Posted: 11/4/2010 4:57:17 PM EDT
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I found this On youtube. Thought some of you would like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DlL1GEIdY |
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IMO there's no need to use the sand. When I've used Duracoat spray on bedliner to finish a grip, I prep and clean it, tape it off, and place it on several sheets of opened up newspaper. If you spray the Duracoat within 2 feet it will finish semi glossy and smooth. If you stand up and spray it over the piece from a standing position (~4-5 feet above the piece), use short bursts of spray, and allow the bedliner to "rain down" on the weapon, it finishes without any gloss and has a texture resembling skateboard grip tape or sandpaper.
I finished my G 22 this way 2 years ago and it's holding up very well. |
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IMO there's no need to use the sand. When I've used Duracoat spray on bedliner to finish a grip, I prep and clean it, tape it off, and place it on several sheets of opened up newspaper. If you spray the Duracoat within 2 feet it will finish semi glossy and smooth. If you stand up and spray it over the piece from a standing position (~4-5 feet above the piece), use short bursts of spray, and allow the bedliner to "rain down" on the weapon, it finishes without any gloss and has a texture resembling skateboard grip tape or sandpaper. I finished my G 22 this way 2 years ago and it's holding up very well. pictures?? |
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Rounded the trigger guard, reduced the width and girth on the grip, and added a dove tail. The texture is holding up pretty well after 2 years, but admittedly I don't carry this piece every day. It's my primary bedside weapon that's stored in a unsafe alongside the backup G27 (my daily carry). Now the G27 has a rounded trigger guard, dove tail, grip reduction, and I added the G23 size grip extension to it and backfilled it with acraglass before finishing it. It's my daily carry. I like the G27's short slide and I like the G23's grip size and 13 round capacity. Mine is the best of both.
More G22 pics: 
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IMO there's no need to use the sand. When I've used Duracoat spray on bedliner to finish a grip, I prep and clean it, tape it off, and place it on several sheets of opened up newspaper. If you spray the Duracoat within 2 feet it will finish semi glossy and smooth. If you stand up and spray it over the piece from a standing position (~4-5 feet above the piece), use short bursts of spray, and allow the bedliner to "rain down" on the weapon, it finishes without any gloss and has a texture resembling skateboard grip tape or sandpaper. I finished my G 22 this way 2 years ago and it's holding up very well. Duracoat makes bedliner? or do you mean Duplicolor bedliner, the stuff in rattle cans at WalMart? |
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IMO there's no need to use the sand. When I've used Duracoat spray on bedliner to finish a grip, I prep and clean it, tape it off, and place it on several sheets of opened up newspaper. If you spray the Duracoat within 2 feet it will finish semi glossy and smooth. If you stand up and spray it over the piece from a standing position (~4-5 feet above the piece), use short bursts of spray, and allow the bedliner to "rain down" on the weapon, it finishes without any gloss and has a texture resembling skateboard grip tape or sandpaper. I finished my G 22 this way 2 years ago and it's holding up very well. Duracoat makes bedliner? or do you mean Duplicolor bedliner, the stuff in rattle cans at WalMart? Thanks for catching me on that...I have duracoat on the brain.  DUPLICOLOR spray on bedliner is what I use.
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"Now the G27 has a rounded trigger guard, dove tail, grip reduction, and I added the G23 size grip extension to it and backfilled it with acraglass before finishing it." Can you tell me more about this? You stick a G23 magazine in a G27 and you'll have magazine hanging out the bottom. There's a polymer adapter that will slide over the magazine and fits flush with the rest of the frame to "adapt" a G23 magazine. You can put on the adapters without making permanent changes to the frame of the 27. So there's one of these under the finish on the grip of my G27: 
I decided to loosen up the inside of those adapters so they'd slide off the magazine easily (the same way they'd drop free from the magazine well on the frame). You can use a caliper to measure the size inside the magazine well on the Glock frame and try to match that on the adapter (taking your time to get it symmetrical and sand it smooth). Then I beveled the edges of the frame and the adapter 45 degrees (so they would hold glass bedding compound), wrapped a magazine in wax paper 3-4 times around, cleaned and prepped everything with brake cleaner (or denatured alcohol), inserted the magazine into the mag well with the adapter on it, and filled/coated everything in acraglass making sure to fill it very well down to the wax paper on the mag. After the glass cures that adapter is a permanent part of the frame. Take out the magazine and remove the wax paper. Make sure a LOADED mag will fit into the mag well and drop free without hanging up. You will have to sand down the outside of the frame like doing body work on a car, and then finish it will the spray on bedliner. If any of the glass compound intrudes into the mag well you'll have to sand it smooth too. Though if you wrapped the mag in enough wax paper the glass bedding compound should be mostly flush with the mag well. If you take your time with all the sanding and stop and look at it once in awhile you can get a half way decent looking piece when you're done. |