Letter Whitening
Back in the 70s and 80s it was popular to make the lettering white or gold on revolvers. Does anyone know the product that was used. I have to use something on a couple of vintage scopes.
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"Paint Stick". It's available in auto supply stores, in various colors.
Might be sold under other names also?
Only works well on marking that are engraved into the metal. If the markings are etched rather than engraved don't work.0 -
Is it considered permanent. 0 -
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White china markers, available at most office supply stores, work well.
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Art and welding shops also have it. Oil or acetone will remove it, but handling doesn't really bother it too much. 0 -
depends on how much you want to spend and how much time you want to put into project, Brownells sells kits to use or on the cheap clean all lettering good with rubbing alcohol and a fine artist brush then get yourself a box of crayons and just fill the cleaned letters with whatever color you like and wipe off any unwanted residue, works ok and is cheap and easy to do. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by pip5255
depends on how much you want to spend and how much time you want to put into project, Brownells sells kits to use or on the cheap clean all lettering good with rubbing alcohol and a fine artist brush then get yourself a box of crayons and just fill the cleaned letters with whatever color you like and wipe off any unwanted residue, works ok and is cheap and easy to do.
I use to do a lot of gun photography. Using white paint stick in the stamped markings. Fine soft point brush wouldn't it clean out, after it dried. Had to use one of the G.I., M-16, double ended brushes and drugstore 91% alcohol to get it out.0 -
Restoring some vintage scopes, unertl, fecker, Lyman and they are worth some money so I would like to do it right and not have to do it over. Even though they probably won't get much use. 0 -
We did it to some of our revolvers when I was in the academy. Used model car paint and a tooth pick to fill in the lettering. Let it dry about 5 mins and wipe off excess with cloth with solvent. 0 -
The gold lettering was done with a product called Bonanza Gold. It consisted of a cleaner, a glue and powdered "gold". You would degrease the area with cleaner, dip a patch or q-tip in the glue and then the powdered "gold" which was then applied to the lettering. The cleaner was then again used to wipe off the excess "gold". Sometimes the white lettering was done with talcum powder for temporary photography. 0
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