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Paint Stripping Guns Gone Wrong


BigStew
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14 hours ago, Tackle said:

Agree, the minute a guns painted, I reckon it's target audience for resale diminishes by about 70%, unless it's reflected in a lower price.

Unless it's something like a unique geartech special, paint jobs are very marmite.

There is a relatively cheap Classic army G3 that i can't pull the trigger on due to the camo job

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1 hour ago, BigStew said:

There is a relatively cheap Classic army G3 that i can't pull the trigger on due to the camo job

You can do the following:

-Offer a disgustingly low amount because of the paint job

-strip the paint and nicely weather the gun

-profit

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1 hour ago, Skara said:

You can do the following:

-Offer a disgustingly low amount because of the paint job

-strip the paint and nicely weather the gun

-profit

Stripping guns are a bugger

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1 minute ago, BigStew said:

Stripping guns are a bugger


I’ll vouch for that,

 

bought a cheap parts job lot and spent an afternoon with thinners, cloth and cotton buds, finding the sweet spot between a sh**ty desert storm rattle-can job (ideal for all the deserts the UK sites have?) and the manufacturers paint 

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1 hour ago, RYoung22 said:


I’ll vouch for that,

 

bought a cheap parts job lot and spent an afternoon with thinners, cloth and cotton buds, finding the sweet spot between a sh**ty desert storm rattle-can job (ideal for all the deserts the UK sites have?) and the manufacturers paint 

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Just a reminder to anyone thinking of stripping paint off your gun, if, unlike the man above your guns got a plastic body, DONT use xylene thinners, you'll be left holding a gearbox covered in molten plastic lol 😂 

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3 minutes ago, Tackle said:

Just a reminder to anyone thinking of stripping paint off your gun, if, unlike the man above your guns got a plastic body, DONT use xylene thinners, you'll be left holding a gearbox covered in molten plastic lol 😂 


very true 😂 probably should have cleared up that they are metal parts in my last post,

 

Please don’t hold me liable if you reck a gun following my dodgey methods 😂

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1 hour ago, Tackle said:

Just a reminder to anyone thinking of stripping paint off your gun, if, unlike the man above your guns got a plastic body, DONT use xylene thinners, you'll be left holding a gearbox covered in molten plastic lol 😂 

 

I feel there's an interesting story behind this post....

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1 minute ago, Adolf Hamster said:

 

I feel there's an interesting story behind this post....

Quite possibly, but thankfully not mine lol

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5 minutes ago, BigStew said:

SIG?


luckily was just a google image search that one 😂 I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to admit it if I had messed up as bad as the sig-smelter photo

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10 hours ago, PopRocket123 said:

That was my first guess but what Sig has a removable slide retention pin?

 

so i was gonna talk about the different features until i browsed the sig catalogue and found this:

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/sp2022-nitron-full-size.html

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17 minutes ago, Adolf Hamster said:

 

so i was gonna talk about the different features until i browsed the sig catalogue and found this:

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/sp2022-nitron-full-size.html

That looks like it. Also I want one

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