FN Hi Power Project

[panzermk2]

Ok guys new project.

I already started working on this so this picture does not even come close to showing the amount of external damage of the HP. It was a Milsurp HP and cost 300+S&H. This HP was lugged around for 20 + years getting the ever living shit beat out of it. Some of the gouges in the frame where over half a MM deep.

Now while the outside looked like it was dragged behind a truck on a gravel road for a decade as typical of banana republics this HP has been fired maybe 50x?

So the inside is mint.

So here we go.

Magazine disconnect already removed. I will be adding C&S extended safety, bobbing the hammer. Front sight dovetail will be cut and night sights added.

Frame will be cerkoted dark earth. All controls and slide will be ceraote Microslick black.


So for about 150 in parts and 200 in labor I will have a HP worth well over 1K and have a killer HP I ave wanted for many years.

I will include updates as I go along.

[panzermk2]

Well I used a dremel and a rubber diamond embedded wheel for the big dents.



Then I put the frame in the system I use to polish the 28gr bullets before I molly coat them.


Here is the frame, dripping in oil of course.

The system I use leaves all the sharp edges. So while it removed the many small dents, old layers of bluing and scratches all the corners are nice and crisp.

[Cheef]

Thanks for this post.
I love to see the old ones be reborn.
That gun has been places and seen things that that would like make you shake your head.

[panzermk2]

The damage just did not show in the pics.

This grip panel gives a better idea of what the whole gun looked like.

[Cyberfly]

Damn Jay...
You know, my birthday is coming up. That would be like THE GREATEST bday present EVER.
Just saying...

[panzermk2]

Numrich was selling them. If I had more cash I would have bought 3 or 4 fixed them up and sold all but one.

[Mister Freeze]

my 1st gun ever was a HP. Made in Belgium, assembled in Portugal. Sold it to a buddy, so I COULD get it back...
What slide markings does it have?

[panzermk2]

Not the ones I wanted, but it was cheap.

Here is the slide after being cleaned up today. I am going to let it run more though. Still some dents that can be seen.

[Oldbindlestiff]

Very nice! don't remove all its character, tho.

[Mister Freeze]

too bad they weren't stainless!

[blueorison]

Damn Jay...
You know, my birthday is coming up. That would be like THE GREATEST bday present EVER.
Just saying...

LOLOLOL

I love you, Fly.

too bad they weren't stainless!

Jeez, Freeze. You and your stainless. Seriously never met anyone so in love with stainless everything.

[Mister Freeze]

I hate to clean- just ask my wife!

[panzermk2]

Hi Power Update.

Well the front blade has been machined off, a dovetail cut. Night sights both front and rear have been created and fitted. Now it's off to be coated.

[Ditch]

Looking good I bought one of the mark 3 from AIM looking to do a revamp on it.

[panzermk2]

This one was a batch from Numrich.


I would have liked to buy all of them they had and done this all, then kept one and sold the rest.

[Cyberfly]

I wish you had too.
I need one of these...
Note, I did say NEED and not want. There is a difference.

[panzermk2]

Yep, I have needed one for a long time, cash is tight with the brass project. So when this bag of parts called a gun by Numrich came up for cheap I jumped on it. I knew I could all the work myself the way I wanted and for a lot less money then one already done.

[Oldbindlestiff]

I'm in the club, too. But, someone near and dear has promised to whack the soft parts with a hammer if I try buy another pistol. :twss:

[panzermk2]

Project Update, just got back from the coater.

[blueorison]

Beautiful!