Gadgetory

got some parts loaded in the back of the car so we're on my way to the plating shop where I'm going to get the powder coating stripped from any parts that are already powder coated and then I'm also going to be getting quotes on gold plating the Copperhead blocks as well as I'm going to get a quote on gold plating the top piece of the Copperhead Ram or doing the EVGA classified card I'm also going to have the powder coating stripped off the Apogee HD hold down because it's a little bit scratched and the rate is the same pretty much no matter how many little things I do at this point so I'm just bringing along everything that I need and here we go off to North Vancouver so here I am at specialty plating it is a lot of my time is it 8:05 so they told me to come by at around 8:15 and they'll show me the procedure so obviously a lot want to get that on the camera for you guys that they're going to use to strip the paint off of my TJ oh seven parts so that's going to be pretty cool and then another thing that we're also going to do while we're here is rotations on some of the parts that I may or may not get the plating changed or upgraded on yeah so this will be interesting we're going to head the side as soon as they as soon as they get here at around quarter after so I'm inside specialty plating now so we've got a bunch of cool stuff going on here these are the copper hooks that they use to submerge these rods into the various tanks they've also got a wide variety of different chemicals so this one right here was pointed out this is the gold tank right here this one is the reverse you're gonna have to remind me sorry versatile system this is the reverse electrolysis for Chrome and then this guy is the caustic soda tank so the caustic soda tank aha sodium hydroxide can cause chemical burns it is really bad and you should not even get that close to it so I'm not going to be here for long guys but this is what we're going to be using essentially to strip the powder coating off of my case so this one right here is actually a sacrificial piece that we're throwing in the big tank just to show you guys what happens but my case will actually be put in a smaller non heated tank because the metal actually can't handle the strain of the of the large heated tank or for an extended period of time that would be required to remove all the paint and grime and gunk so this tank they also used to you use wait to use this one to clean on any external yeah so any external dirt so for example after these guys are made of okay I can't remember what these are made of but these are cast iron so what they're doing is they're polishing it up and then you get a little bit of grime left on it so before they can put it in for nickel plating they use this tank for that as well so guys it was only in for about 30 seconds but you can see see the powder coating has remained but I actually painted the backs of these so you can see the actual spray paint came off almost immediately in that solution so they're going to need some more time with the powder coated parts and once that's done I will be sending them off to mountain mods for powder coating so I think this pretty much covers the the paint stripping portion of our video don't forget to subscribe and thank you for watching actually I figure while I'm here I might as well show you guys some of the work that they do so I showed you these polished pieces here that we're preparing for cleaning so I probably shouldn't be touching these they have a dust cover on them so I'm not going to get in trouble but I want to bring you guys over to where these have come out of the gold tank also the the gentleman here who's showing me around showed me the sulfuric acid tank he said the reason they're not using that for my case is that it can eat away at the metal especially because I am using particularly thin pieces of metal designed for computer cases rather than you know automotive or anything like that so let's come over here and have a look at a more of a finished product so these are those pieces that we looked at just now before but with gold plating and these are polished right as well yeah these are polished as well so you can see the level of reflectiveness in these materials it looks just outstanding so that's one of the reasons why I'm also thinking of getting some gold plating done for the build to go with the Apogee HD limited edition water bloggers oh and he's bringing me over here now too apparently there's even more good stuff there's also glue but you can't really see the gold because of the lightning ball it's hard to see that yeah it's hard to see the goal but the lights better over here I don't want to wreck the packaging or anything but yeah you can see they actually do quite a bit of different plating work you can go to their site just google specialty plating so they're in North Vancouver it's a bit of a trek for me but I've dealt with these guys before on a previous project and even though we didn't manage to to get it done they were very accommodating throughout the whole process so here I am back