Thanks for the tips 48Buick....
I did try a few pieces of copper pipe, buffing pre and post plating, and it came out real nice. The handle I tried was my worst one, I was willing to give it a try. I can scrounge up a lot of later model handles, even cut them apart, for "test pieces" before I dunk one of my good handles.
Where can I buy phosphoric acid?
What do you sandblast with? I have a small bin setup and use silicon carbide (Black Beauty, very fine grit), but I have a hard time beleiving that it would strip chome. I did most of my handles with ScotchBrite roloc discs, but it was too hard to get the crevices.
One of my friends HAS sucessfully acid de-plated a pot metal handle, and then nickle plated it. Send me a pic, looks nice. Fluke?
Most of the handles are pretty dood to start with, but some have pits down in that crevice "rib" area. How best to address these? Dental drill pits with a Dremel? How to fill? I bought some of Caswells Solder-it, will that work?
Thanks for any other tips. I am sold on the Copy Chrome if I can get it to work well. I am a partner in a small resto/parts biz (
www.zarwerks.com) and expect to do a dozen or so of these handles a year.
John H.