Re: Gazing balls

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Ed,

Interesting,  Maybe some kind of dye like they use on aluminum or something. 
Perhaps a vacuum deposition thing...  Since it is for outdoors, they were tying
hard to make it last :-)

Cheers,

        Terry


At 04:48 PM 12/14/2001 -0500, you wrote: 
>
> Terry, 
>
> Well, I went to the sale at Michael Gordon Ltd. today.  As far as gazing
> balls go, they are only selling painted ones that are scratched.  I bought a
> 12" ball thinking that I could just remove the paint.  It turns out not to be
> an easy job.  I tried laquer thinner but it would not touch it.  Now I am
> working on it in our parts beader at work.  After about one half hour of
> work, I have about 20% done.  It will look nice when I do finally get it
> cleaned up.  There appears to be a layer of chrome on top of the stainless
> steel with paint over that.  I think they buy them all like that then have
> some painted. 
>
> Ed Sonderman