Chrome removal

I put it in a big zip lock back while outside, spray on some Easy off oven cleaner (yellow can) to front and back, seal the bag, and wait. Later open it, run water in it until it overflows and dilutes the cleaner, remove and brush off the lingering bits on the parts. Chrome usually comes off really fast, like a few minutes. Keep it off the skin and avoid breathing fumes and you'll be OK.

Tom

One word; bleach. I've seen it remove the 'chrome' from minutes to overnight. It's also readily avaiable and very inexpensive.

Frank Kranick IPMS/USA 20352

randy pavatte wrote:

An automotive degreaser called Castrol Super Clean. Sold in gallon jugs in the automotive section at Wal-Mart...$5-6/gallon. It's also an excellent paint stripper, won't harm stryrene plastic (clear parts too!)

Just immerse the part into a closed container of CSC. In 30mins the chrome is gone, no toothbrushes, no scrubbing. If you're stripping chrome from a Tamiya kit (some kits have an oddly-colored yellow primer underneath the chrome)the part will have to bathe overnight to eliminate that primer as well.

Wear gloves. It's strong stuff (not enough to cause burns) but it has the potential of drying out your skin.

Sat

Oven cleaner in a sealed container or, with adequate ventilation. Ezy Off is strong enough for most chrome.

I second bleach. Standard house bleach. My experiences whit it is that it removes chrome in few minutes.

Bye, Rodolfo.

"Francis X. Kranick, Jr." wrote:

Pine Sol or cheap dollar store Pine cleaner. I used the dollar store version recently to dechrome the parts in a Lincoln Futura. The process took 12 hours or overnight and I wisked off the chrome with an old toothbrush. Cheers, Max Bryant

in article eqNpb.78081$ao4.219362@attbi_s51, Max Bryant at snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net wrote on 11/4/03 7:00 AM:

Household bleach works the same way. Pine Sol smells a bit better however.

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