stevesmith7
February 17, 2005, 11:30 PM
Thought I'd share my first Gun Kote experience.
Recently I bought an old Smith 1000 auto shotgun from another THR member. It cleaned up just fine but as advertised one side of the barrel was quite rusty. I took to it with emery cloth and steel wool but there was quite a bit of pitting down the entire length. I had another project that needed refinishing as well so I bought a can of gun metal blue Gun Kote, the KPhos precoating, and a few needed tools from Harbor Freight.
The instructions say you should sandblast with 120 grit Al Oxide as a first step. Now I'll admit not looking really hard but I have no idea where to find this material. The pitting was pretty bad anyway so I decided to sandblast with....sand. Something I knew how to get. After some serious blasting I smoothed things up a little with some sandpaper and wool and did the KPhos dip. The next day I fired up the new airbrush, coated just fine and off to bake. Now I don't know how many of you can get a 30" barrel in your kitchen oven but I can't so I had to come up with something. See the attached picture. Gas grill, length of vent pipe and a way to hang the barrel and I was in business. Grill lid even had a thermometer. It easily got to 375 as required. Bottom line this stuff works great. Final result is very nice, next stop that old 870.
Steve
Recently I bought an old Smith 1000 auto shotgun from another THR member. It cleaned up just fine but as advertised one side of the barrel was quite rusty. I took to it with emery cloth and steel wool but there was quite a bit of pitting down the entire length. I had another project that needed refinishing as well so I bought a can of gun metal blue Gun Kote, the KPhos precoating, and a few needed tools from Harbor Freight.
The instructions say you should sandblast with 120 grit Al Oxide as a first step. Now I'll admit not looking really hard but I have no idea where to find this material. The pitting was pretty bad anyway so I decided to sandblast with....sand. Something I knew how to get. After some serious blasting I smoothed things up a little with some sandpaper and wool and did the KPhos dip. The next day I fired up the new airbrush, coated just fine and off to bake. Now I don't know how many of you can get a 30" barrel in your kitchen oven but I can't so I had to come up with something. See the attached picture. Gas grill, length of vent pipe and a way to hang the barrel and I was in business. Grill lid even had a thermometer. It easily got to 375 as required. Bottom line this stuff works great. Final result is very nice, next stop that old 870.
Steve