Nickel stripping?

[luckypip]

Further to my previous post relating to disassembly of a DE razor - I was thinking that now it has been taken apart it might be a good time to strip the nickel coating from it, finish it off, buff it and replate it !
Does anyone know the chemicals to use for reverse electrolysis to remove the nickel. There seems to be conflicting arguments between Muriatic Acid and Sodium Hydroxide ( and the mix by volume ) !
Can anyone who might have carried out this process give me some advice please ?

[Datsots]

Have you taken college level chemistry classes or other materials safety training? If not take some time to educate yourself.

I don't see any benefit of stripping off the nickle. Also I think that the possible methods may damage the base material. Requiring more work to get a good appearance.

I would just buff, degrease, and re-plate.

Jonathan

[thebigspendur]

Depending on how the plate was done sometimes it just peels right off. Otherwise I'd just buff it with a mild abrasive.

[HaiKarate]

Buff it as though you had no idea what you are doing..The plating will magically dissapear pretty fast.

[carlmaloschneider]

I took the plating off the head of my an old DE of mine by using wet and dry sandpaper. I can't remember the grit but it was pretty fine, maybe 1600.

[pixelfixed]

If an older chrome or nickel plated Gillette,the base metal is most likly brass,than plated with copper,than Nickel.
If you have no experiance with plating, have it done by a pro.

[Anthony1954]

Further to my previous post relating to disassembly of a DE razor - I was thinking that now it has been taken apart it might be a good time to strip the nickel coating from it, finish it off, buff it and replate it !
Does anyone know the chemicals to use for reverse electrolysis to remove the nickel. There seems to be conflicting arguments between Muriatic Acid and Sodium Hydroxide ( and the mix by volume ) !
Can anyone who might have carried out this process give me some advice please ?

Hi there, there's a guy here in the UK that will strip and replate razors. Some say it destroys the authenticity of the razor, but he did a Fatboy for me in Rhodium and it looks superb. I'm not to bothered about destroying the originality as this razor will stay with me until I shuffle off this mortal coil. I don't have his contact details to hand but if you're nterested PM me and I'll look them out.

[PhatMan]

luckypip,

Mr Dave Glynn does this work in the UK.

(He formerly owned safetyrazors.co.uk, but he sold that.)

He now owns Restored Razors - Safety Razor and Straight Razor Restoraton.

I have just had a peek at his website, and found this

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Unfortunately due to work commitments, no further plating work will be undertaken from 22nd April 2014 until further notice. Apologies for the inconvenience, but I don’t want to let anyone down with delays etc.

You could get in touch to see if he would recommend anybody else ?

Best of luck

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

[luckypip]

Hi All
Thanks for all the advice, but this is something I wanted to try on this old DE; just to see if I could do it !
If I ruined it , well at least I tried.
This morning I put it in a solution of Muriatic acid and using a piece of nickel sheet as an anode applied a reverse current for a few minutes. Then periodically removing it and brushing the surface with an old toothbrush and replacing it in the acid until I got the desired result. It now looks like it is gold plated !
Will in due course, buff it, electro clean it and eventually re - nickel plate it !
A nice little project for me !

[carlmaloschneider]

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You COULD get it gold plated...