another update: gave the base its medium bench polish today, will wait until its all done until i give it a final polish [ATTACH]
Update: So it steel, tried the magnet trick last night. Just going to take the copper coating off and polish up the steel. Thanks everyone
Im pretty sure it is brass, i will check today. Im going to check with a magnet tonight and see so i will let you all know Thanks
The pressure pip is on the other side am sure, its the same base as my lamps so im guessing its brass. Ill try the magnet over that aswell though,...
Thats it before i started to strip it down. thanks for all your help
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This shows the top layer of copper thats polished and then the rusty bit next to it [ATTACH]
I tried to polish it thinking it was copper so some of it has came up as clean copper but where the rust is its asif the copper peeled off and its...
I thought they were copper aswell but its as if the copper coating is coming off leaving the steel. No i havent, hadnt thought of that i'll give...
Morning Looking for some advice if possible, I have recently bought a Tilley R1 heater and the reflector seems to be copper but has rust over...
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