The "Abomination" is for sale again

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It's just painted over, right?

Couldn't the paint be removed somehow, without severely damaging whatever the original finish was? Submerge it in some brake fluid for a couple of days. :evil:
 
We'll paint any standard gun any available color combination for $130.
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Who on this Earth would pay money to have this performed to their gun?:confused: Even more baffling , what compelled this individual to do this in the first place?:eek: Abomination indeed!
 
...and you gotta admit...it's better than pink camoflauge.
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Amen.

Still, it's like that ugly mongrel puppy from a puppy mill. You want to rescue the thing and give it a better life, but are terribly worried that would only encourage more...
 
Wow, that looks to me like "Red-Gun Red" and then they suggest blue? Like Blue-Gun Blue? Are they trying to get people in trouble by making real firearms look like training aids???

At least the gaudy pink camouflage schemes don't make them look like official training aids...
 
It might make a good hideout gun for a Mall Santa ! What kills me is that it wasn't even done well ! You would think maybe powder coating ! But Krylon !! jeez ! I am going to go bleach my eyes now ! kevin
 
What the...? I didn't know Earl Schieb was still around. Guess he got tired of painting cars.
 
Looks like ___, smells like ___, it is ____. Fill in blanks with the word "bad" or other appropriate verbage. Such a nice classic gun, especially a 3 inch....you just shudder with horror. I would take it off their hands for 50 dollars if I knew I could clean it up and put the original finish back on it.
 
I think there are multiple abominations out there. I'm pretty sure I saw a model 10 painted like that once before.

The most horrifying thing is that if they keep making them, that must mean that somebody out there is buying them! :what:
 
I’d bid $100 myself for it if I thought the thick layer(s) of paint weren’t covering up some horrific rust pitting/scratches. It would be a perfect candidate for the proposed mineral spirit soak and then a nice hard chrome job. It wouldn’t increase the “collector” value but would make a fine carry gun. It would assure someone a better place in "gun owner Heaven" if they could save that poor thing from those Cretins.

It’s just that the paint could be a cheap cover up for bad treatment by a PO. :what:

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I’d bid $100 myself for it if I thought the thick layer(s) of paint weren’t covering up some horrific rust pitting/scratches. It would be a perfect candidate for the proposed mineral spirit soak and then a nice hard chrome job. It wouldn’t increase the “collector” value but would make a fine carry gun. It would assure someone a better place in "gun owner Heaven" if they could save that poor thing from those Cretins.

It’s just that the paint could be a cheap cover up for bad treatment by a PO. :what:

Matt
 
I painted over an S&W airweight once, but for good reason. I'd paid ten bucks for it to a guy who'd found it sticking up from the lake bottom when the lake had gone down.
The original nickel over the alloy frame and cylinder had turned to a thick crust which could be scraped off with a pen knife. The chrome on the steel barrel was mostly intact.
After cleaning it up as well as possible I saw that the guns surface was rough as a cobb. I figured trying to polish it might cut through the surface hardness of the alloy. These alloys are sometimes hardened by controled temperature drops . sort of a low temperature heat treatment. Don't know much about it so I didn't want to experiment.
I baked on an epoxy finish, at a very low oven temperature. Looked pretty good and as an ultra low cost beater and outhouse gun the appearance wasn't important anyway.

I got rid of it when I saw that two chambers had bulged just enough to allow the fatter.38 S&W cases to chamber.
Those early alloy cylinders may be collectors items but they don't hold up to full power loads for any length of time.
 
I got rid of it when I saw that two chambers had bulged just enough to allow the fatter.38 S&W cases to chamber.
Those early alloy cylinders may be collectors items but they don't hold up to full power loads for any length of time.
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Now you know why it was on the bottom of the lake! :)

I must say though that I don't think it was standard pressure loads that bulged that cylinder...
 
Now I know there is a reason why guns are usually blued steel or stainless.
But if that was the only thing I had when the SHTF I bet it would do its
duty as well as any other.
 
i'd chip in some cash for a ritual destruction -- forget saving the beast, it needs to be destroyed so it can't yield its ugly head again. imagine melting it down to an ugly couple-pound paper weight...
 
painted gun.

Some guys gonna get lucky and talk to seller in person, offer hin a hundred bucks, do a face to face transaction, have it bead blasted, nickle plated, put some decent stocks on it and post its picture next year. The we'll be asking him if he'd be willin' to part with it.
 
I painted over an S&W airweight once, but for good reason. I'd paid ten bucks for it to a guy who'd found it sticking up from the lake bottom when the lake had gone down.
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You do know why people throw guns in lakes right?:uhoh:
 
I must say though that I don't think it was standard pressure loads that bulged that cylinder...
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The S&W company recalled those early alloy cylinders on the US Airforce six shot version built on an M10 sized alloy frame, I think they did the same for the model 37, replacing the cylinders of both models with steel.
If I'd known of that at the time I'd have kept the gun as a curiosity if nothing else.

I figure that some fisherman had dropped the gun while shooting turtles.
My S&W 78g CO2 pistol came to me the same way, a fisherman found it sticking out of the mud at low water.
I painted it as well. The finish on the grip frame was still perfect but the dummy slide had lost all its finish, due to chemicals in the mud. It shoots like a new 'un.
I used epoxy black first then buffed with steel wool and baked on a thicker coat of flat black enamel. That finish has held up well.


I figure the only reason the steel parts of the Mod 37 didn't rust away, the spring had disappeared along with the grips, was an electrochemical reaction due to disimilar metals in an acidic fluid. Disimilar metals in proximity in sea water sometimes show no corosion after centuries. Sometimes the effect is the exact opposite with the charge eating away the metals at an accelerated rate.

A friend found a Winchester Golden Spike 30/30 in the sea while spear fishing. It couldn't have been there more than a few years yet it had succumbed to the oposite effect I mentioned. The steel was rusted worse than a 4000 year old gold plated sword I saw in a museum exhibit. No metal left just iron oxide in the shape of the barreled action with the gold plating still there but in strips over the bulged rusted receiver, like the skin of a rotten fruit.
 
What would be really kewl would be to clamp a quad rail to the barrel and add a laser sight, mini maglight and a red dot to it. Combined with the eye catching color it would be da bomb.
 
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