Finally, something works as advertised!!!
I recently purchased a spanking new SA XD45 compact pistol and was a bit chagrined when I got it home and took it from the case to find a hairline scratch on the left side of the slide (NO, I didn't buy it from Locust Fork!).
The scratch left just enough raw metal shining to make it very obvious. How I missed it at the time of purchase is still beyond me. Anyway, because of the scratch, I was not as excited about the gun as I normally am with a new aquisition. Trying to think how to cover it, I first considered shoe polish and a black Sharpie marker. While rummaging through my nightstand drawer, I ran across something shaped like a Sharpie but when I looked closer it was Birchwood-Casey's PRESTO Gun Blue Pen. I had bought it a couple years back to fix another problem on another gun (it hadn't worked on that one--a Remington 1100 with a gouge on the trigger guard--and I had resorted to using the black Sharpie instead.)
Well, I tried the Gun Blue pen on the XD and lo, and behold, it worked famously! I gave it a couple of hits for good measure, wiped off the excess with my thumb and now the scratch is completely invisible...NOT EVEN A TRACE...and no indentation even. Reading the fine print on the barrel of the pen, I learned that it is for application on STEEL--thus it had not worked on the alloy (aluminum?) of the Remington trigger guard. It's an acid based material that interacts with the steel to turn black.
I was impressed--and now I feel like I have a brand new gun again. Heck, I might even shoot it someday. Ain't it grand when a product actually does what it's sold to do?[^][:)][:0]
The scratch left just enough raw metal shining to make it very obvious. How I missed it at the time of purchase is still beyond me. Anyway, because of the scratch, I was not as excited about the gun as I normally am with a new aquisition. Trying to think how to cover it, I first considered shoe polish and a black Sharpie marker. While rummaging through my nightstand drawer, I ran across something shaped like a Sharpie but when I looked closer it was Birchwood-Casey's PRESTO Gun Blue Pen. I had bought it a couple years back to fix another problem on another gun (it hadn't worked on that one--a Remington 1100 with a gouge on the trigger guard--and I had resorted to using the black Sharpie instead.)
Well, I tried the Gun Blue pen on the XD and lo, and behold, it worked famously! I gave it a couple of hits for good measure, wiped off the excess with my thumb and now the scratch is completely invisible...NOT EVEN A TRACE...and no indentation even. Reading the fine print on the barrel of the pen, I learned that it is for application on STEEL--thus it had not worked on the alloy (aluminum?) of the Remington trigger guard. It's an acid based material that interacts with the steel to turn black.
I was impressed--and now I feel like I have a brand new gun again. Heck, I might even shoot it someday. Ain't it grand when a product actually does what it's sold to do?[^][:)][:0]
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Boy, are you gonna feel piss-poor when YOU scratch it up for the first time! [;)][:D] 0 -
Glad to hear it all worked out! 0 -
...BTW...I sold one of those sub compacts a few weeks ago...very nice carry gun. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ECC
...BTW...I sold one of those sub compacts a few weeks ago...very nice carry gun.
+1. We've been selling a ton of them.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ramtinxxl
(NO, I didn't buy it from Locust Fork!). [^][:)][:0]
we figured that when you said it had only 1 scratch[:)]
i have one of those pens works good, but has worn off after awhile0 -
That's awesome. It's nice when a plan comes together![:D]
(You DID plan it, right?[:p])0 -
quote:Originally posted by ElMuertoMonkey
That's awesome. It's nice when a plan comes together![:D]
(You DID plan it, right?[:p])
Uh, yeah, that's it. I PLANNED it like that. I just love a story with a happy ending.[:p][;)]0 -
Stop yelling please. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Slow_Hand
Boy, are you gonna feel piss-poor when YOU scratch it up for the first time! [;)][:D]
No you can live with your own mistakes better thatn someone else's. After all, you are human...I ain't quite figured out what they are!!!!0 -
I think you have learned what some of us live by.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in
playing those you hold well.
You played well.[:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by dbain99
Stop yelling please.
What, for heaven's sake, are you talking about?0 -
Back in my car salesman days I sold a car to a fellow with an interesting philosophy.
He purchased the first Ford "Supercoupe" seen in Austin, Texas. He paid cash, he paid full list plus additional marckup, never haggled, had tint undercoat, the who;e nine lines. Had the paint sealant package, and that black paint was looking good when he came to take delivery.
I did my thing, congratulated him and handed him the keys. Still laughing and talking he walks over to the car as if to unlock the car with the key. He reaches out and puts about a one inch scratch right on the door. Deep! I thought for sure he was gonna ask me to fix it for him, but he just laughed. Seems he always did that so he wouldn't have to worry about that first scratch.
He became a friend of mine. Seems old "Joe" had made his money in bank robbery. He didn't make his money from the banks he robbed. He did 7 years in club fed and became a highly paid security consultant.
Who says crime don't pay.
Anyway, congrats on your scratch.0 -
I accidentally put a bunch of scratches on my XD. I used car polishing compound and it took all of them out. 0
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