Polishing body

[psychowarden]

I just got a Minimag. Shoots great and feels great, but now I want it to look great. So, what I want to do is get rid of the flat black and polish the sucker to a mirror finish. Sooo...how do I do that?

[sicone]

go to a hardware stor and buy a dremmel polishing wheel and some rouge and polish it assumiing u got a dremmel

[psychowarden]

Of course I have a dremel. What good airsmith in training doesnt. $5 a gun through my school. Its how I make money, and sometimes I get to keep guns that they dont want for free :rolleyes: that only needs a new o-ring.

So whats rouge? The polishing wheel I can do easily. And do I need to strip the grey stuff (powdercoat?)

[sleepingbeauty]

The powdercoating will come off with the buffing wheel, but its easier to try and strip a little off first with some 600 grit sand paper or something. It takes forever with just a buffing wheel, if thats all you have to use.

-Pat

[TheAngryDrunkenRussian]

rouge is a buffing compond helps it make it shinny

[psychowarden]

After a little bit of sanding and some steel wool, here is what its looking like.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/psycho_warden/100_8149.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/psycho_warden/100_8148.jpg

I still need to get down and see about some rouge though.

[angelpena]

you could even use some whitening toothpaste in a pinch

[sleepingbeauty]

Looks like you got most of it. I think if you just give it a good buff it should come out nice. Looks great!

-Pat

[psychowarden]

Sheese Pena, youre everywhere. But here, there is no creepy Cool-Aid guy staring at me.

[SPECK]

I am going to do the exact same thing.

My brand new dremel with 120 pieces will be here wednesday or thursday :)

Then I will purchase some rouge and get it shiny as can be. :cheers:

Dave

[Tunaman]

not gonna happen with the rouge. You need to keep sanding. 220, 400, 600, 1500, 2 or 3000 to make it like a mirror. Wet sand...with water. Then polish on the wheel with green compound for stainless. ;)

[psychowarden]

I figured that one out already Tuna. Its more of a gun metal finish now. But I really like it. Its much better than the flat grey that it was. But at the moment, Photobucket is down, so I will get some pics up once it is online again.

[Phantom_Mag]

Yes tuna beat me to it glad I kept reading or I would have told you rouge wouldnt work on ss. Glad I didnt mention it. Get us some pics.

[Coralis]

Now that you have it stripped down get it plated .... There was a someone with a gold plated mag that just looked awesome , wished i could remember where I saw it .

[psychowarden]

Well here is the end result (for now)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/psycho_warden/DSC_0063.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/psycho_warden/DSC_0062.jpg

[Tunaman]

You are almost there...NOW TAKE IT OFF AND SAND SOME MORE! :D