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I've seen it used to fit handgun parts together. There is a lengthy series of videos on youtube of someone building a 2011. Dude brushes this stuff on something like the barrel and slide. He then moves the parts against each other and can easily spot the high points to attack with the file. Rinse, repeat like 20,000 times.
Skip forward to about 9 minutes...
https://youtu.be/6ZzjJPmSsPQ
Last edited by 00tec; 01-14-2018 at 14:23.
If I’m scribing a design out on material, I’ll use Dykem. If I’m marking a part that needs to be machined, I’ll use a thinner medium like a permanent marker. Dykem has a habit of puddling and being inconsistent in its depth and/or thickness. When I need to touch my tool (no pun intended) on a part to find Zero, Dykem can affect the actual Zero point and comprise the accuracy of your measurements.
While I like Dykem and grew up on it For many things red, blue, black sharpie works as well if not better. Dykem is long lasting and depending on what your doing it still has its place.
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Yeah, for what I'm doing a Sharpie will probably be fine.Originally Posted by jerrymrc
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The paste is more fun Ron.
Put on the wife's door handles, your buddies tool box pulls etc.....
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Yeah, I wouldn't know anything about that either.....
There's a lot more of us ugly mf'ers out here than there are of you pretty people!
- Frank Zappa
Scrotum Diem - bag the day!
It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.....
I looked for some in my shop today while I was there, but there was none to be found.
As far as coating brass, will this stuff last longer than Sharpie when it comes to shooting and tumbling? I find that if I want to use Sharpie to mark my brass, I'll have to re-mark upon ever loading.
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Irving,
In case you missed it, the purpose of tumbling in to CLEAN your brass.
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That said, over zealous application of Dykem could lead to sticking cases.
The dang stuff is unpredictable! If you want it to stay on your part through several operations, bang, it disappears right away. If you are done, and want any remnants off your work piece, good luck...
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If you are marking for ID at the range, stick with Sharpie (or Marksalot - do they even still make those? - ) and deal with remarking. Dykem will also thicken over time in the container as it evaps, leaving a thicker film layer on down the line.
And to make it harder, you may want to double/triple stripe your brass with different colors if others are using the same method.
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And, I have known some more seasoned, reloading competition shooters to color code their brass based on number of times fired.
If you looked in their range bag, there would be several different color stripes on their ammo and brass.
Needless to say, at a certain color, they didn't even bother picking it up.
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Hmm, thanks. Just curious as I've seen guys at the range with bright red dye on the base of their brass that is pretty easy to see.
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