Handgun refinishing

[kzilla]

I just picked up a used S&W 686 for $500. Cleaned it, brought it to the range and fired a hundred rounds through it with a few friends. Nice shooter, everyone loves it, but it's a little scratched up. It's stainless and I could probably buff it out but I want it done right. I usually will spend more on tools to do the job than it would have cost to send it out. The gun is great, I just want to have a conversation piece. Suggestions please.

 

[bumpbailey]

Shine that thing nice. I want to be able to eat off it tomorrow night!

 

[kzilla]

Do you just live here?

I thought I needed a life.

 

[bumpbailey]

I just get things done faster than you. Don't hate!

I went to the gym, voted, walked the dog, impregnated my wife, put an offer in on a house. whaaa-what!

 

[kzilla]

I was busy too!~

I laid down, scratched my nuts, kicked the cat, watched porn, made a ginger bread house out of old cheese, called up old people and told them I was from the Census Bureau but I refused to count them because they were going to die soon, and made a sandwich.
Like the new Avatar?

 

[bumpbailey]

I laid down, scratched my nuts, kicked the cat, watched porn, made a ginger bread house out of old cheese, called up old people and told them I was from the Census Bureau but I refused to count them because they were going to die soon, and made a sandwich.
Like the new Avatar?

LOVE the avatar! Glad you had cheese left for your sandwich after making the g-bread house.

I looked for videos of how-to polish a gun, but no luck. Just gunna have to wing-it.

 

[George D]

Mother's metal polish.

 

[kzilla]

Really

What about the scratches? I want to take them out before I polish it.

 

[Scrivener]

0000 steel wool and elbow grease.

Oh - and time. Lots and lots of time.

 

[RIFLEMAN1000]

Try a scotchbrite it leaves a nice finish on stainless steel it will take out most scratches , but if there deep use wet or dry sandpaper in the fine grits then scotchbrite.



Welcome back Scrivener.

 

[TonyDedo]

I just picked up a used S&W 686 for $500.

Great choice - that's a mighty fine firearm! My first, and the favorite of my herd.

Welcome back Scrivener.

+1!

 

[kzilla]

I have not heard one bad thing about that gun

Until I just said that and now I will. But it is the balls. I just want to make it real pretty. If I can't shoot someone with it at least I can blind them with the reflection.

 

[kzilla]

Where do I get elbow grease, cause I'm all out.

0000 steel wool and elbow grease.

Oh - and time. Lots and lots of time.

Damn I wish I had kids. "Go clean daddy's guns, what, yes again. And pick your mother up another bottle of Peppermint Schnapps."

 

[kzilla]

I haven't used mother polish since it came out in the seventies.

Mother's metal polish.

I didn't take out the scratches, (I'll save that for a cold day in January), But I did use the mother polish. It really looks great. Thanks for the tip.

 

[bumpbailey]