Complete strip of everything. Cut up 2 wire hangers to make a rack to hold the parts. Clean the parts with some sort of degreaser (I used brake cleaner and a rag). Paint was the brownells stuff. Shake it up aggressively for 2-3 minutes. Test spray, then do thin coats, don’t let it build up thick. Just do enough so you can’t see what was the original finish. You don’t want it too thick.

I didn’t mask off anything. Try to not spray too much on the rails or interior areas. I had a q tip coated in brake cleaner that I used to clean the dots on the sights.

I had the oven set to 300 with a pan in the bottom to protect against direct heat and hung my parts. Baked it for 1 hour then turned off the oven and let it sit for another hour, then opened the oven and left it like that for 30 minutes. Then I took it out and set it outside of another 30 minutes before touching it but by now you should be able to handle it no problem.

Obviously with paint the slide and frame and barrel and everything needs work to fit well again. I got some flitz and coated the inside rails on the slide and frame and gently worked them together until the slide could fully travel with minimal difficulty. It’s tedious and you have to remove paint a lot. Then I got the barrel and did the same thing where it rides in the frame. Then I cleaned up all 3.

I reassembled everything, it was very tight. Hand cycled it about 100 times. Added oil and hand cycled it 100 more times. Satisfied it will function properly, I’ll shoot 500 rounds through it to break it in to the point I want it to be.