Re: [OM] Brassing

[Dirk Wright]

>There's a guy in Japan that paints old brass cameras.  He strips the 
old 
>chrome off using industrial chrome remover and then bakes on a new 
>finish.  It wouldn't work on Titanuim though.  Olympus had a devil of 
a 
>time getting the paint to stay on those.  I don't know what the OM-1 
or 
>OM-2 tops are made of .

Brass us hard to paint also, but easy to plate. I'm pretty sure that 
both brass and titanium can be powder coated easily. 

Be seeing you.


Dirk Wright

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