chrome coming off vamo v5 brass

[itsmeiank]

Iv noticed on the back of my vamo the chrome affect is wearing and exposing the brass below.

Just wondering what it would look like if i very fine sanded it with a wet and dry 600 grain or somethinf light and polished it up.

Has anyone tried this .

ADvise please

[dalealan]

Probably just as easy to stick a wrap over it. They're cheap as chips on fasttech

[itsmeiank]

I cant find any wraps

[dalealan]

Aug 8, 2014 22:03:32 GMT itsmeiank said:

I cant find any wraps

Here you go allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/43051/vamo-wraps?page=1&scrollTo=750642

[itsmeiank]

Fancied sanding to brass to see what it looks like ...

[buggritt]

www.fasttech.com/p/1631900

[dalealan]

Aug 8, 2014 22:06:12 GMT itsmeiank said:

Fancied sanding to brass to see what it looks like ...

Give it a whirl. if it looks crap you can always cover it up

[ronaldo]

Aug 8, 2014 22:07:14 GMT dalealan said:

Aug 8, 2014 22:06:12 GMT itsmeiank said:

Fancied sanding to brass to see what it looks like ...

Give it a whirl. if it looks crap you can always cover it up

and by roughening it up the wrap will stick better

[fred]

Think this is robby's image - he'd know how to do it

[robby]

I used wet and dry mostly, I started off with something coarser but it took forever to get it really flat again so I ended up with wet and dry and Brasso and elbow grease You`ll find you have to go through a layer of copper plating before you get to the brass. I think it must have needed that for the chrome plate to take well when the tubing was made.

[dalealan]

Aug 8, 2014 23:03:45 GMT robby said:

I used wet and dry mostly, I started off with something coarser but it took forever to get it really flat again so I ended up with wet and dry and Brasso and elbow grease You`ll find you have to go through a layer of copper plating before you get to the brass. I think it must have needed that for the chrome plate to take well when the tubing was made.

Now I like that robby hmmmm brass or silver?? 

[robby]

Aug 8, 2014 23:09:17 GMT dalealan said:

Aug 8, 2014 23:03:45 GMT robby said:

I used wet and dry mostly, I started off with something coarser but it took forever to get it really flat again so I ended up with wet and dry and Brasso and elbow grease You`ll find you have to go through a layer of copper plating before you get to the brass. I think it must have needed that for the chrome plate to take well when the tubing was made.

Now I like that robby hmmmm brass or silver?? 

When I was doing that, I was one button click away from buying a gold plating kit. I was on the Paypal "buy now" button stage but somehow resisted

[robby]

The pic above is the one where I was careful to stop at the copper on the tubing, the bottom cap and the buttons were down to brass, as was the top cap the next day

[dalealan]

Aug 8, 2014 23:15:41 GMT robby said:

The pic above is the one where I was careful to stop at the copper on the tubing, the bottom cap and the buttons were down to brass, as was the top cap the next day

It looks really nice, you did a good job there robby .... Gimme it 

[robby]

Aug 8, 2014 23:20:44 GMT dalealan said:

Aug 8, 2014 23:15:41 GMT robby said:

The pic above is the one where I was careful to stop at the copper on the tubing, the bottom cap and the buttons were down to brass, as was the top cap the next day

It looks really nice, you did a good job there robby .... Gimme it 

I did another one which looked better than that one, it actually got made as a prototype in a chinese factory which got sent to me by the owner of Vaporbreak, it didn`t end up in production, but I was still chuffed to bits. Must dig it out in the morning.