greybear59

I am wondering if many of you have much experience with DuraBake paints, I recently used some of their paints to do my receivers and a barrel, and it turned out glossy. The bottle says flat dark earth, but turned out glossy as all getout. I used a little bit of their thinner to thin it out for my airbrush so it would flow, but not more than they advise, and I followed their baking procedure to the letter, I am wondering if I did something wrong to make it turn out glossy? The only thing I can think of is that I didnt water wash anything after using brake cleaner to degrease the items before I airbrushed them, would that contribute to glossyness possibly? I expected it to be flat like flat paint usually is, the gloss is definately NOT what I wanted for a camo firearm. Any opinions or help welcomed. I am wondering too if I should bead blast this stuff off and start again with something else that is really flat, or do something different with the DuraBake.

I started by shooting my buddies guns, caught the bug and am building three of my own, a 5.56 with heavy barrel and some goodies, a DPMS-spit-.308 that has a bull barrel and dressed up a bit-but not done, and an economy model 5.56 that will ride on my quad ect. I came here to learn more about the .308 also. I imagine there are at least a few unhappy with DPMS folks running around here arent there, I know I am one of them. I wanted to ask a question here because Im a newbie to this, what parts on a DPMS design .308 are and arent compatible with the AR-15? I mean I know a lot of them are, and some of them are not, I would just like to get the list strait in my mind so if I need to I can tell my buddies if they happen to do a .308 also. I made the mistake of buying three sets of lower kits for the ar-15, and I know the pins are different, also I bought barrel nuts ect, and am using free floating handguards so I have a supply of barrel nuts ect, that I will need to do something with, not to mention buffers ect. I got a little carried away when ordering, I just got tired of the wait times and thought this might speed things up a bit, I was wrong on that one for sure ; ). Anyway I hope somebody can answer that question for me, and any advise on spraying cerracoat via an airbrush? I have some plain lowers that I want to paint up, and a barrel-because it is soo shiny that I want to downplay it, the stainless looks polished on it, not bead blast-which is what I asked for. I am going to read up on the info here now and will probably find the info right in front of me, but hey I just decided to ask anyway.