Removing added-on orange tips
 

A revolutionary Canadian retailer ships all their airsoft guns with blaze orange tips despite the demo images having no orange tips, leading me to believe they are added on by the retailer themselves. I was thinking they would be easy to remove without excessive wear/damage to the piece itself, is it? Or should I order from a retailer who does not put orange tips on their airsofts if it really bothers me?

They don't add them they are supplied from the US all US retailers sell with red/orange tips by law or at least should.

they are not added by the retailer.. they are added by the factory when ordered by suppliers in the US. If you buy a gun and it has an orange tip, it was brought in from an american supplier.

Thats the law in america, they source all their guns from there.

So are they easy to remove?

Some are, some aren't. Some may be orange plastic glued on, some may be paint on the barrel.

Ordered a KWA pistol from them, it came with a thin layer of orange paint on the barrel, easily removed with a light sanding.

So it's just the exterior of the barrel that is painted? Some 600-grit sandpaper should do?

Like Styrak said, it may be paint, may be a plastic tip. You won't know until it arrives. If it's paint use a high grit sandpaper to give a smooth finish. If it's plastic, use a heat gun or a reeeallly good blow dryer on high to heat the glue and twist that bitch off.

what gun are we talking about?

For instance the KWA TT-33, although that looks like a glued on piece since it actually extends the barrel.

could be an extended outer barrel that's painted. the barrel on my 226 was longer than the ksc version and the tip was primed and painted. hacksaw or sand and paint. your choice.

I just took a permanent black marker to mine.

The barrel on my KWA USP Compact had an orange tip, and extended farther than it should, like the tt33. But it wasn't glued on, it was part of the barrel. They just made the barrel longer than was correct for that model, and painted the portion that stuck out. In order to make it true to real steel specs, you would have to cut the barrel down, refinish the end of it and remove any paint that wasn't on the part that you cut off.

If you want to remove orange off plastic, you can use brake fluid...or was that cleaner...I'm leaning towards fluid but I'll look to see what I used tonight. It left a grey residue but makes it looks like gun powder residue on your barrel so isn't all that bad.

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Mine was metal, nothing more than a set screw then unscrewing the CCw threads. I am keeping the orange tip for transportation, the mock silencer for play and plinking.

Unless you're transporting to the US, its totally pointless.

As for orange paint, a lot can be removed with Jig-a-loo without damaging the real finish (unlike sandpaper).

Cleaner. Acetone works too, but make sure to dilute it first.

This! It can eat the plastic.

I used acetone on my Mk23, the threads are messed up now

My USP is still perfect after brake cleaner

Edit: it's brake fluid, not break cleaner

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I'll hop in the thread because I have a really similar question. I'm acquiring a KWA USP Tactical (Threaded barrel) that comes with the threaded part orange. I absolutely need to make that orange part disappear, but I need to keep the threads intact and functional.

Any way to make it happen?

If you are dealing with paint on plastic something you may want to try is SuperClean. It's popular for stripping paint off wargaming miniatures as it doesn't eat the plastic and it works very well. As for the paint on the outer barrels I'm not too sure if it will work or not.

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You can get it at most Canadian Tires. Just let the painted part sit for a few hours and then scrub with a tooth brush.

Edit: Another product you can try is Chameleon model paint stripper. SuperClean seems to work just as well though and is way easier and cheaper to get.