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Originally Posted by pivot
I think it all depends on how deep your trades are and how deep you go when you are sanding it down. You don't have to remove much material to get down to the base metal. You cant see the trades well from this pic and I don't have the gun anymore, but when I polished this slide and barrel it was pretty hacked before I got it. You can still see the trades on the barrel even though it was sanded poorly before I got it and I had to sand it some more. Forget stripping with chemicals, just hit it with some wet sandpaper, probably start with a 200 and go up from there until there are no more scratches. If you want a polished look like this gun, hit it with a polishing wheel. Takes no time at all.
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I'll add this, not all metal slides are milled out of a solid piece of a luminum like this, some are just pot metal (namely G&G crappy slides) that won't polish like this.
Even though I think polished or even just silver Glock slides look like ass I gotta admit that one is nice!