PF940sc 22lr Makeover

This is the next of my 22LR for its makeover.

My backyard fun gun 😁, built two years ago and has been shot a lot but its time it gets a makeover.

First, I need to remove all the old paint. I painted this one with rattle can paint so it should be easy to remove.

Here is what was used for removing paint. Turns out it was harder to remove than I first thought.

I am leaving the stick-on grips on to protect the area I will be stippling.

Polished up with some homemade plastic restore.

I use different bristle bushes, course and soft.

The reason for using cone brush and wheel brush,

is because removing scratches you have to constantly be

going over other scratches in an opposite direction.

If you keep going over and over scratches in the same direction as the scratch it causes dips in your finish.

I will not get my final finish till I have finished all the custom work, this way if I scratch something I am doing more sanding any way and not a big deal.

I am sure you guys know what a magazine end plate looks like and how they just slide on, so I'll skip to why I am hacking this one up. This build is an Advantage Arms 22LR conversion kit. The magazine end plate is narrower than a standard Glock and I cannot find an extension for it, so I bought one for a Glock 26. There is just enough room to make it fit over the end plate of the AA magazine. With an assortment of tools, I was able to remove the slide on tabs with a little more stock out of the sides to fit over the end plate.

I used some Loctite 380 to secure the new end plate to the standard plate. It doesn't really fit, see the gap between the new extension and the pistol grip? It interrupts the eye flow for how the deferent lines meet, so I will have to fit it.

Another problem I have with the new magazine extension is the tab thing on the front of the pistol grip. Like what's is it made for, what is its purpose? Whatever, it has to go.

Another thing that will have to be fixed is the hole in the grip. I will fill it in and sand it smooth.

SO, the plan here is to use clay to form a mold to hold JB Weld.

Clay works great for this, it doesn't dry out, easily molded,

and JB Weld doesn't stick to it. It cleans up easy with K-1 or mineral spirits.

I make sure that there is plenty of JB Weld to sand and shape. I use a 360-desk vise to hold the magazine, this lets me keep turning it, so the LB Weld will not run off or make one big drip. Just keep turning it controlling the flow until it starts to set

While setting and turning the magazine I started working on something new I want to try out on this build, pearl inlay. This is another reason I left the stick-on grip on, so I can use it as part of my form to hold in the pearl. I took some jewelers files and started making a groove.

I will keep adding stuff as i go but these summer builds take longer, just don't have as much inside time to work on them.