Dura -coat experience?

[commonsense]

Does any one on here have experience applying the dura coat finish? How hard to do? Results? ect.

[Pitdog]

Dura coat is easy to apply if you are any good with a spray gun. You can actually spray it on most parts with a small hobby air brush, but a larger one with air compressor is a little quicker and may make it more uniform on larger items, like barreled actions, as opposed to pistol parts.
It is not necessary to cure it with heat, but it sure does make it faster. 110 degrees for half an hour to fully cure it, you can even dura coat synthetic stocks. If you do not cure it with heat, I think it takes two weeks to fully cure on it's own. A regular oven will work on small parts, I have talked to a friend of mine who has used a heat gun and gone over barreled actions with the heat gun on low for a while, and he has had great success with it.
It cures at 1 or 2 mil thick, so it works fine on moving parts, and did not even remotely hide the shallow stamping on the last Colt 1911 frame I watched get done. I reccomend it and am doing my new 700 'long range rifle' in duracoat.
Another neat alternative is Cerama coat from Midway, but it has to be baked at 350 degrees, but let me tell you it is indesctructable.