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March 10, 2010
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Thanks to Maryland's gun laws I've spent a lot of time in the used handgun market lately and I've noticed that there are a lot of stainless steel guns with small dings in them that should have been removed prior to being put up for sale. About 13 years ago I purchased a used Freedom Arms premier grade 454 Casull. It had a small ding on the under side of the barrel, so I called Freedom Arms to ask them what it would cost to have it repaired. The gunsmith told me that they used a brown Scotch Bright pad on their premier grade revolvers and that I could do it myself for under a dollar. I've been using this advice ever since and it works great.
So if you have a ding in your stainless steel gun, or if you want a nice satin brushed finish like Freedom Arms offers, a brown or a green scotch bright pad is all that you need. It's also good for removing rust pitting and other damage before you send that gun off to get plated or blued. The less prep work they have to do, the cheaper your bill will be.
January 22, 2008
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That's good advice! We have discussed the use of Scotch-bright pads in the past. My problem has been finding anything except the green ones.
Dans Club
May 17, 2009
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I found this web site for Granger that has a few 3M pads listed but I can't tell what the grit is. Maybe someone could tell from the site?
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/ecatalog/N-/No-80/Ntt-abrasive+pads?Ns=Brand|0&op=search&sst=subset
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January 22, 2008
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March 2, 2008
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https://www.danwessonforum.com/dwf-content/documents/scotch-brite.pdf
Some of these can be pretty hard to find, sometimes you need to buy a full box
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March 10, 2010
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Jody said:
That's good advice! We have discussed the use of Scotch-bright pads in the past. My problem has been finding anything except the green ones.
The brown and the green one seem to be the same, then again it might depend on the brand. All I know is that the green 3M pads duplicate the Freedom Arms premier finish, and according to Freedom Arms so does the brown ones.
I bought an 8 pack of green 3M pads at Home Depot a few months ago. I used one to remove some serious damage that the Fox Ridge Outfitters did to my TC Contender frame when they did the easy open conversion. It took me 8 hours of rubbing to fix what they refused to fix for me. It looked like they clamped the frame in a vice and used a hammer and a chisel to remove the hammer. I had vice marks on the sides of the frame and a big gouge mark right behind the trigger slot where the chisel slipped when they hit it with a hammer. I guess the gunsmith that they hired from Mcdonalds didn't have the hammer spring removal tool, or didn't know it existed so he grabbed a small wood chisel and a big hammer instead. Prior to sending it to them the gun had never been fired and sat untouched in a collector's safe since 1980, boy was I pissed.
March 10, 2010
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Ah, I see, there's different abrasive textures available. Now we need to figure out which pad creates which finish? I need to find a book on the subject.
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November 17, 2008
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nathan475 said:
I bought an 8 pack of green 3M pads at Home Depot a few months ago. I used one to remove some serious damage that the Fox Ridge Outfitters did to my TC Contender frame when they did the easy open conversion. It took me 8 hours of rubbing to fix what they refused to fix for me. It looked like they clamped the frame in a vice and used a hammer and a chisel to remove the hammer. I had vice marks on the sides of the frame and a big gouge mark right behind the trigger slot where the chisel slipped when they hit it with a hammer. I guess the gunsmith that they hired from Mcdonalds didn't have the hammer spring removal tool, or didn't know it existed so he grabbed a small wood chisel and a big hammer instead. Prior to sending it to them the gun had never been fired and sat untouched in a collector's safe since 1980, boy was I pissed.
Unbelieveable!!! Almost enough to make someone go
Glad to here you were able to fix it yourself.
LB
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