hi there today I want to show you well some parts
which are parts from music instrument I don't even know what it called but
they're about 100 years old or so as you can see some some people will know what
it is or this for was a customer they're made out of German silver recalled which
is a nickel silver yeah the nickel silver basically so I need to
polish them all and all basically silver plate proper silver plate not nickel
silver so just want to show what the process is and how I do it so normally I
polish them all some of them are really bad like this one is quite rough as well
and or here is really rough Seoul needs to be very very good polish to work what
you do before before you plate if I would play this now this would look
horrible would look really bad it must be shiny they want to have a
shiny they're already in a bad condition we do bird so I'll show you how I take
this one or one of them here or maybe this one this is very rough but also
this one is very rough I take this one and show you how to prepared properly
with a polishing of and then - RIA is not important but now shoulders
in a minute so first of all I'll show you to set up a couple of things sheet a
couple of machines what I use some plaster as well and things like this
write data policy mops this is the machine you can get them from I've got
it for machine Mark Clark there's a clock one I've got another one down
there which is the different makers of this German they make down there anyway
this is the machine it's not very powerful you don't need really a lot of
power if you use the six inch mops so you use a normal bench grinder
they call you says your bench grinder eight inch
oh it says eight sorry original 8 inch wheels on it but I use six there is six
it so I'll show you look then you take this the things off here the original
ones take them off take them apart and then you get them from machine Mart or
you kill him online here this this kind of stuff here where you put all you yeah
this one on anywhere so I've got three different mops and I'll show you them
three different mops polishing ops
one is if you have a really bird like this is quite bad really especially if
you have a lot of scratches on now then I use this one this is a very hard one
this is the first stage when I use I put always the name on it that I don't mix
them up this is green I put green on and I put on now whatever the name of the
mop is it's a very hard one very very hard so I use this compound I always put
it together don't mix it up first stage when you have a really rough one if you
have it already kind of shiny or so I go to the second stage straightaway or
sometimes I even go to the third stage straightaway which is here yeah I've got
it already on and the third is this one the yellow one this is the second one
also it's a little bit rougher than the last one it's a blue loose mop yeah it's
a little bit different than the last one but a lot finer than this one
use the blue compound for the last one of course the final finished this one is
really really soft so you can feel it is a little bit harder this one is really
soft and use this yellow this is the middle wall true so if you start here
with a very
you know rough water you need to do this as well afterwards and then this unless
you want to have it not that shiny because this brings out the last shine
here and this is the final basically I also have a mask which is very important
the full mask it covers the whole face safety is important
it's getting really dirty when you use this machine a lot of dust and
everything so I'll put this on right so now I'll put it on the machine so I use
this one as an example as I said it's chairman silver and see how it goes it's
really bad if you put your fingers on a half cup of clubs on although I still
can feel this is really rough it's really not ruff has never ever been
polished they told me so I'll put it on now and then have a go so I use this one
first put it on and how I do I switch it on
right now it gets a little bit noisy put the compound on here's the compound I
showed you something
so that's the first step looks okay first step now I change them up call
them up looks like it's got a lot of cop on now change them up to the second one
which is this one
another final snake
right it's basically done though all polished from stage 1 to stage 3
just apartments they just put just up you can see all done now needs cleaning
and then this is the item and then you can plate it whatever you want but a
shoulders in another video in a next video I put up I showed how I clean this
item comes very important to clean a very well after polishing order compound
is left there yeah and then I show how to silver plate it's evening this German
silver which is nickel silver but the customer wants the proper silver plated
because it's different it is different yeah okay that's it for today
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