[Land-speed] Plating

[Doug Anderson]

              veRRRRRRRRy  Inter-Esting       -AND from an expert.


                 Thanks Bob.     I knew you'd come through!


     I know one thing for sure:  polishing gun parts 'rounds off' sharp 
edges.

      Thereby BLOWING any value (or good looks) the piece might have had.

      Besides its VERY labor intensive.  Stripping is the way to do it.   
Somehow.


         " your  PLATING  may vary "

    cheers, "Dirt Track Doug" in So. New York,





From: Bobbyhotrods at comcast.net
To: Land-speed at Autox.team.net (Landspeed)
Subject: [Land-speed] Plating
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:13:16 +0000

Finally a topic I know a little about.

Dick, pickel (HCl) will strip the chrome quickly, but not the nickel.

There's only an immeasurable amount of chrome on a "chrome" plating job.

The nickel will be unaffected. The special strip a plater would use is a 
mess to dispose of legally here; they usualy polish it off.

The "reverse plating" technique Otto mentioned won't work well, a plater 
won't compromise his tank anyway, and the sulfuric bath Bob Denton found 
will attack the steel to some degree.
I'm afraid you want to drop back and punt, and send it to a plater with a 
nickel strip. Forget about pickeling it at all, the flash of chrome won't 
matter.

You'll need a nice finish before "bluing", so you might want to find a house 
that routinely does this gun stuff.

My 2 cents.    BJ

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