrasive blasted with them in place and then baked them in place. To hang the barrel end, I drove a piece of wire into the middle of the front cork. I have pictures somewhere. |
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On another note, relatively fresh wine corks are perfect for both sides of the barrel on a 12 gauge. I just did a mossberg and my wife suggested it. Worked great. I was able to get the one on the breech side to go all the way in to almost flush so that it wouldn't stick out and get in the way. Abrasive blasted with them in place and then baked them in place. To hang the barrel end, I drove a piece of wire into the middle of the front cork. I have pictures somewhere.[/quote] With a barrel corked just make sure that there is a hole so the air can escape , else the corks could get blowed out. I used rubber stoppers and that's what they did to me. ON second thought cork is pores and the air could flow past the pores so may be this advice is not so good.CEW |
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