Ramp polishing?

[haze10]

What are you using to polish the barrel ramps?

[Keoking]

Are we talking a Glock, 1911, or other? For Glock, I use a Dremel (lowest speed), a felt wheel, and Flitz metal polish. It only takes about 15 seconds to get a nice mirror finish. For the record, the only benefit I have seen from it is that it makes it easier to clean (for some reason fouling will wipe off a polished surface a lot easier than a rough surface). On Glocks, I haven't see any evidence that it actually improved feeding.

[Glock4Life]

I use a soft wheeled Dremel attachment with Maguires medium cut auto buffing compound.

[10mm4ever]

I agree that polishing the feedramp on Glocks doesnt help. Polishing the breechface will make a bigger difference.

[rob99rt]

Originally posted by 10mm4ever
I agree that polishing the feedramp on Glocks doesnt help. Polishing the breechface will make a bigger difference.

My last two Glocks (30 and 19) I've polished the entire barrel (feed ramp, breech face, basically everything I can get to with an 8" buffing wheel) and it seems to help with lockup a bit... just feels much "slicker"... Also, clean-up is a breeze because nothing sticks to the polished surface. I can clean the outside barrel surface, including the feedramp and breech face with just a rag in less than 20 seconds or so, and hardly ever need to put any lube on it anymore. So, it cuts down on crud/dust build-up on it when it's in my IWB holster.

[haze10]

I was asking in general for both the glock as well as my Ruger Mark II. I knew to use a Dremel but was mostly asking as to what 'abrasive' medium people were using. But I never thought of polishing the breech face. My Glocks are Gen 2 and the machining on the breech is rather rough. How does this help and wouldn't you need something a bit more aggressive to polish it.

[Allman]

Depending on hwo rough the surface tobe polished is and how much time you want to spend, you can use anything from the finer grades of valve grinding compound to jewelers rouge.

I've polished them with felt tips and abrasive and i've polished them with cratex wheels. I prefer the Cratex wheels for convenience.

As with any polishinig, you are removing machinin g marks only, not altering dimensions. Go slowly, it is easy to take metal off and hard to put metal back on.

[justinhcannon]

At the shop I have a little metallic camoflauged toothpaste-like tube of pink stuff that smells vaguely amonia-ish. It would be nice if I could remember the name. What I use with it depends entirely what kind of surface I am dealing with. I use elbow-grease as a main ingredient, as everything is done by hand. This isn't a matter of pride, I just don't have the right Dremel-type tools. I will use different types of cloth usually. I may start with VERY fine steel wool sometimes. I realize that this is probably the most un-informing reply, but that's just all I use.

[justinhcannon]

Nevermind in the amonia-smell. I was thinking of Blue Wonder cleaner

[bocephus549]

Originally posted by justinhcannon
At the shop I have a little metallic camoflauged toothpaste-like tube of pink stuff that smells vaguely amonia-ish. It would be nice if I could remember the name. What I use with it depends entirely what kind of surface I am dealing with. I use elbow-grease as a main ingredient, as everything is done by hand. This isn't a matter of pride, I just don't have the right Dremel-type tools. I will use different types of cloth usually. I may start with VERY fine steel wool sometimes. I realize that this is probably the most un-informing reply, but that's just all I use.

I have a tube of the same stuff I don't recall the name either. It works wonders for cleaning the front cylinder face of revolvers.

[cactusman]

Dremel tool polishing compound, by hand.

[WERNER1]

I've found that the Dremel Tool polishing compound worked pretty good, but once I switched to the Ryobi polishing compound... :shocked: It required much less effort, and the results were twice as good. The Ryobi stuff is available at both HomeDepot and Lowes (They have like 3 or 4 different grades as well...)

Rick

[USPSA Guy]

I like the Flitz/Dremel combo for most polishing needs. Very difficult to screw anything up.

[coverdog]

Semi-chrome works well. I never had the need to polish my glocks though. 1911's, yes.