TGO David

I'm not sure I understand. Are you asking if you can promote your hosting gig as a service to our members? We've always allowed our members to plug their non-firearms related business as long as it doesn't become so routinely intrusive that it might as well be "spam".

H&K: Why You Suck and Why We Hate You. The Unabridged Edition. In German. Zing!

I had you pegged for an Airsoft guy.

I just don't get that, but to each his own I guess. I like to know that the people I talk to in person are the same as they are online and vice versa. I'm a pretty likeable smartass in person just like I am on here.

What I want to know is, how do you conduct a meeting of any importance in a room with so many distractions?

We are still awaiting confirmation on a few things. We've got a few weeks to get the specifics nailed down and we know what day it's going to be on.

It's a 15# spring. Just found my old thread about it.

I did. I believe I'm running a 13# spring but would have to double-check. I posted about it here a while back in a thread called "Improving on Perfection" or something like that.

People often ask what the TGO Global HQ looks like inside. We typically don't do tours but here's a photo: Actually that's a conference room at Heckler & Koch. Nice huh?

If I were the editor, this is how I would have changed the first paragraph of that news story...

I'm working on pricing information and will post something no later than this upcoming Monday. I just need to make sure that I have all of my bases covered before I put a rate schedule out there. I'm not looking to get rich off of any of this but I need to at least cover materials and make a little pocket money. There's about 3 hours worth of work in doing one completely, but I enjoy it. Obviously certain considerations will have to be taken, such as whether the firearm is completely detail stripped before it is sent to me or if I have to do it. I have an assortment of firearm-specific MGW sight installation tools and have ordered a B&J Machine universal sight tool to take care of those that I don't have a specific tool for. So sight removal and installation is something that I won't factor into whether or not a firearm is completely stripped. I'll take care of that as part of it since the sights will need to be reinstalled correctly to prevent the slide being banged up after being refinished. Anyway... more on all of this come Monday.

If you end up ditching the ISMI guide rod and spring, I'd highly recommend using a Wolff spring and guide rod combination. I use it in my Glock 19 and have ZERO problems. It's not a captive design, but i actually prefer it that way.

Not one to be content with anything that strikes me as being not quite perfect, I shot the Glock's slide again tonight but this time used my airbrush instead of the HVLP spray gun that I had used earlier. This time the finish looks absolutely STUNNING. The color is absolutely FLAT and shows no shine or sheen. Exactly the way that I had hoped it would have looked to begin with. The Glock's slide now has the appearance of brushed stainless steel. Very classy! I'm blown away with what a difference this second set of coats with the airbrush made and I think that Jason will be even more pleased with this than he was with the previous photos. The pieces are curing in the oven right now and I will get photos of them tomorrow morning out doors when the light is best.

Not one to be content with anything that strikes me as being not quite perfect, I shot the frame and slide again tonight but this time used my airbrush instead of the HVLP spray gun that I had used earlier. This time the finish looks absolutely STUNNING. The color is absolutely FLAT and shows no shine or sheen. Exactly the way that I had hoped they would have looked to begin with. The finish on the SIG looks like the finish on the new FN-SCAR rifle. It's got that awesome powdery flat tan that MILSPEC requires. I'm blown away with what a difference this second set of coats with the airbrush made and I think that Daniel will be even more pleased with this than he was with the previous photos. The pieces are curing in the oven right now and I will get photos of them tomorrow morning out doors when the light is best.

Kimber Warrior with 10-8 Performance rear sight and Milt Sparks VM2 in cordovan leather for railed 1911.

It's sad that all of this confucism is leaving the family hanging like this.

Tacticool Black is definitely an option with the moly resin finish, and of course I can still do Duracoat in just about any color under the Lauer Weaponry sun. I'll be posting some pricing information soon.

JHatmaker here on TGO was the other person to volunteer their firearm for a refinish. What surprised me was the fact that what Mr. Hatmaker provided was a pristine Glock 32 that had barely any wear on it at all. It takes cajones to offer up a like-new firearm for something like this. Before I get into the photos, I do need to say this: We often read and hear about how awesome Glock's Tenifer finish is. In fact, the durability of Tenifer has reached almost mythical status. Having now had one's slide media blasted, I have a profoundly deeper respect for just how true some of the hype about the factory Glock finish. My compatriot who did the media blasting actually commented on how much more involved it was to remove just the black surface layer of the Glock finish. He stated that it took quite a bit more work than the other firearm pieces that he blasted for me, and that he had to run the air pressure to the maximum for their blasting cabinet. Even then, what resulted still had a lot of pigment left to it. Clearly the Tenifer chemical-bath nitriding process really does penetrate deep into the metal and provides serious protection from within. I would wager that even with the black outer finish removed, the slide would have exhibited excellent corrosion resistance thanks to the Tenifer process. Anyway, enough of that. Here are photos of the slide "in the white" as it were... And here are photos of the slide after it was shot with Norrell's Stainless Moly Resin and thermally cured. As I stated in the thread regarding Daniel's SIG P6, the moly resin finish is not a paint and does not properly activate until it has been baked for a period of time at the appropriate temperature. I am awaiting receipt of the nylon firing pin channel liner for this slide and will then reassemble it. I'm really pleased with the way the color and finish quality turned out, and entirely confident that even if the finish wears some over time, the Tenifer treated metal beneath will still provide superior corrosion resistance.

Sure... but from this point forward it's going to involve a price tag.

It's going to look something like this, finished...

Daniel, one of our moderators, took me up on my offer of a complimentary refinish job using his well-worn SIG Sauer P6 as the subject. He was even kind enough to completely detail strip it for me ahead of time, so all that was required was to have the slide and frame media blasted and the rest of the parts thoroughly degreased. Here are some photos of the slide and frame "in the white" fresh from being media blasted. After discussing it some with Daniel, I encouraged him to let me use Norell's Moly Resin product on the firearm rather than Duracoat. Moly resin is a more durable finish, although a bit more picky about how it is sprayed and a lot more noxious when being sprayed. Hence, a proper respirator and good ventilation are required. Moly resin also must be thermally cured rather than left to air dry the way that Duracoat can be. You can bake Duracoat also to expedite the dry time, but it is ultimately still a paint. Moly resin is not properly cured until it is exposed to at least 300 degrees for at least an hour. Once it cures, however, it is highly resistant to all common solvents and extremely resistant to chips, scrapes and scuffs. Since Daniel wants to treat this firearm like a tool rather than an heirloom, moly resin was the best choice. Here are some photos of the slide and frame, post-curing. The color is Flat Tan (U.S. Military mid-east desert tan 30118 color fed standard 595B. Also known as "Dark Earth.") Firing controls and other external pieces, including the sights, were finished in SOCOM Black Flat moly resin and also oven cured. I will be reinstalling the sights for Daniel before returning the remaining pieces to him for reassembly. I'm probably as anxious to see it put back together as he is.

Sadly, because of the well-insulated world that so many live in these days, thanks due partially to how long some of our "younger" set can stay cocooned in the womb of academia for graduate and post-graduate studies, it is no longer just those fresh out of high school who operate on a vast supply of ignorance. Hence we have people well into their late twenties (and sometimes much further beyond) who subscribe to idiotic utopic theories of how the world ought to work and embrace that as their own little realities. We've become a nation of over educated idiots.

Why didn't you just do a Revocable Living Trust instead of trying to get Serpas to sign off on it as your Chief LEO?? I really don't see him bending over backward to sign that very fast. I did my trust using Quicken Willmaker to create the template and just edited a few things in MS Word before printing, signing and notarizing.

General Motors was a dinosaur that failed to evolve over the past 30 years. I don't buy into the idea that it is the "canary in this economic coal mine" as that article purports. I do believe that it serves as a clarion warning to Union shops everywhere. It's cry? Evolve or die.

Where are foreigners covered? It doesn't matter if they are terrorists are Nobel Peace Prize recipients. The Constitution and it's guarantees apply to American citizens.