Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/21

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Subject: [Leica] OT to gun refinishers.... how can I turn chrome plated brass to black?
From: inquisitor at devilkitty.org (C. L. Basso)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:00:28 -0400
References: <mailman.607.1332274044.1179.lug@leica-users.org>

On 03/20/2012 04:07 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT to gun refinishers.... how can I turn chrome
>       plated brass to black?
> To:<lug at leica-users.org>
>
> Thanks Frank
>
> I was hoping there was an alternative to paint, to turn a Nikon S2 into 
> black.
>
> Vick

Brass Black only works on bare brass, and the "black" varies depending 
on the particular alloy of brass used.

In my experience chrome plating will prevent the desired reaction taking 
place, though you might get an interesting piebald effect if your S2 is 
brassed in spots...

-- 
C. L. Basso
Walled Lake, Mich.

"His every breath a kind of ebb that leaves him further from himself, he 
floats rather than steers to the island of the mad - beyond all 
trade-routes, in a doldrum sea, its high crags burning."
-- Mervyn Peake, /Gormenghast/


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