Duracoat Glock Slide masking tips?

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Sawyer.N

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Hey all, first thread and new to the forum! I have really enjoyed browsing all the discussions here.

I have some duracoat on the way to my house. I plan on coating my glock 19 slide, and I was hoping to get any tips on masking off the parts of my slide I do not want to coat.

Should I mask off the front sight hole, so that the front sight sits on to the true base of the slide, or will the coating have a negligible effect on the sights height?

Secondly, what is a good way you have found to mask off the Ejector port on your own Glock? It is a very awkward shaped hole to mask off with precision.
 
FITASC, because, my glock has been heavily used, and the finish is beginning to wear away. I just want to keep some kind of a finish on it, and would like to try duracoat. Not to keen on the cerakote, seeing as I do not have the necessary tools.
 
...the finish is beginning to wear away. I just want to keep some kind of a finish on it...
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The actual finish is a metal treatment that converts the top layer of metal to a very hard, corrosion-proof material. The black color is not actually a protective layer--it's mostly just cosmetic.

Even without the black colored overcoating, the gun is still protected from wear and corrosion.
 
Oh, interesting John! Thank you for sharing that with me, glad to learn something new, maybe I should look more into that. I think I will still go ahead with the duracoat for aesthetic purposes. Good to know that the finish is so heavy duty.
 
The Duracoat will look nice but do not put it on too thick and make sure all oil is gone. Duracoat will wear, you will experience holster wear fairly quickly ( make sure it cures for a month before hard use) but that just gives the pistol a personal and well loved look in my opinion.
I used a Duracoat spray can in FDE on one of my AR's that already had a Ceracoat upper, colors matched and finish is looking good after six months and about 1500 rounds through it. Application with an air brush is more desireable than the spray can.
 
That 17L is great there John. Pretty impressive you can do away with that top overcoat layer and still have a very protected slide. I appreciate you sharing that.

Ibmikey, thin coat indeed. Did you put your duracoated items in over inbetween layers?
 
Do you mean in oven? If so, no i did not but i did hang each piece directly in front of the heat discharge tubes on my pellet stove insert in the fire place. That warmed the metald quickly and seems to have provided a good hard surface, and the temp being eight degrees outside there was no danger of the stove shutting down.
 
[QUOTEI bought a used Glock some years ago that was in rough condition with the black over-coating mostly missing from the slide. Using a wire brush I removed the patchy remains of the overcoating and left the grey metal-treatment exposed.

That was in 2007 and there's still not a trace of rust.

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Right there with you on the Glock coating. My Glock 26 has seen a lot of carry and use. It shows some signs of the finish rubbing off on the rear corners of the slide, probably where my pants rub it during ankle carry. I was concerned about that wear and if it would rust. I have never ever seen the first sign of rust on it. I must say that the finish on a Glock slide is tough and durable. I just wished some rifle manufactures could duplicate it, maybe they have with Cerekote and Remington had the Trynite finish. One thing I can't stand is rust.
 
Ibmikey, I did mean oven! Thanks for sharing...8 degrees huh? sounds like Ellunsburg to me! I cant handle that, I work outdoors so I stay tucked away on the west side :)
 
Sawyer, I am very much retired and when the temp goes down i haul a pile of guns out of the gun room and clean, dryfire and try to decide what changes i can make to three or four AR's to make them more fun. If i had an outside job a quick move to Texas would be in order.
Sad thing is i cannot get into the pit where i shoot...we have had snow on the ground for over three months already.
 
If you're going to heat the parts, be careful. There's a plastic liner in the firing pin channel that isn't obvious, even with the slide detail stripped. If you get the slide too hot and melt the channel liner you won't be happy. It's not going to be an issue if you just warm up the parts, but don't go nuts.
 
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