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Removing poor gold plating from stainless cutlery

Q. I have got beautiful set of stainless steel cutleries but unfortunately it is Gold plated and I want to remove the Gold plate without damaging stainless steel. Can someone help me out please.

Hemlata Amin
no involvement, only need help - Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom
August 14, 2010

Precipitated Chalk /
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A. Gold is softer than SS, remove it mechanically (precipitated chalk water mixture must be OK). Very tedious and dirty+needs lot of elbow grease.Any plater which can do gold plate on stainless can remove it too(probably expensive).Hope it helps and good luck!

Goran Budija
- Cerovski vrh Croatia

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