Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] OT: to those who are in the chemical business, is there a "safe" way to strip chrome (topic: black painting Leicas)
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:23:30 +1030
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The MSDS indicates that it is based on soda ash (sodium carbonate).
It will only work on nickel and won't strip chrome or chrome alloys.

Marty


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> OT: to those who are in the chemical business, is there a "safe" way to
> strip chrome (topic: ?black painting Leicas)
>
> I'm intrigued by this ad:
>
> http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/metalx.html
>
> This claims to be a safe stripper for getting nickel off metal. ?Never
> thought that there was a way to do this "safely".
>
> Anyone know what it might be?
>
> Vick
>
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