Polishing a Stainless Slide

derek1975

derek1975

Regular
EE Expired
Rating - 100%
9   0   0
Location
Hamilton, Ontario
I have a Ruger P89, but it's a later model that is all flat stainless. The earlier production models had brushed/polished flats and I really like the look of it. If I was to disassemble mine and sand/polish the flats on mine, would I need to do anything else to it so it doesn't rust easily? Also, if anyone knows how to disassemble a decock only P89, that would be a big help. I can get everything off the slide except for the left decocker. I get the extractor and right decocker out easily, but the left is in there pretty good. I didn't want to force it out just incase I'm missing a step. Thanks for any input in advance.

Derek
 
Just for s**ts and giggles, I satin finished the slide on my Tokarev TT-33. The way I did it was to clamp a fairly thick straight-edge to a VERY flat counter, then, using double sided tape, affix some 320 wet/dry to the counter immediately in front of the straight-edge. After squirting some WD-40 on the wet/dry, using very straight, long and smooth strokes you begin refinishing your slide. I found you don't need alot of pressure but you should check often. My Tok slide looks awesome and I've shown others how to do the same thing.
Cheers!!
PS-Should mention, completely dissassemble your slide before doing any of the above. When finished, make sure any and all traces of the slurry are off your slide before re-assembly. Oh yeah, you can go as far as you want in terms of how smooth/shiny you make your slide; I started/stopped at 320 because thats what I liked.
 
SS doesn't rust easily anyway. If you polish it, don't polish the top of the slide. It'll cause enormous glare in bright light.
 
You mean, Like this !
112009023b.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom