I have ten 5.45mm steel CProducts AR mags that I’d like to get blasted and Duracoated. Who does a good job for a good price with a good turnaround time?
What kind of finish is on them now?
If it is park, you don’t want to blast, that is what you want for a basecoat.
Half of them are some kind of mar-lube or park or something, and the other half are shiny jet black Teflon.
I can recommend the guy who customized my 1911 I got shot with. PM me for his info.
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Thanks for the replies so far. Another question - who has Duracoated magazines? If you do, how do you like them?
Littlelebowski gave me a name - anyone else have any recommendations?
Hoosier Gun Coat did my Browning Buckmark URX, Ernie did a great job but he is not the only one out there http://www.hoosierguncoat.net/
This is a photo of what he did for me:
Kater, you got a future show piece gun in mind to match these with? Pics please…
I can second LL’s recommendation. The guy does fantastic work.
No, quite the opposite. These are for my practice gun (5.45mm AR) and I want to differentiate them from my regular AR mags. Normally I would just Krylon them but I’m pretty sure that Krylon won’t stick to the teflon.
We messed with this some time ago. Duracoat did not last long so we switched to Cerakote. This lasted MUCH better.
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Are you saying that you offer this service?
No, but can recommend people that do.
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I suspect that this is going to start getting expensive for practice mags - perhaps I should just find someone with a blasting cabinet and then Krylon them…
I think this is a good idea.
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I don’t disagree with that assessment. I wanted to say so at first but if you’re just looking to coat mags then it seems excessively expensive.
If you’re not wedded to duracoat and you still wanted the professional job, I’d recommend T. Mark “Gunplumber” Graham’s METACOL III coating. The only downside is that he’s so good he’s always busy and in fact may not be taking new work in the short-term until he can catch up which is why I hesitated to mention it. If you just want to do a bunch of magazines instead of a whole gun he might make an exception.
The metacol coating itself is the best. Unlike paint coatings you don’t get flaking and it is self-lubricating. Similarly it covers evenly so you don’t get light spots on sharp edges.
I’ll get some pictures up for you.
Pictures of Metacol III on FAL mags. I’m sure you can use your imagination for AR mags. Of the the ends are the mags coated in Metacol (left is the “Patina” finish and the right is the “OD” green finish). In the middle is a standard FAL mag for comparison.
The Patina mag has gotten a lot of use, the OD mag a lot less.
Here are some mags that I had Cerakoted.
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i’ve duracoated several PMAGs (takes very well, lasts just fine) but no aluminum ones yet. I do have some tefloned mags. I am planning to duracoat another upper/lower as soon as i get a warm day in TN and will go ahead and duracoat a couple mags while I’m at it.
I’m not blasting them though. just spraying.
I don’t have any steel mags. if you want to send one to test, I’d be happy to hose it down. only colors I have are cobolt blue, magpul FDE, magpul FG
My cheap tail would just wrap some riggers tape around them:cool: