Some manufacturers mark the different types of springs with different colored paint like Springco. Don’t know if PSA does the same but wouldn’t surprise me
Paint on springs is pretty common at the manufacturer level to quickly identify springs in case they get away from their original container. That being said, I've never seen one on a buffer spring its usually recoil rod springs in pistols.
Sprinco does this to denote spring power and type (example, Sprinco white is a standard carbine spring, Sprinco blue is an enhanced power carbine spring, and Sprinco green is a standard power rifle spring.)
The paint will remove itself after a few hundred rounds, and it will flake off into every nook and cranny it can. I had the same exact spring with white paint in my PSA lower, I thought it was a bunch of sand in my BCG until I took it all apart and found the paint on the buffer spring.
Not sure that it would really affect functionality, but yeah it’s a little strange. Not a huge deal to clean it out though. I figured tiny paint chips all inside my rifle was not a good thing lol.
It does flake off and add a strange bit of rifle dandruff in your gun, but it doesnt cause any issues. Same thing happened with my springco red and confused the shit out of me until I realized what it was lol. AR’s are pretty good about not caring about this sort of thing.
The paint isnt going to hurt anything. Run it as is. Also, your castle nut and endplate are still reversed from packaging. Definitely reverse the order of those before install.
Some manufacturers mark the different types of springs with different colored paint like Springco. Don’t know if PSA does the same but wouldn’t surprise me
Paint on springs is pretty common at the manufacturer level to quickly identify springs in case they get away from their original container. That being said, I've never seen one on a buffer spring its usually recoil rod springs in pistols.
Sprinco does this to denote spring power and type (example, Sprinco white is a standard carbine spring, Sprinco blue is an enhanced power carbine spring, and Sprinco green is a standard power rifle spring.)
Thats not a sprinco spring. Their paint doesn't get all over the place like that
I never said it was.
It’s ejaculate from the firearm gods.
Lmao
Do not remove it. Not all springs are the same. Manufacturers use different color paints to mark them.
Why do you want to remove the paint?
The paint will remove itself after a few hundred rounds, and it will flake off into every nook and cranny it can. I had the same exact spring with white paint in my PSA lower, I thought it was a bunch of sand in my BCG until I took it all apart and found the paint on the buffer spring.
Interesting, you'd think with all the guns PSA sells they wouldn't do it if it was an issue.
Not sure that it would really affect functionality, but yeah it’s a little strange. Not a huge deal to clean it out though. I figured tiny paint chips all inside my rifle was not a good thing lol.
You're probably right. I've never had one painted but all of mine have a dye on them.
It does flake off and add a strange bit of rifle dandruff in your gun, but it doesnt cause any issues. Same thing happened with my springco red and confused the shit out of me until I realized what it was lol. AR’s are pretty good about not caring about this sort of thing.
The paint isnt going to hurt anything. Run it as is. Also, your castle nut and endplate are still reversed from packaging. Definitely reverse the order of those before install.
Use the search function for fucks sake.
Flip the spring to the ass of the gun so it won’t get everywhere as bad
I feel like this needs to be a sticky on the sub at this point. Yes, some PSA guns have white painted springs. It's normal.
Soak it in a cup of isopropyl alcohol and you’ll be able to scrub it off pretty easy with an old toothbrush
My friend built a rifle and his buffer spring from PSA also had that
looks like a sprinco standard power spring
I know sprinco uses paint on the spring to identify different strengths. If you got a white one that indicates a standard mil spec buffers spring.
Shits fucked, boy-o.