Upper / Lower Touch Up method?!

[user]

Hello ya'll

Like lots of folks, I have a stick or two that I beat the crap outta.

And one or two that are still really nice n smooth. Anyone find a great way to touch up the anno on uppers and lowers that works well and stays put?

The birchwood casey pens never really seem to work.

Thanks

[SomeOtherGuy]

Personally I use an ordinary black Sharpie marker for minor dings that I don't want shiny. If I had something really beat up I would use any quality spray paint to paint over the whole thing. Duplicolor auto engine paint is cheap, readily available, and in my use more abrasion resistant than the normal Krylon and Rustoleum spray paints. (They don't make many gun type colors, but do make flat black and a matte gray "Cast coat iron") If you want something both pretty and durable, I would look into Cerakote.

[Hump66]

I use the Birchwood Casey Alumablack in a bottle. I just apply it with a q-tip. Seems to do a good job.

[MistWolf]

I use Birchwood Casey's Aluminum Black for small nicks & scratches

[Airhasz]

Try degreasing with alcohol before touching up.

[markm]

You could try your eye liner. 24 hour lucious lash probably holds up pretty good. :sarcastic:

[sac]

Thats funny

[TacticalSledgehammer]

+1 for the black sharpie

[SpankMonkey]

Black paint pen lasts about 2 months with mod to heavy use or years if you don't finger **** your gun a lot.

[Khackee]

Sharpie wide tip, not fine point for nicks and scratches.

[BufordTJustice]

Sharpie 500 degree industrial for when I'm so inclined.

...or Revlon with the expanding brush. Keeps the clumps to a minimum. ;)

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[ColtSeavers]

Another black sharpie user here.

[Hmac]

I guess I don't worry about nicks or scratches much unless they interfere with function.

[MistWolf]

Just because I touch up the nicks & scratches doesn't mean I worry about them. Just something to do instead of watching TV

[quaesitor logica]

Birchwood casey black works very well if you use it the same day the ding occurs. degrease the ding , apply birchwood with a q-tip and the scratch will disappear, provided your weapon is black:)

[WaldoOneFive]

I use Birchwood Casey's Aluminum Black for small nicks & scratches

Same here, with good results. I usually do more than one application and I find that it lasts a while.

[jpeezy]

Rattle can

[discreet]

electrical tape :)

[Endur]

Blood

















Sharpie is probably the easiest and cheapest avenue.

[sava]

I've used a black sharpie for minor touch ups on my bolt guns and spray paint of my AK's.

[Soopreme]

I never liked how you can see the sharpie markings. It gives off a slight browinsh tint. I had a lower that I bought that was beat up and I just took it to my local cerakote guy and he re did it fresh black for $30. Worth it.

[Airhasz]

I never liked how you can see the sharpie markings. It gives off a slight browinsh tint. I had a lower that I bought that was beat up and I just took it to my local cerakote guy and he re did it fresh black for $30. Worth it.

That slight brownish tint always gets in the way when I'm running my weapon...

[Blankwaffe]

I use the black paint pens for small dings.If I have alot of bright metal showing I use the flat black stove paint to cover the area,particularly the steel components.

[TexasGunNut]

That slight brownish tint always gets in the way when I'm running my weapon...

I'm with you Airhasz, at my age, if I have to run too hard I find I have to ditch my tighty-whiteys more often than not......

[T2C]

High temp BBQ grill spray paint seems to work OK if you want to keep them black.

I only spray rifles and carbines when I want to change the color.

[Airhasz]

I'm with you Airhasz, at my age, if I have to run too hard I find I have to ditch my tighty-whiteys more often than not......

:sarcastic:

[Iraqgunz]

I really don't focus on that. Half my regular AR stash is painted (that's why God made Krylon) and the others I don't worry much about.

[blade_68]

24834
scratch fixed, if don't match rattle...rattle and spray again.
why paint because I can. Dark colors suck in the southern sunshine. ;)
I'll worry when rifle has as many scars as I do.

[Blak1508]

I use dirt. Nothing gets that FDE color like flat dark earth. Yup black marker, I also have a furniture touch up pen for dark oak and what not, it works pretty good, but the scratches are also kinda sexy so I kinda let them show. Chicks dig them and so does the M4 population.

[hatidua]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/hatidua/paint_zps098474bd.jpeg

[BOSAR15]

Sharpie

[buckkiller35]

I use a black sharpie for the smaller spots.

[SpecWired]

Green, Brown and Tan cans of krylon. Go nuts. Done.

Black guns that are worn look beat. Camo'ed rattle can jobs that look worn are cool.

[1911-A1]

It's a good excuse to get a few cans of paint and cover the dings and scratches with some functional camo.

[Jmacken37]

Paint it from the "book of pat."

Birchwood Casey's alumablack works, but be sure to clean/degrease the area before you apply.

[Fpnunes]

That slight brownish tint always gets in the way when I'm running my weapon...

This ^^^ :D

Seriously, Black sharpie solves all the world's ills. That said I don't worry to much about scrapes and nicks. It is a combat rifle, not my trap shotgun.