Plating Pedals

[Laurence Beach]

>
>>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