Nickle Frame
This may sound stupid, but how do you strip the old nickle plating from a frame?
Have a gun here that I am working on, someone at sometime had it nickle plated.
Well the nickle is wearing off and all the replacement parts I can get are blued.
Really would like to get the old nickle off and blue the frame so everything matches right.
Not looking to sell it just want it looking right and matching. Also do not want to have to spend the money to
have the replacements nickle plated and the frame replated.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Have a gun here that I am working on, someone at sometime had it nickle plated.
Well the nickle is wearing off and all the replacement parts I can get are blued.
Really would like to get the old nickle off and blue the frame so everything matches right.
Not looking to sell it just want it looking right and matching. Also do not want to have to spend the money to
have the replacements nickle plated and the frame replated.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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Brownells and Caswell sell nickel strippers.
There is a chemical mix that will remove nothing but nickel, which might leave a copper strike on the gun.
There are electrolytic stripping baths that will take everything off down to bare steel.
Or you could ask a plating shop to "de-plate" it.0 -
I bead blasted my '70 series commander. It was satin nickle.
I then sent it out for hard chrome plating.
If you want to blue it you need to get it to bare metal.0 -
I had a friend soak his nickled plated 29 S&W cylinder in Hoppies. It ate the copper out from under the nickle, which just fell off. 0 -
I see the stuff on Brownells.
Thank you for all your help.
Also the Hoppies thing sounds interesting.0
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