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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 510, member: 54&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; In about 1995 I spent over 600 hours restoring it-the piece had been sitting in a man&#039;s yard for decades.&nbsp; One thing I remember is that after I had the armor shield completely cleaned, no primer or paint would stick to it, the steel was so hard and smooth, there was nothing the paint molecules could hang onto I guess.&nbsp; I had to get a special toxic potion to etch the steel so the paint primer would stick.&nbsp; Since the piece is &quot;modern&quot; and had to be registered with the gov&#039;t, the former owner called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) to get that done back in 1968.&nbsp; The agents came out to do that and needed to write down the serial number, which is &quot;3.&quot;&nbsp; The agents said that couldn&#039;t be a serial number for a gun, &quot;you gotta have lots of digits for a serial number&quot; even though &quot;3&quot; is stamped into every single part on the weapon, even each bolt, and the brass name plate attached to the shield.&nbsp; So the brilliant agents wound up taking down the weight of the weapon engraved on the barrel, &quot;1810K&quot; as the serial number, which still appears on the registration form and is the number &quot;BATFE&quot; as it is now called, still uses whenever they approve the paperwork to transfer it to a new owner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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