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Offline Dan Herda

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plated brass
« on: September 26, 2013, 06:09:07 AM »
I was given some chrome plated brass door kicks and am wondering if there is any way not too complicated or hazerdous to remove the plating.
Thank you for any help.
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Offline Kermit

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2013, 07:33:32 AM »
Yeah--take it to a plating shop. Nasty work, that.
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Re: plated brass
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2013, 05:10:31 PM »
buffing wheel with sufficiently coarse buffing compound? use respirator . . .
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Offline Mark Elliott

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2013, 07:51:08 PM »
You could make the first longrifle with chrome plated mounts.  ;D
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Offline Hungry Horse

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2013, 09:09:33 PM »
 You could make a long rifle stock, out of maple toothpick glued together also, but isn't your time more valuable than that?
  I picked up two old metal doors, off of a condemned state building. They were in rough shape, but had two very tarnished brass kick plates. when I went to pick them up, the guy gave me the two old black thresholds as well. They were 1/4" brass. I will never have to buy brass again.
 Scrounge a little. Old building hardware ( especially the industrial grade stuff is cheap).

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Offline bgf

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2013, 09:51:24 PM »
Quote from: Mark Elliott on September 26, 2013, 07:51:08 PM
You could make the first longrifle with chrome plated mounts.  ;D

You jest of course, but I think an Art Deco or Streamline inspired rifle with chrome plated mounts would look cool.  Not as a trend, but a one-off artistic experiment.  I've seen worse transgressions on "authentic, traditional rifles" where choices of material and finish were inexplicable and without any artistic purpose :)!
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Offline PPatch

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2013, 10:13:56 PM »
bgf; My son and I were (half jokingly) discussing that same concept, an Art Deco longrifle just for the fun of it. I have sometimes had the thought that Jim Kibler is edging that way with some of his cheek carvings, no knock at you Jim, they are beautiful. If anyone could pull off an Art Deco gunne, Jim could IMHO.

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Offline bgf

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2013, 10:42:26 PM »
PPatch,
Jim Kibler was on the "Wanted Poster" in my mind when I wrote that! 
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Offline Habu

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2013, 10:52:11 PM »
Quote from: Mark Elliott on September 26, 2013, 07:51:08 PM
You could make the first longrifle with chrome plated mounts.  ;D

Sadly, it wouldn't be. . . .  years ago I saw one that was chrome plated by a guy who worked at a bumper-chroming shop.  It was an original he decided to "spruce up" back in the '50s, and he was right proud of it.  
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Offline Mark Elliott

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Re: plated brass
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2013, 11:35:07 PM »
Let's not pick on Jim.   I like his art-deco rifle.   I really do.  :D
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