[TheForge] Chrome removal

[dan at irontreeworks.com]

Cool!  Thanks. :)
Danr

Quoting xlch58 at swbell.net:

> dan at irontreeworks.com wrote:
> > The blade and guard are made by Darkwood Armoury. The blade is an excellent
> high
> > quality steel rapier and the gaurd is good steel. This rapier is used for
> SCA
> > Combat, which mean that it is a quality blade.
> >
> > Danr
> >
> >
> Your choices are:
>
> 1) Muck around with googled homebrew solutions for removing chrome, and
> probably waste time and money with no results, or worse, a ruined piece
> and still have no way to re chrome.
> 2) Sandblast, sand and re polish, repair then electroless nickel plate
> (Brownell's and Caswell's sell excellent kits for this, I own the
> Caswell kit -- they have a small kit complete for $75)
> 3) Take the part to a chroming shop and have them electrically de chrome
> it.   Actually the reverse of the chrome plating process, they remove
> the chrome, then the nickel, then the copper flash.  I have heard that
> it is not that expensive for small parts.   They can also re-chrome it
> when your repair is done.  I have an old set of forks that I am planning
> on having this done to.  I will do all of the polishing and metal
> repair, just let the shop do the de chrome and re chrome.
>
>
> Charles
>
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