Polishing of 2011 mags How is everyone doing it?

[bigboy69]

When you polish the inside of the mag, what setup are you using??

Or what is your whole process?

[LoganbillJ]

H&M Black Nitride and done!

[bigboy69]

If I send it for work, I think I would get them electrolis nickel plated.

[EngineerEli]

I've always wondered if you would get any results tossing the mag tubes into the media tumbler for your brass and letting it run for a few hours...

[bigboy69]

I do that with my 22/45 mags. It works well. IDK how well it would work since my tumbler isn't that huge

[MikeRush]

You can tumble them but use fresh media and do one at a time. They can look nice but it doesn't seem to do a ton to smooth things out internally. Outside, I used to work through grits of sandpaper and buffer wheels. Now I use basically a scotchbrite pad for more of a matte finish.

Inside, I will knock the sharp edge off the inside of the feed lips and polish those with a dremel and wheel.

For the length of the tube I use flitz on a shotgun bore mop. Bore mop goes on a section of cleaning rod and gets chucked up into a drill. At the end I will use brake cleaner and pull clean rags through.

I am eventually going to do "one last polish" and get the mags hard chromed.

[bigboy69]

You can tumble them but use fresh media and do one at a time. They can look nice but it doesn't seem to do a ton to smooth things out internally. Outside, I used to work through grits of sandpaper and buffer wheels. Now I use basically a scotchbrite pad for more of a matte finish.

Inside, I will knock the sharp edge off the inside of the feed lips and polish those with a dremel and wheel.

For the length of the tube I use flitz on a shotgun bore mop. Bore mop goes on a section of cleaning rod and gets chucked up into a drill. At the end I will use brake cleaner and pull clean rags through.

I am eventually going to do "one last polish" and get the mags hard chromed.

I'm going to try the bore trick.

I would not suggest hard chrome, I would suggest Electrolis nickel for magazines. At least that's what I've been told from Mahovsky's Metalife.

I wanted hard chrome and he said you don't want hard chrome you want electrolis nickle for magazines They did my Para mags and they were slick as hell.

[v1911]

I had WMD Guns NP3 several mags for me. Decent cost and I really liked the results.

[Racinready300ex]

I have one of the Dawson mag tuning kits. It came with a long piece of Aluminum for messing with the springs. So I took and wrapped sand paper around it and ran it up in the mag. I think I started with like 600 grit and went up to 1000 or 1200. The wrapped a cloth around it and used mothers polish to finish up. Then cleaned it up with break cleaner.

[ShortBus]

I'm thinking about doing electrolis nickel plating on my P320 magazines. Anyone ever done something like this? I was going to try it myself with the method shown here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/High-Quality-and-safe-Nickel-Plating/?ALLSTEPS

[bigboy69]

I'm thinking about doing electrolis nickel plating on my P320 magazines. Anyone ever done something like this? I was going to try it myself with the method shown here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/High-Quality-and-safe-Nickel-Plating/?ALLSTEPS

I sent my Para mags to Metalife and had that done. They were slick as hell.

[ShortBus]

I'm trying to avoid sending them anywhere. I don't want to wait on them and I don't won't to buy more mags to do it.

[bigboy69]

Talk to Metalife they normally have a 2 week turn around time. And i believe if you tell him you need them really quick, he'll work with you.

814-436-7747

I just tell people about him because of agood experience and great work. I receive no kind of kick backs or discounts or anything like that.

[ShortBus]

I'll give them a call tomorrow.