Kursosawa, I know I thanked you via PM, but figured it couldn't hurt to say it again. Thanks for putting this information out there and helping me out.
I'm currently stripping my spare CO toy and will be moving onto the remote next so hopefully I'll have a thread of my own soon enough.
I'm just curious, in your conversions, have you ever sanded down any of the copper parts to see just what's under there? I'm sure it's some sort of pot metal, but I'd be curious how deep we could sand into the surface before we lost the copper color. It would be useful for toning down the shine of the copper sections, or possibly even figuring out ways to modify them.
...if you haven't I might just have to try it on the inside of the ring that fits above the remote's battery compartment to see what I can find.
-Nick