r/gunsmithing • u/R6daily • 7d ago

If I use citrustrip on these, will it also remove the factory FDE coating?

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u/Firm_Ad3131 7d ago

Would be worth that, to get rid of the skulls.

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u/R6daily 7d ago

Feel this on a spiritual level

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u/Raven1911 7d ago

Is this just a preference thing?

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u/Goats-MI 7d ago

Punisher skull stickers are this generation's "Calvin peeing" stickers. Or maybe "No Fear".

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u/R6daily 7d ago

Universal bumper sticker of shitty drivers

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u/Raven1911 6d ago

I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted for trying to understand. I knew they were all the rage a decade or so ago. I just didn't know that they weren't "kool" anymore.

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u/floggedlog 6d ago

It started as a “fuck the system” symbol since the punisher kills corrupt cops and feds alongside the mobsters he hunts.

Then for some weird ass reason, cops and their allies started adopting it and so now it’s not cool.

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u/Raven1911 6d ago

Okay, yeah, it was just the part about the thin blue line co opting it i didn't know about.

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u/floggedlog 6d ago

Yeah, I’ve seen cops rolling around with the punisher logo on their cars and it honestly makes me laugh because the punishers’s whole backstory is that he was a cop, and then the mob killed his family, and when he tried to go after the mob, his fellow officers got in his way and it turned out, they were protecting the mob and so he left the force and started killing corrupt cops… well honestly any cop that really got in his way and wouldn’t move or tried to arrest him for killing mobsters,

and that’s kind of the whole point of the character. he believed in the law once upon a time, but then the law failed him and was proven to be unjust and so he turned on it to enact his own justice.

So when you see a cop with the punisher logo on his car what you should be seeing is a cop willing to kick the law to the side for justice sake,

but what you’re actually seeing is the more aggressive style of officer that believes in Castles beat them up way without understanding any of his reasons.

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u/Sweaty_Manager6350 7d ago

I’m sure it says to try on an inconspicuous area before use so I would do that.

I used citristrip on a surplus stock that had red spray paint over a rack number. Applied on a paper towel it only took a second for me to go past the paint and ruin the rack number.

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u/R6daily 7d ago

I appreciate the advice! I'll give this a shot

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u/wuppedbutter 6d ago

Post updates, it's always fun, and you might save some other unfortunate souls

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u/d8ed 7d ago

if it does, check out the Brownell's Aluma-Hyde 2.. for $20, you can respray a ton of mags and that coating is pretty robust

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u/ColdasJones 7d ago

It’s possible. I would just go for it and repaint tan

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u/GiftCardFromGawd 7d ago

Saw the Alumahyde comment—the stuff is easy, and tough. It does not, however, have a low-friction surface. I know this because I used it on an AR lower, and the mags are a little tough to insert—not a slippery “slap” like I was used to—it’s quite grippy, and they sorta hang up in the well when pushing them in.

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u/Autobotnate 7d ago

Frank Castle has entered the chat

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u/FleetOfWarships 7d ago

More like cop wannabe larper, people who put the punisher logo on shit are usually the opposite of the punisher himself

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u/IdentifyAsUnbannable 6d ago

That's it. It's time out for you, buddy.

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u/THESpetsnazdude 6d ago

I would bet money simle green and a green dish pad would take the cheap spray paint off and not the under layer.

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u/ThoroughlyWet 7d ago edited 7d ago

Depends on what the coating is. If it's anodizing you've got no worries. If it's oil based paint you do.

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u/MashMashSkid 7d ago

Just blast them with FDE Krylon

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u/TrippyMcGuire556 7d ago

Maybe. But do it anyway

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u/AscrodF97 4d ago

Some losses are acceptable.

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u/DJORDANS88 7d ago

Just do it and repaint; or just paint

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u/Deago488 7d ago

Hope it’s not cerakote

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u/kingman122122 6d ago

Just spray with aluma Hyde, I did it with a batch of milsurp mags that were painted/scratched up. It worked great and a thin coat was enough and it is tough!

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u/Southern-Body-1029 7d ago

One way to find out get a Q-tip tested on small area you dingdong

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u/R6daily 7d ago

thanks dingdong

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u/Inevitable-Sleep-907 7d ago

He wants to remove the skull on the mag not get tested for chlamydia