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Lately I've been getting polish crazy with my barrels and I was wondering if anyone polishes their tenifer or melonite barrels. I thought about it, but it seems like that would take the protective coating off. Am I wrong?
The black on a Glock is just a blackening not tenifer. Tenifer is silver in color and very hard. Glock says it's harder than an industrial diamond. You would need one heck of a polish.
I clean a Glock and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The black finish on a Glock is NOT the Tenifer finish. Polishing the black off will just leave you with shiny silver. As I understand it, the Tenifer is actually a hardening of the surface of the metal.
Ever notice that even well-holster worn Glocks don't rust?
I polished off the black Melonite on the barrel of my S&W M&P. It turned out a bit of a titanium color. No one has said it's ugly, few have even noticed.
Note: I didn't really do it for the bling-factor. The way the barrel hood is oriented on the S&W makes it much more prone to wear is noticeable than the way the barrel hood on a Glock is. Polishing the barrel and hood eliminated the noticeable wear pattern and still isn't reflective.
That's interesting. Well, if the black if just superficial I'll polish it. I'd rather it be silver anway. I wonder if that would void my warranty though, hmm...mabye just on the barrel.
The feed ramp is smooth, but I want it smoother. I'm still not sure if I want to do this though because I am thinking about trading my G17 for an M&P9. I do realize that it will decrease the value. The gun dealer would take one look at it and say "What the hell happened?"
Quote: "If it was to be polished, it would have been polished."
But by that same logic if anyting on the gun was to be better it would be so don't change it because its already Glock Perfection, the best gun EVAR!
No, its not that things can't be better, but polishing the feed ramp of a working weapon is asking for trouble. You have nothing to gain because it already works, and everything to lose BECAUSE IT ALREADY WORKS! seriously leave it alone, this can only end poorly. Imagine if Michelangelo kept "improving" David, it would just be a pile of marble dust
Being that I only have about 2 years of experience with handguns I will listen to this advice, as I asume you people have much more experience than me. Thanks guys.
I polished the barrel on my G30 with a dremel adn mothers mag wheel polish. I decided to since it was wearing off due to firing. It's been roughly a year since and absolutlel no pitting or discoloring what so ever. This is the gun that stays in a holster with me at all times, and is shot alot.
Looks great, also did the smasll tab of a slide stop, my thumb was rubbing it off anyway.
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