Need to Remove a Copper Plating? Super Pickle is the Hero.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Learn to remove the copper plating that sometimes happens when soldering or an accidental contamination in your pickle.
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Super pickle is great for removing copper plating that happens when you work with brass. It can even happen accidentally when you have a contaminated jewelry pickle. With a little bit of hydrogen peroxide, you can create a great solution that will make quick work of removing that undesired plating.
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This just saved my life! Accudentally copper plated a few snake chains in old pickle and with a client coming round in an hour I had to get them back to their silver state ASAP. This worked instantly. Phew. Thank you!
Oh yay. I am so glad it was helpful.
This also works for silver and sterling silver that has been plated with copper, as well. Great video.
Yes, I use it for that as well. Glad you liked the video.
I am amazed I was using vinegar and salt until I found you with this i know of someone who has a pool so I asked for some of the stuff you described smells much like chlorine however it does work still in process about getting a crock pot and then trying the hydrogen peroxide still an important improvement in the brilliance of my chain maille crafts with only the pool chemicals not at all trying the peroxide part yet nice really really nice thank you for sharing
Glad it was helpful. I never noticed a chlorine smell with mine.
Thanks for showing this in progress. It was great meeting you in Philadelphia last month. :)
I appreciate you very much as I have a copper plated rosary and it is getting on my nerves. Thanks to you I might have the solution to this ordeal.
Thank you. Good luck. It could also have been silver plated. So if it was copper and just plated, the plating might be worn off.
Can you tell me more about the peroxide you use please, here in the UK it is either 3% food grade or 3% upwards to 12% for hair colouring or bleaching, thanks.
I just love your videos...I learn so many tricks and tips. Thank you!
Thank you, I am so glad you find them helpful.
I have a silver accent on this brass ring im making and it got copper coated and this method didnt work for some reason. I have no idea what happened and i cant find anything on how to get it off
Thanks for sharing
Thank you Melissa! Very helpful!❤
Thank you. Glad it was helpful.
Great tute! TY.
I am curious if this process would remove the copper plate from copper plated aluminum wire? If so could the copper be recovered afterwards?
Great Information as always Melissa, thank you so much for your wonderful videos! :-)
Thank you
Is super pickle safe for Gold fill? No matter what I do my Gold Fill turns pink when soldering. I have my torch on the lowest setting and using easy 14K gold solder. My pickle has been changed so it's not that.
Yes. It is. At least when I have done it.
I am really struggling. I have been stripping some chrome off of a very expensive solid brass faucet . It has been a nightmare. First time stripping anything and thinking maybe I did some things wrong and perhaps accidentally plated more copper onto the metal? Either way... Some of the faucet pieces came out nicely ( brass) and others still have so much rose gold on them I cannot remove it for the life of me. Tried this method last night and really didn't do much except shine the copper up. I used a stainless steel bowl to soak my pieces in my pickle. Bad? I don't have a crockpot but i did use scalding water. What am I doing wrong? Is the plating too thick?
I am afraid that I am not much help on this one as I have never tried with hardware like this. Could it be the hardware isn’t really solid copper?
Melissa, I am doing a LARGE brass piece (9" x 14") that won't fit into my pickle pot. If I soak paper towels/cloth in the super pickle and lay it on the soldered brass, will that work as well?
I haven’t tried that. But you could try that. I would think if it is wet enough, it just may work.
Or maybe find a plastic container like those for scrapbooking maybe?
How do you remove old brass plating from metal
herodog1 If something like this doesn’t work, then I would think that it would have to be removed with various abrasives.
Do you know if the super pickle mix would affect the brass or zinc under the copper plating? Thank you :)
There may be a little bit of etching that happens, but It will polish right back up without a problem.
@@MelissaMuir Thank you :) We were able to get it down to zinc with no apparent etching. We added two more pennies and it started to plate the original again. :P
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Thanks Melissa, I learnt something new, is that pendant you are wearing resin or enamel
Thank you. It is enamel. The other side is black. :D
Copper plata ma e un metallo prezioso si ho no
Have you method for copper plating on non metallic substrate?
I do not. But there are others that have done a lot of plating and they may have had better success with some of that.
Hello, I have an antique oval frame that was my great-great grandmothers. I thought it was brass and I cleaned it with Bar Keepers Friend and now it looks copper/rose gold. Do you think it was just copper or am I able to get it back to its brass color?
I am not sure if it was just plated or what happened.
Thank you so much for this!! The main problem I'm having and I don't know if you have a solution is that my brass pieces oxadize to a dark brown SO fast and I don't want to sell it cus it looks so cheap an bad! Is there anything I'm doing wrong or is there a way to prevent it? No matter how many times I polish it it happens within a day or so😩
Yes. You can put a coat of lacquer or renaissance wax to help seal it.
Melissa thank you so much and delighted I found you.
Have you ever used citric acid, used for canning, to clean your copper or do you know anything about it? If you do, please share?
Linda Carman yes. I have used it. It works okay and similar to the ph down. For me, the ph down works a little bit more efficiently.
Cool...if you wanted to control it etching the copper you could try masking it with packing tape. Would this pickle als work on silver that has been accidentally copper plated?
That is a good idea. I haven't tried that. But I sometimes have some of the gummy residue from the tape that is a pain to work with and In this case it would be easier to just polish the metal as the etching is just on the very top surface. But I can see how that would be helpful on more delicate pieces. And yes, this method will also work on silver or gold that was accidentally plated.
Thanks for a great tip, I do have a couple of questions. Once you make your super pickle and use can you let it set to use it again at a later date and where did you get the baby crock pot. I love the pH and have been using it for a while and you can get a lot of pickle for your bucks. Again thanks for sharing and thanks for response in advance.!!
Thanks. The super pickle will only be good for a couple of hours. After that the second Oxygen molecule is dropped and it becomes regular pickle. That is the nice thing about this because then you can just add it to your existing pickle.... assuming it isn't contaminated. Or if this is your new batch of pickle, you don't have do anything to it because it just becomes regular pickle. I think I picked up my baby crock pot at a garage sale or thrift store. I think I paid like $2. :D
i tried metal brush to dust of my brass hardware on my bag and now it slightly turned pink on some spots
what should i use to get it yellow again?
Are you sure the hardware was brass? It may have just been plated. When I have had that happen, it turned out to be a yellow plating and it was worn down to the base metal.
Thanks Melissa. It is truly interesting where UA-cam searches land us. I was looking for an effective chemical reaction for removing copper plating from the bore of my rifle barrel which is stainless steel. But this is good! Maybe I can mix up a slurry and the hydroscopic effects might lend to its usefulness. Can you think of any other compounds?
That is good. I am glad you found it helpful. I don’t know if other compounds that do it also. This one works for me so I haven’t had a need to test any others. But it should work great on stainless.
Thanks for your time and replying!
Thank you this really helped!
That is great. I am so glad it was helpful.
How does this effect 14kt gold?
I use it with my 14kt gold, especially if it has nickel in it as the nickel doesn't always come clean with regular pickle for me.
How much water did you use?
Honestly, I don't know. I used enough to fill the small crock pot.
@@MelissaMuir no problem! Thankyou 😊
I used a pickle (distilled vinegar and peroxide) to remove some copper discolouration from my gold earrings. It turned them completely pink and dull. I haven’t been to restore them back to yellow gold. I did use another pickle with just 1:1 hot water and hydrogen peroxide but it didn’t work. Suggestions?? Would the addition of the PH down work? I do have some for our spa.
Are you sure that the gold wasn’t just a plating?
@@MelissaMuir I’m actually not certain but I did do an acid test because I am not sure of the metal to be honest. It didn’t corrode or turn black. It is not magnetic either. I thought it was low carat gold 10% or gold filled is my best guess. There is no marking. It was a beautiful bright yellow before I messed with it :-( . It’s possible I contaminated the pickle so I’m wondering if it’s worth trying again.
@@Heroine2me Sadly, it sounds like it was probably just a thin plating, especially if there is no karat stamp. It is hard to say without actually seeing them. I don’t know that the pickle is contaminated, but one way to check would be to throw a scrap of silver in to it and see if it copper plates. The fact that the earrings weren’t magnetic at all indicates that at least it isn’t iron.