Removing plating From a platinum pipe

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Edited Date/Time 3/7/2019 2:36pm
Does anyone have experience with a shop that reverses the plating? Ive already called a few chrome shop with no luck..

Im trying to get my spare 96 platinum pipe back to a raw metal before I send it to pipe repair
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mister2dt 3/6/2019 9:57am
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Put it in a tub of water and add some battery acid to it. The put the negative clip from a battery charger on the pipe and put the positive on a diode sitting in the water. The current will flake the plating off and leave the steel raw
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DTR830 3/6/2019 10:01am
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mister2dt wrote:
Put it in a tub of water and add some battery acid to it. The put the negative clip from a battery charger on the pipe...
Put it in a tub of water and add some battery acid to it. The put the negative clip from a battery charger on the pipe and put the positive on a diode sitting in the water. The current will flake the plating off and leave the steel raw
Looking for a place to send it, not something I'm interested in attempting. Ty for the reply
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mattyhamz2 3/6/2019 10:06am
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Following. Looking to have this done to a few pipes.
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mister2dt 3/6/2019 10:18am
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mister2dt wrote:
Put it in a tub of water and add some battery acid to it. The put the negative clip from a battery charger on the pipe...
Put it in a tub of water and add some battery acid to it. The put the negative clip from a battery charger on the pipe and put the positive on a diode sitting in the water. The current will flake the plating off and leave the steel raw
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Looking for a place to send it, not something I'm interested in attempting. Ty for the reply
Platers have so many regulations with EPA now, sending it off is not cost effective unless you find a place at the right time and they need a filler for a tank to drop. Anodizing and plating companies all have plating stripping baths. if you can find one near you who will take it, thats about your only option aside from having it bead blasted
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mattyhamz2 3/6/2019 10:45am
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Do you happen to know around what they charge?
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DTR830 3/6/2019 10:50am
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well pipe repair is up that way anyway. Thanks ill give them a call
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DTR830 3/6/2019 10:58am
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$58.30. Assuming if you had more it would be the same price
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DTR830 3/6/2019 11:11am
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$58.30. Assuming if you had more it would be the same price
Just called a hydro/plating shop & got a price for $200. #nothanks
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mattyhamz2 3/6/2019 11:24am
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$58.30. Assuming if you had more it would be the same price
Through who?
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DTR830 3/6/2019 11:31am
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The shop mentioned above
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Zeke27G 3/6/2019 11:59am
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Dear Op,

I took an old nickel plated KX500 FMF Gold Series pipe to Bush Polishing in Santa Ana to have the plating removed. They got all of the Nickel off, but there was still some Copper plating remaining in areas that are taking some elbow grease with a scotch brite pad and WD-40 to remove. The cost was $50 and it took a week. Once I get the final bit of copper removed from the pipe, I will post some before and after pictures. Also planning on sending it to Pipe Repair in Oregon to have some small dings removed. Once I'm done with it, it might be too nice to even use!

Anyhow, here is their info:

Bush Polishing
"A nice place to slide into" (Yes, that's their slogan!)
(714) 462-2034
2236 W 2nd St.
Santa Ana, CA 92703
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RexEasely 3/6/2019 12:44pm
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Hahaha
Bush plating...nice place to slide into
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eric513anderson 3/6/2019 12:47pm
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I haven’t tried this method but I’ve heard of people coating the whole pipe in easy off oven cleaner and letting it sit over night. Can is only a few bucks. Worth trying
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zippytech 3/6/2019 12:48pm
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Will that remove the carbon build up in an old 2 stroke pipe
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jstevenson 3/6/2019 3:51pm
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As sandman768 said. Then sand and wd40/scotch bright. Not worth the hassle of trying to chemically strip it. Here's one I've done.

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delonick347 3/7/2019 11:34am
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jstevenson wrote:
As sandman768 said. Then sand and wd40/scotch bright. Not worth the hassle of trying to chemically strip it. Here's one I've done. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2019/03/06/330059/s1200_20180914_073029.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2019/03/06/330060/s1200_20180914_073022.jpg[/img]
As sandman768 said. Then sand and wd40/scotch bright. Not worth the hassle of trying to chemically strip it. Here's one I've done.

My dad bought a blasting cabinet at Harbor Freight and I'm interested in turning a "Gold Series" into a "Works Series" Wink and also cleaning up an actual PC Works Series pipe.

What media do you use?
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sandman768 3/7/2019 1:08pm
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You can successfully clean up the raw pipe with glass bead...nothing you do will touch the plated pipe, I tried unsuccessfully...a commercial blaster will have the correct media and high enough air pressure to remove it, then treat it like a raw pipe with the scotch brite sanding...When I get my pipes sanded to raw, I then blue the welds & refinish with clear heat spray paint...it holds up pretty good, but will need to be cleaned up periodically depending on usage.
Jonathan1717 3/7/2019 1:32pm
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Glass bead will remove plating but it needs to be shot at 250 psi plus. The problem is if you fire to much media it creates a lot of heat and can warp the metal. This isn’t a big deal on a pipe but the commercial company I used does hi end restorations of old cars and that much heat would destroy a fender or hood in a hurry. I tried every media I could find in my blast cabinet and it just knocked the shine off the nickel. Commercial company is the way to go. Spend the $40 and let someone else do it.
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NvHermit 3/7/2019 1:53pm
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Stick it in your wife's self cleaning oven on the clean setting and open the windows.
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jstevenson wrote:
As sandman768 said. Then sand and wd40/scotch bright. Not worth the hassle of trying to chemically strip it. Here's one I've done. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2019/03/06/330059/s1200_20180914_073029.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2019/03/06/330060/s1200_20180914_073022.jpg[/img]
As sandman768 said. Then sand and wd40/scotch bright. Not worth the hassle of trying to chemically strip it. Here's one I've done.

Literally putting some blood, sweat and tears into it, based off the floor pic

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