Anything to be done? AR lower anodized blemish.

[Yarome]

One lower I received today has a pretty good blemish on it and wondering if there is anything I can do on my end.

It appears to be more than just surface marks. Almost like the anodizing in those areas is extremely thin and raw metal is showing through. It's smooth, and I wiped it with a damp microfiber rag with no affect. I expected it was just some surface marks from the plastic bag it was in, but those usually blend in and disappear completely with the surrounding finish when wet or oiled. These remained unchanged.

Thoughts?

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[TTSX]

Did you buy a blem intentionally?

 

[Member 34319]

if there is anything I can do on my end.

Build it, shoot it, and treat it as if it never had a blemish.

 

[Yarome]

Did you buy a blem intentionally?

NOPE! The others are perfect.

 

[Certaindeaf]

It was only $3 so..








Lol

 

[titsonritz]

NOPE! The others are perfect.

Send it back, I wouldn't have accepted it at the FFL.

 

[slimmer13]

Maybe they shipped you a "battleworn" lower. What luck!

 

[Yarome]

Send it back, I wouldn't have accepted it at the FFL.

It's an 80%. Shipped to my home together with the others.

I was hoping someone with more experience and a keen eye might say... Ohh.. it's just "this" and if you do "that" it will disappear completely.

....OR... it's definately a messed up anodizing job. Send it back.

 

[1775usmc]

Spray. Paint.

 

[TTSX]

When you mill it out, you're going to have a lot of bare, raw aluminum to refinish anyway so I suppose it's about at the bottom of the "oh no!" List for me

 

[Yarome]

When you mill it out, you're going to have a lot of bare, raw aluminum to refinish anyway so I suppose it's about at the bottom of the "oh no!" List for me

I never had to do any touch-ups or refinishing exteriors before. I alumi-hyde the milled pockets and holes, but for most people with at home products, I think it would be pretty difficult to produce an even exterior finish that would match a factory anodized. Trying to spot blend an area is probably doable, but not when you're paying full price for "factory new" non-blemished lowers, IMHO.

I was more just interested in "second opinons" on what the marks actually are and if it's easily correctable or definately a return.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

One lower I received today has a pretty good blemish on it and wondering if there is anything I can do on my end.

It appears to be more than just surface marks. Almost like the anodizing in those areas is extremely thin and raw metal is showing through. It's smooth, and I wiped it with a damp microfiber rag with no affect. I expected it was just some surface marks from the plastic bag it was in, but those usually blend in and disappear completely with the surrounding finish when wet or oiled. These remained unchanged.

Thoughts?

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No clue and hard to tell from pic but it looks like maybe something spilled on it. Did you try to rub it off with rubbing alcohol, gun oil, other?

 

[albin25]

Take it to your local trophy shop and have something engraved over the flaw...
... like a smiley face, a flag or "LGB"

 

[Yarome]

... try to rub it off with rubbing alcohol, gun oil, other?

Rubbing alcohol was a good idea. Non-invasive and doesn't alter the condition as delivered. Sadly, No affect.

I tried water and a microfiber earlier. I didn't want to oil it since it would alter the delivered condition and didn't want to create any potential wrinkles in returning it, if need be.

 

[American123]

Superficial/cosmetic, if you use guns in any degree of training and consider them to be tools. It's not an issue.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

Spray. Paint.

or some schweeeeeeeeetttt hydrodip !
probably wont cover up a botched job tho whoopsies

 

[DirectDrive]

1) It bothers you enough to start a thread about it.
2) No Form 4473 is involved here.
3) Send it back for an exchange.

This lower should have been sold as a blem.

 

[Yarome]

Superficial/cosmetic, if you use guns in any degree of training and consider them to be tools. It's not an issue.

True. I like to start out "fresh" and any character marks to be earned. Seeing how I paid for "new"... that's what I would expect to receive. If I wanted blemished I would have bought blemished and saved myself the extra 20 bones to begin with.

 

[Yarome]

1) It bothers you enough to start a thread about it.

Yeah. A lot of very experienced individuals around NWF and mainly just wanted to confirm it was a finish flaw and not something superficial that was easily DIY removed/corrected.

 

[kmk1012]

Gunskinz, this is where you want to look. They are freaking awesome!