Nickel stripper
Three dips in the solution, no more nickel on my Thompson receiver. Like the instructions say room temperature (80 degrees) is good, 90 degrees is better, 100 degrees is better yet.
Works exactly as advertised.
We have a batch of hundreds of brass parts with an internal female thread that were electroless nickel plated. No masking on the threads, so they got plated and the threading tolerances got thrown off. Hand tapping them required a specialty tap, was incredibly difficult, and dulled the taps like crazy. We filled the holes with this stuff and let it sit for a few hours. Remove stripper, clean with water, done. It ate the nickel and didn't mess with the brass threads. Absolutely perfect. Saved SOOOO much work, time, and money.
Just used on a Reg. Mag
I mixed the chemicals as stated with distilled water. I mixed half of the chemicals with the water and soaked the Smith for about 6 hours in 85f air temperature. All nickle that I could find was gone, but the polished metal underneath looked like nickle so I let it sit overnight. The gun had two small springs that could not be removed, but the process loosened the nickle so that I could remove the screws that were too tight before I soaked it. The spri ngs were fine after the soaking. Also, I pre-treated all metal with a crud cutter product that is a degreaser and then rinsed with regular water. I have posted treated the metal with a light oil and I will be sending it off for finishing. Also, I mixed the second half and placed it back in the orginal containers for use another day!
This product works!
I used Brownell's nickel stripper to remove the nickel plate from a 35 year old Colt GM slide and receiver in 40 minutes (80 degrees).
Works Well But.....
Works well if the gun is electroless nickle plated. I put a chemically nickel plated 1911 in a glass dish with the stripper and set it in my sink with very hot water surrounding it. It took about three hours and it stripped all the nickel off easily. I had another nickel plated WWII 1911 that was plated with electricity and the stripper did nothing even after five days. If it is electro plated, just reverse the process with a battery and then use Caswells Copper strip to remove the copper flash coating.
Good job but costly
I used this kit to strip an S&W M25. I did a good job, but took the whole two bottle kit. I used Acetone to de grease all parts per the instructions. My first attempt at everything but the frame, after ~ 5 hours the 3 1/3 cups of mixed chemical were the color of dark coffee and most of the big parts, cylinder and yoke, were still plated. I then disposed of the used chemicals and replaced with 3 1/3 of fresh chemicals. This completed all of the parts. I then disposed of the second batch of used chemicals and mixed up the remaining chemicals as per the instructions and de plated the frame. It worked but I think it was a bit costly, local prices to strip were ~ 1/2 the cost of the kit.
slow but it works
it was slow 10 hr latter , i followed directions as discribed, it did work, gun was a old mauser m-hcs nickel plated by someone, if it was maybe warmer than 70 degrees it may have been faster,
Didnt work for me.
The spec sheet clearly says that this product works on 95% of nickel plating. I must of had a 1911 that fell under the other 5%. I tried everything including keeping the solution at 100 for well over 16 hours and soaked for a total of 48hrs. I hung the parts & mixed the solution properly. I believe that this would work, I just think I had the nickel that wouldnt strip. Brownells wouldnt sell it if it didnt work but I wanted to share my experiences.
Limited use.
The item I was trying to stripe was a 1885 Winchester receiver (dated mid 1920's). Follow the directions by using paint measure cups and allow the items to soak for 3 days. A very small area had stripe but overall had very little affect. I mixed a new batch and tried again and still no results.
Did not work for me!
Left a electroless nickel Colt frame in the solution for 6 hours. It didn't so much as etch the nickel. Ended up sand blasting it off. Returned for refund. Brownell refunded with no problem. I think with over 20 years business with Brownells this is the first return and they came thru A-1.
