> >>Has anyone used the old "plate-it-yourself" hobbie gunsmith method to plate >>lyre pedals? > >>From my experience, good metal plating demands too much care to do it >yourself. For good result you have to buff all previous plating off, put a >good coating of copper, polish it, then put another layer of nickel and >repolish. When professionnaly done, the re-plated pedals just come out like >new. > >Michel Lachance, RPT >Chance@cme.qc.ca > I once tried ordering 'new' pedals. When I received them, the plating started to flake off immediately after I opened the box. I took the original pedals and had them plated at a local plating shop, and they are superb! Laurence Beach
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