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 uh 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
uh doing the EV GA classified card I'm
also going to have the powder coating stripped off the Appo HD hold down cuz
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 uh just bringing along everything
that I need and here we go off to North Vancouver so here I am at specialty
plating it is uh hold on what time is
it 8:05 so they told me to come byy at
around 8:15 and they'll show me the pred so obviously I'll want to get that on
the camera for you guys um that they're going to use to strip the paint off of
my tj07 parts uh so that's going to be
pretty cool and then another thing that we're also going to do while we're here
is uh get quotations on some of the parts that I may or may not get the
plating changed or upgraded on
um yeah so this will be interesting we're going to head inside 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 uh this one right here was
pointed out this is the gold tank uh right here this one is the reverse
you're going to have to remind me sorry reverse elect this is the reverse
electrolysis for Chrome and then this guy is thetic soda tank costic soda tank
so thetic soda tank ah 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 you
ready 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 um my case will
actually be put in a smaller nonheated
tank because the metal actually can't handle the strain of the of the large
heated tank for uh for an extended
period of time that would be required to remove all the paint and grime and Gunk
so this tank they also use to you use wait you use this one to clean off any
external dirt yeah so any external dirt so for example after uh 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 powdercoated 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 uh the paint stripping portion of our video
don't forget to subscribe and thank you for watching actually I fig 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 uh I probably shouldn't be touching these they have a
dust cover on them so hopefully 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 um also the uh
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 um 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 Apple ghd limited
edition water block oh and he's bringing me over here
now too apparently there's even more good stuff there's also gold but you can't really see the gold because of the
lighting oh it's hard to see the yeah it's hard to see the gold but the light's better over
here well I don't want to wreck the packaging or anything but yeah you can
see they actually do quite a bit of uh 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 again