Awesome work, all my work with plating has been with Electroless nickel from Caswell's process. It is done with heat and chemicals but you have proved the old style electro plating process provides beautiful results also!
I have been wanting to try the electroless process. I've always used this because it's cheap and it's very easy. Plus this same process works for gold silver nickel copper and others
@@snappers_antique_firearms I'm sharing that...cause In NZ..we have no clue about guns.thats a fact.imsharing it to my panelbeater..autobody friends.. love your worm.. bang bang 11 ... kindof sent me here
Great vid: Nickel: I have a local scrap yard. a guy I know there has sold me some Nickel for less the Amazon.. Haven't tried it yet but I plan to... Snapper you are A GOD!! Blackie will love it! keep the faith brother.
I've been wanting to do some nickel plating. I recently picked up one of the Caswell silver plating brush kits, I have a couple things with a really worn finish that need touched up.
I have seen those before. Let me know how well it works. I am making silver plating solution really soon. It's the exact same thing as my video but instead of using nickel you use silver. Also works with gold copper and a couple other metals.
Give it a try some day its easy and fun. Plus a good way to make replicas more authentic would be to nickleplate the brass grip frame on most Colts. They were originally silver-plated. nickel is a good stand-in
wow, that is an outstanding finish, looks magnificent. and for me that was a really different video, never seen anything like that before and by crikey you made it look so DIY easy. onya cobber, great job
It really is that easy brother. If you take away nickel from this and use gold, silver, copper and many others you can plate with those metals. I bought some silver and copper so I can do silver plating and copper plating
Hmmmmm interesting, I was recently given a electroplating machine that costed couple grand back in the 80s ,it has a reverse polarity that can strip off the nickel “or so he told me” not shure if it would, but I only got the machine nothing else, it looks like it won’t take much by the looks of this video before I can try and plate something, I’m going to have to try this
Yeah but reversing the polarity you can strip nickel off. You want to use just vinegar. And a bolt for the negative. If you used the same nickel solution as for plating. it would contaminate it
I saw you video and i am here to help if you need it. Also i am happy to do shout outs to you brother let me know when you are ready for me to do so. Glade to hear you are part of this video making family.
My brother and I nickled a cheap Centennial revolver shot also I noticed you fire blue the trigger we did a you birding Calvary 73 the whole gun fire blued
Original colts most were silver plated on the trigger guard and backstrap. Every colt i own accept my 1860 Army. all had silver trigger guards and back straps. Most guns have no trace of this left on them unless you take the grips off. under the grip you will still see silver. I could not silver plate when i made these videos. so we just went with nickel. Plus it doesn't tarnish over time. Nickel plating didn't really become a thing till the late 1870s and early 1880s. So guns made prior to that they used silver.
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That thing came out so nice
I agree it was stunning in person
Very cool! Love the finished product.
Thanks Santee
Awesome work, all my work with plating has been with Electroless nickel from Caswell's process. It is done with heat and chemicals but you have proved the old style electro plating process provides beautiful results also!
I have been wanting to try the electroless process. I've always used this because it's cheap and it's very easy. Plus this same process works for gold silver nickel copper and others
One of these days these will be called the 11 snap pistols lol
😂
Another great video Snapper!!
Thank you
Wow 🤩 nice video 😎👍🇺🇸
Thanks
That is awesome, thanks for sharing the technique. My son loves dinosaurs too! 🙂
if only i had half the toys when i was a kid.
@@snappers_antique_firearms I know what you mean.
Great video...I'm learning. Thx
Thank you
@@snappers_antique_firearms I'm sharing that...cause In NZ..we have no clue about guns.thats a fact.imsharing it to my panelbeater..autobody friends.. love your worm.. bang bang 11 ... kindof sent me here
@@swimasfastasyoucan thanks for sharing with your friends.
I don't know. I kinda like the dinosaurs in the background. It works for Santee.
Instructions unclear. Now my nickels are copper plated and my pennies are nickel plated
😫 not again
Great vid: Nickel: I have a local scrap yard. a guy I know there has sold me some Nickel for less the Amazon.. Haven't tried it yet but I plan to... Snapper you are A GOD!! Blackie will love it! keep the faith brother.
Thanks gray!! hope you are doing well my friend.
Great video
Thanks!
I've been wanting to do some nickel plating. I recently picked up one of the Caswell silver plating brush kits, I have a couple things with a really worn finish that need touched up.
I have seen those before. Let me know how well it works. I am making silver plating solution really soon. It's the exact same thing as my video but instead of using nickel you use silver. Also works with gold copper and a couple other metals.
Awesome, thank you.
Give it a try some day its easy and fun. Plus a good way to make replicas more authentic would be to nickleplate the brass grip frame on most Colts. They were originally silver-plated. nickel is a good stand-in
@@snappers_antique_firearms I think that is awesome and I am definitely going to be giving it a try in the future.
You gave me another idea to be dangerous with
wow, that is an outstanding finish, looks magnificent. and for me that was a really different video, never seen anything like that before and by crikey you made it look so DIY easy. onya cobber, great job
It really is that easy brother. If you take away nickel from this and use gold, silver, copper and many others you can plate with those metals. I bought some silver and copper so I can do silver plating and copper plating
@@snappers_antique_firearms wow - I look forward to seeing your future endevours Snapper :)
@@CodyandSteveDownUnder you to brother
I guess it’s mostly in the prep work , the trigger guard looks Amazing
Thank you
Hmmmmm interesting, I was recently given a electroplating machine that costed couple grand back in the 80s ,it has a reverse polarity that can strip off the nickel “or so he told me” not shure if it would, but I only got the machine nothing else, it looks like it won’t take much by the looks of this video before I can try and plate something, I’m going to have to try this
Yeah but reversing the polarity you can strip nickel off. You want to use just vinegar. And a bolt for the negative. If you used the same nickel solution as for plating. it would contaminate it
Looks so great. Wish they'd plate the repro grip frames more often.
That qtip trick has me eyeballing guitar parts actually ...
I wish they would to. Most cap and ball original colts were silver plated on the trigger guard and backstrap. Give it a try. Its easy
Yummy guns 🔫
Hey snapper hope recieved an old man's ramblings, and it was coherent enough to understand.
Mountain man
Hey mountain man hope you're doing good buddy
Put up a test video this afternoon
I saw you video and i am here to help if you need it. Also i am happy to do shout outs to you brother let me know when you are ready for me to do so. Glade to hear you are part of this video making family.
@@snappers_antique_firearms thank you may get an actual channel account
What were you using to prep the trigger, some kind of rubbing compund? Or just q-tips?
I like to cut a q-tip in half. Then put that q-tip in a Dremmel tool. Dip the q-tip in a metal Polish. It works surprisingly well.
Do you have a link for your power supply
Doing a job I've been wanting to do.
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I couldn't find the exact one I have because it's an older model but this is the exact same thing
My brother and I nickled a cheap Centennial revolver shot also I noticed you fire blue the trigger we did a you birding Calvary 73 the whole gun fire blued
It would be so beautiful to fire blue a whole gun.
We had to do the barrel in receiver twice
We put it in the toaster oven until it turns purple then we took it out and slowly worked it till it went blue
And I learned all that watching you man
@@louisianagray8618 i have to try that someday
So were these ever plated in nickel?
Original colts most were silver plated on the trigger guard and backstrap. Every colt i own accept my 1860 Army. all had silver trigger guards and back straps. Most guns have no trace of this left on them unless you take the grips off. under the grip you will still see silver. I could not silver plate when i made these videos. so we just went with nickel. Plus it doesn't tarnish over time. Nickel plating didn't really become a thing till the late 1870s and early 1880s. So guns made prior to that they used silver.
How long did it take for you?
When it was all polished and just putting it in the solution took me 15-20 minutes