Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 5 - My Trip to the Plating Shop to Get Paint Removed Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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got some parts loaded in the back of the car so we're on my way to the plating
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shop where I'm going to get the powder coating stripped uh from any parts that
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are already powder coated and then I'm also going to be getting quotes on gold
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plating the copperhead blocks as well as
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I'm going to get a quote on gold plating the top piece of the copperhead RAM or
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uh doing the EV GA classified card I'm
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also going to have the powder coating stripped off the Appo HD hold down cuz
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it's a little bit scratched and the rate is the same pretty much no matter how
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many little things I do at this point so I'm uh just bringing along everything
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that I need and here we go off to North Vancouver so here I am at specialty
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plating it is uh hold on what time is
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it 8:05 so they told me to come byy at
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around 8:15 and they'll show me the pred so obviously I'll want to get that on
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the camera for you guys um that they're going to use to strip the paint off of
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my tj07 parts uh so that's going to be
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pretty cool and then another thing that we're also going to do while we're here
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is uh get quotations on some of the parts that I may or may not get the
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plating changed or upgraded on
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um yeah so this will be interesting we're going to head inside as soon as
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they as soon as they get here at around quarter after so I'm inside specialty
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plating now so we've got a bunch of cool stuff going on here these are the copper
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hooks that they use to submerge these rods into the various tanks they've also
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got a wide variety of different chemicals so uh this one right here was
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pointed out this is the gold tank uh right here this one is the reverse
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you're going to have to remind me sorry reverse elect this is the reverse
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electrolysis for Chrome and then this guy is thetic soda tank costic soda tank
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so thetic soda tank ah sodium hydroxide
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can cause chemical burns it is really bad and you should not even get that
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close to it so I'm not going to be here for long guys but this is what we're
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going to be using essentially to strip the powder coating off of my case you
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ready so this one right here is actually a sacrificial piece that we're throwing
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in the big tank just to show you guys what happens but um my case will
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actually be put in a smaller nonheated
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tank because the metal actually can't handle the strain of the of the large
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heated tank for uh for an extended
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period of time that would be required to remove all the paint and grime and Gunk
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so this tank they also use to you use wait you use this one to clean off any
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external dirt yeah so any external dirt so for example after uh these guys are
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made of okay I can't remember what these are
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made of but these are cast iron so what they're doing is they're polishing it up
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and then you get a little bit of grime left on it so before they can put it in
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for nickel plating they use this tank for that as
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well so guys it was only in for about 30 seconds but you can see see the powder
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coating has remained but I actually painted the backs of these so you can
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see the actual spray paint came off almost immediately in that solution so
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they're going to need some more time with the powdercoated parts and once
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that's done I will be sending them off to Mountain mods for Powder Coating so I
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think this pretty much covers the uh the paint stripping portion of our video
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don't forget to subscribe and thank you for watching actually I fig while I'm
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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
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preparing for cleaning so uh I probably shouldn't be touching these they have a
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dust cover on them so hopefully I'm not going to get in trouble but I want to
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bring you guys over to where these have come out of the gold tank um also the uh
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the gentleman here who's showing me around showed me the sulfuric acid tank
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he said the reason they're not using that for my case is that it can eat away
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at the metal especially because I am using um particularly thin pieces of
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metal designed for computer cases rather than you know Automotive or anything
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like that so let's come over here and have a look at a more of a finished
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product so these are those pieces that we looked at just now before but with
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gold plating and these are polished right as well yeah these are polished as
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well so you can see the level of reflectiveness in these materials it
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looks just outstanding so that's one of the reasons why I'm also thinking of
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getting some gold plating done for the build to go with the Apple ghd limited
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edition water block oh and he's bringing me over here
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now too apparently there's even more good stuff there's also gold but you can't really see the gold because of the
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lighting oh it's hard to see the yeah it's hard to see the gold but the light's better over
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here well I don't want to wreck the packaging or anything but yeah you can
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see they actually do quite a bit of uh different plating work you can go to
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their site just Google specialty plating so they're in North Vancouver it's a bit
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of a trek for me but I've dealt with these guys before on a previous project
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and even though we didn't manage to to get it done they were very accommodating
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throughout the whole process so here I am back again