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letter 30100
How to strip and repolish a brass
trumpet
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How to strip and repolish a brass trumpet and where to
purchase supplies? Has spots that show the base coat. The
inside of the bell of the trumpet (HUANG)(Made in
China)(This number is on the middle valve 254) has little
spots. It has little black spots and large blank flat brass.
William Jared S.
Student - Dobson, North Carolina, USA
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The best way to do a project like that, William, may be
to take it to an instrument store or a plating shop.
It's certainly not impossible for you to refinish your
trumpet yourself, but calculate how much time you have spent
learning to play the trumpet, and how many words your
instructors have said to you in your career, against how
well you have learned to play by now. If you spend that much
time on metal finishing, and read that many words, you'll be
as good at metal finishing as you are at playing trumpet :-)
Do you really want to start that process? If so, check
our Chemicals &
Consumables directory for "buffing supplies" and
"lacquers" and see volume 1 of the
Metal Finishing Guidebook.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
finishing.com Inc. - Brick,
NJ
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