Annodization or Powder Coat?

[SR_matt]

my mag history isnt really good but im 99% sure that is SS

stainless steel doesnt need a coating on it, if it is all scratched and ugly you should polish it. if you really want it to be colored you can go with powdercoating but for the money and time you are going to spend on it and then getting it to fit right you might as well just buy a ule body

for steel your options are basicaly heat coloring (not bright colors and limited), powder coating (issues have been gone over) and some steels can be colored in salt pots (lots of heat and certian salts give bright colors but it might make the steel a softer temper)

if it was mine i would invest in some buffing wheels (plus bench grinder to use the wheels with if you dont have one) and some bufffing compounds

-matt

[RehKal]

Hrm. That's upsetting because I really like that particular body. I've been told that powder coating is actually pretty good, really hard to remove. A biker friend of mine says that you can hammer on it without hurting it, it'll bend the metal long before it'll do anything to the coating. Just have to prevent the coating from getting inside the body where the valve and bolt goes. Probally block off the feed neck as well.

[SR_matt]

where the rain mates up to the trigger frame and body will also be an issue probably thats the big issue there

-matt

[Freebird]

Hrm. That's upsetting because I really like that particular body. I've been told that powder coating is actually pretty good, really hard to remove. A biker friend of mine says that you can hammer on it without hurting it, it'll bend the metal long before it'll do anything to the coating. Just have to prevent the coating from getting inside the body where the valve and bolt goes. Probally block off the feed neck as well.

also have to mask off where the body meets the rail, If you get powder coat between the rail and body, it may throw off the body alignment enough to where you would start to get bolt stick.
because the bolt/body are no longer in near perfect alignment.

[Mechanic79]

OK, i think I've had just about enough of powder coating from this thread.

I will have to make-do(?) with the "almost white" anodizing.

I have a tough project that I would like to get completed.

[NastyNate]

http://www.houtsenterprises.net/dur_faq.html

Duracoat is something to consider...

[RehKal]

http://www.houtsenterprises.net/dur_faq.html

Duracoat is something to consider...

hmm.. Looks promising. I think I shall try it. Thanks for the link!

[SkinnyHare]

Question about an Automag RT, this seems to be the appropriate place to ask about it for the moment.



Just bought this off ebay today and as you can plainly see it is in bad need of either annodizing or powder coat.

My question is this. How much of these markers like this are steel? Cause the anno doesn't work with steel right? Powder coat may be the only way for me to go with this one...

your trigger frame, body rail, foregrip, foregrip rail, and sight rail are all aluminum and safe to anodize. the main body however, would need to be powder coated if you wanted to make it black... or whatever color you were thinking about. like everyone says you'll be taping off quite bit to prevent it from getting inside the mainbody and where the body rail joins underneath.

what did the previous owner do, dump it in front of a sand blaster or something?

[RehKal]

your trigger frame, body rail, foregrip, foregrip rail, and sight rail are all aluminum and safe to anodize. the main body however, would need to be powder coated if you wanted to make it black... or whatever color you were thinking about. like everyone says you'll be taping off quite bit to prevent it from getting inside the mainbody and where the body rail joins underneath.

what did the previous owner do, dump it in front of a sand blaster or something?

The entire marker was painted with a thick brush on type of paint. All the rails and the body were completely coated in it. the paint is still there where all the parts mate up together.. which leads me to believe powder coating doesn't cause too much trouble on the outside of the body.

To remove the paint they used sandpaper, or something similar. Then went around all the hard edges of the rails to remove the anno from them. I hate how it looks so i'll probally get duracoat so I can paint things the way I like.. and do a better job of it.. The paint on the marker looks like it was brushed on too thick.. and it ran in places.

[SkinnyHare]

you might be able to completely disassemble it and just let it soak in stripper for a bit to get the rest of the gunk off. i bet if you could buff the aluminum afterwards and get rid of the sandpaper gouges it'd still ano quite nicely. if you do end up going for a powder or duracoat i'd like to see how it turns out. i've been thinking of doing that for a couple of my mainbodies, either a powder or PTFE, but i'm still a little hesitant.