Painting a Plastic Gun
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I’m trying to identify this plastic off a 22, its for my cousin wants its sprayed flat black. Any idea what this thing would be made of? Thinking I should just go plastic cleaner, scuff, adhesion promote..any input?
The type of plastic really doesn’t matter, just weather or not you need adhesion promoter. Take a razor blade to a hidden edge and scrape off a very tiny sliver of plastic and put it in water. If it floats, use adhesion promoter, if it sinks, you won’t need the promoter.
Prep and paint as usual…
[quote=”Ben” post=26871]The type of plastic really doesn’t matter, just weather or not you need adhesion promoter. Take a razor blade to a hidden edge and scrape off a very tiny sliver of plastic and put it in water. If it floats, use adhesion promoter, if it sinks, you won’t need the promoter.
Prep and paint as usual…[/quote]
that is a very cool trick!
I generally use AP regardless, when it’s an unknown plastic. I work with ABS, PVC, Acrylic, and UMWH on a regular basis, and occasionally bond to PP and PO in factory interior panels – the stupid factory plastics require AP about 99% of the time….. It took me about a year of little projects before I really got comfortable bonding and spraying all the really gay ones.
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