It means to etch/dull the surface with an acid solution. Phosphoric
acid (as in Naval jelly or metal prep or Coca-Cola) might do the job.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Lemon <glemon@neb.rr.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:46 pm
Subject: Re: healey 100 Grill Finishing
> Thanks, does anyone know what "pickle" means in this context (below)?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David" <dcrawfor@san.rr.com>
> To: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:13 PM
> Subject: Re: healey 100 Grill Finishing
>
>
> > Greg Lemon asks:
> >
> > Does anyone know if a home method to replicate the satin finish
> on the
> > Healey 100 Grill?? I had a couple of bent pieces I
> straightened, but
> > in
> > doing so marred the finish a bit. Tried some fine sandpaper, but
> > finish was
> > too shiny.
> >
> > 1954 BN1
> >
> > ###
> >
> > All I could find was this post by Bill Barnett much earlier this
> year.> Probably doesn't help much... .
> >
> > DC
> >
> > ###
> >
> > Allen C Miller, Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > I can vouch that both grilles were old. The one from our car had
> > been
> > > replated, and the corners of the grill slats were rounded. The
> other> > had a relatively intact factory finish. My plater is
> going to
> > refinish
> > > the less intact grille and will be applying the foregoing. He will
> > > pickle the slats to get the proper matte effect on the sides, then
> > > stroke-sand the fronts, taking out the polish and at the same time
> > > correcting the former platers rounding. If the results are
> pleasing,> I
> > > will update the posting.
> > >
> > > The plater believes that, contrary to notions of 'annodizing' or
> > other
> > > specialty finishing of the grille slats to get the mat finish, it
> > was
> > > the factory's expedient finishing technique that accounts for the
> > > matte finish, and that a regular chrome plating was applied. In
> > other
> > > words, its the finishing of the surface metal, not the plating
> > > process, that accounts for the final result.
> >
> > I'm the second owner of my BN1 which was extremely original when I
> > purchased it in 1978. It had never had any type of restoration or
> > replating done, nor any front end damage. IOW it had the original,
> > from
> > the factory, satin finish slats.
> >
> > Around that time I was having much correspondence with John Wheatley
> > in
> > the UK about that very subject. He sent me a full size copy of the
> > blueprint for a 100 grill, "Issued for production 3.6.55" The parts
> > list on the lower left includes:
> >
> > 14B4568 RADIATOR GRILL. (BRASS SATIN CHROME FINISH - B.S. 1224. -
> > 1953.
> > Ni 5C).
> > 14B4569 RADIATOR GRILL SURROUND. (BRASS CHROMIUM PLATED &
> POLISHED -
> > B.S. 1224. - 1953. Ni 5C).
> >
> > When neither I or Eric Grunden at Absolutely British in Ontario, CA
> > could find a suitable plater to replicate it, many hours were
> spent by
> > hand cleaning up my original. Good luck.
> >
> > FWIW
> >
> > Bill Barnett
> > '53 BN1 #663
>
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