Crosman 600 finish?

[Troubledshooter]

I've successfully used Halfords acrylic black satin finish spray paint on various pistols and rifles, but never tried the gloss alternative, although I see no reason why it shouldn't work just as well.
I've also never had to refinish any of my 600's, but from the sound of it, your 'restored' 600 didn't have a very good finish applied.
I think your idea of stripping, keying then refinishing is possibly the best way to go, although I am sure there will be others on here who may have successfully used alternative methods to refinish their 600's.
Cerakote seems to be a modern popular method of refinishing, although should be professionally applied, but not having had any experience of it, I would suggest you contact RichardH on this BBS who has his own refinishing business.

[gingernut]

I'm useless with paint but a friend of mine did a 600 of mine in the paint mentioned by TroubledS.

It was fine after I allowed it a long time to dry.
About 3 weeks on his advice.

[Geoff555]

Thanks chaps you are confirming what I was afraid of, I had 3 two which you know about, 1 hasn't shown any signs ,as yet, of shedding the paint, 1 that is and seems that some parts are solid and would need a sharp scraper to shift the paint. I am hoping its only one! The third one, I think I was done as it was the most expensive and was supposed to have been done by a very well respected chap but was so bad that it was scrapped, a lesson learned.
When I have done some shopping I will give the satin paint a go, but wait for the atmosphere to improve ,temp and damp.
Thanks again, I will come back and let you know the results.
Cheers.
Geoff.

[Troubledshooter]

I would use the gloss paint to match the original finish, and would use Nitromors paint stripper, or something similar, to remove the existing finish, with only stubborn bits carefully removed with a scraper.
To my eyes the satin finish is superb, but it's not what the 600's were originally finished with.

[gingernut]

Nor is chrome but I put up with mine

[Retracted_Yeti]

For what it's worth I sent mine to the Co2 god Lawrie Amatruda for a reseal and repaint, some years ago (2007), still working/looking good now!

HTH.

Roy.

[johnbaz]

Hi all

I was told this one has been refinished with Crosman's original paint, It came from the U.S. and doesn't seem to be 'jet black' but rather an almost 'Browny black', I always thought black was black but my brother who paints cars/bikes etc told me otherwise!! Apparently every black motor from the factory has a concoction of colours added to get the exact shade each time, They had to do the mixing before the paint was applied!!

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John