willy if you are just trying to knock the shine off your A-bolt, rather than mess with strippers and disassembly you might want to go lightly over the stock a few times with a scotch-brite pad. (Usually your wife has one or two in the kitchen, if not any grocery store has them) You can make the shiny finish "matte", smooth/even up the finish so that most of the scratches/nicks will disappear yet you won't remove enough to hamper the protection of the finish.


HL