I can usually remove chrome plating with an overnight soak in bleach. However, I’ve had this particular part soaking for about 3 days and the plating is still holding on tight. Anyone ever run into stubborn plating like this before? any suggestions for removing it? A plan “B”…
Plan B:
I have found that bleach will get old, or stale if it’s old stuff you’re using. I encountered this same problem and when I bought a fresh bottle of bleach, the chrome came right off.
If you want to remove it to just paint over it, a good primer will adhere to plating, so you don’t really need to remove it.
Plan B by Tom should be Plan A. I have had horrible results with bleach and even tried the Coke idea. Nothing works like Easy Off in the Yellow Can. Don’t know why, but it has to be the Yellow Can.
What dirk and Don said—try a new bottle of bleach, and if that doesn’t work, just prime it over and paint it. I’ve done it many times.
Thanx for all of the input guys.
I have noticed that after a couple of uses, the bleach does seem to lose it “pizzazz” and changing to some new really seems to remove the chrome much better. However, this time, changing to new bleach had no effect on the grill in question. So, before reaching for my Easy-off, I cleaned, primed and painted over the grill as recommended. Seems like it’s got a pretty good “bite”. We’ll see.
I have since dropped some other plated parts into my bleach and the plating melted away in no time at all. Must have been some super adhesion of the chrome on this particular piece.
Thanx again for the advise
Can either the bleach or Easy-Off method be used with enough precision so as to remove just a small amount of chrome plating to aid in gluing?