My KWA Glock 23F project.

[kdogg]

I used a micro polishing kit that contains 2 wool polishing wheels (used to get out tough scratches) and 2 different grades of fine foam polishing wheels for giving that highly reflective chrome polished look.

I have it left over from when I polished the valve cover on my street/drag cars freshly modded stroker motor. As you can see they polish just about anything.

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For a polishing compound I used a product called Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish as seen in the above photo.

Stuff works good. I generally use it on automotive stuff but it will polish any metal.

Anyway, if you wanted to remove the scratches and make it kind of shiny like a nickle metal look and not really a chrome polished look, you would use the wool wheels only and skip the micro fine foam ones.

This kit costs about $20 dollars and the polish was another $5.99

[Crazyman™]

I know this is a bit old, but I have an update for people that wish to attempt this Zip Strip stuff.

Anyway, I bought another metal slide for my G19 from another forum to try this. When I went to Meijer to buy a can, they had a metal can and a spray can of this stuff.

I thought it might be easier with the spray on version. I was wrong. The paint does not come off nearly as easy as the brush on gel probably did for Kdogg.

To get the paint to barely come off, I had to scrub the hell out of it with the scrubby side of a kitchen sponge and even that didn't work too well.

It was then that I decided to break out the Black and Decker Mouse sander with a scrubby attachement.

That seemed to work much better. ;D I put away the zip strip and
I just splashed a little water on the slide and vibrated the crap out of it.
The paint was gone in no time. The best part is, it polished it a bit too with no scratches.

So, my opinion is if you want to strip your slide, either use the brush on gel or just use a Mouse sander with the scrubber.