Posted: 3/31/2003 7:25:06 AM EDT
| I've came across an old Remington Rand 1911 frame that at some point in its life was not taken care of or had a bad hard chrome job done on it. Multiple rust, flake, bare metal spots. Other than the finish, the frame is in decent shape, but I'd like to take the remaining hard chrome off the thing and have it refinished (parkerize). Anyone got any advice for removing hard chrome? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
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You are sure it is industrial chrome...hard chrome, right? You don't see any evidence or copper plating under the peeling chrome? It sounds like nickel plating going bad by those symptoms. Not doubting you, just making sure. If so, Faris is correct, the plater can reverse the process. Normally, a plater has glass bead/sand blaster/vapor blasting machines too, they can be used to "hide" some pits and help the parkerizing "stick" better, while it's there anyway. |
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No copper plating underneath. There is a local guy in the town I bought it in that has been refinishing guns out of his engine shop. I'm pretty sure that this frame is a product of his hard chrome plating process that is used to chrome engine parts. I dont think that the steel was prepped right before plating. I've found a couple of platers here in Texas and have a call in to a couple of them to see if they do any deplating. Nickel or chrome plating is not something I generally care for on guns so I'm not real knowlegable on who to get to repair/fix/replate/deplate the frame. I got it cheap, so I guess its no big loss if it doesnt work out right. BTW, I looked in my books and found out it is a Colt frame. It was sold to me described as a Remington Rand, after looking at the inspection markings for government issue 1911's it turns out it is a Colt. Its too bad the finish is not better although its not an original finish for an issue gun. Thanks for your info! |