Hammer
Regular Member
When my son returned from his hitch with the Navy, he didn't have a gun in his house. I set him up with one from my place so he would have SOMETHING, as he didn't settle in a very good neighborhood. (Are there "nice" neighborhoods anymore?)
So time has passed and he has improved his home protection tools. The ol' truck gun came back to me, much the worse for wear. I sent him my KelTec P-11, parkerized slide finish. I mentioned that it still needed a "fluff & buff"
Apparently he thought the metal looked so much nicer without a finish, he just removed it all. Of course, it all rusted up pretty quickly.
I wish I had taken a "before" pic. It was pretty crusty. I decided a blued finish was more to my liking than phosphated, so polished it best I could. some of the pits were too deep to pull out. It turned out OK anyway. I still have a couple small parts to put in it, but it runs and is cheap enough not to have to worry about.
There is an anomaly no one but a true KelTec-y might pick out. Do you see it? And no, it's not the missing front sight. The new one is among the parts on order.
So time has passed and he has improved his home protection tools. The ol' truck gun came back to me, much the worse for wear. I sent him my KelTec P-11, parkerized slide finish. I mentioned that it still needed a "fluff & buff"
Apparently he thought the metal looked so much nicer without a finish, he just removed it all. Of course, it all rusted up pretty quickly.
I wish I had taken a "before" pic. It was pretty crusty. I decided a blued finish was more to my liking than phosphated, so polished it best I could. some of the pits were too deep to pull out. It turned out OK anyway. I still have a couple small parts to put in it, but it runs and is cheap enough not to have to worry about.
There is an anomaly no one but a true KelTec-y might pick out. Do you see it? And no, it's not the missing front sight. The new one is among the parts on order.
