Black sidebars on a mpp?

[DemonSeed]

ohhh boy. I ordered a parks mpp about 3 years ago, and I just realized that it has black sidebars instead of chrome. I thought it was like larbels and you could just flip it over
what is the best way to fix this? are they chrome underneath the powdercoating/paint?
Im not contacting parks because its been 2 weeks since I sent a email about a graflex lever.

or should i just get it chromed? Im looking to do a complete ANH set so this just threw a monkey wrench into my machine. any help would be appreciated!

 

[Clutch]

just sand the black off. It will take some elbow grease, but it can be done.

 

[DemonSeed]

just sand the black off. It will take some elbow grease, but it can be done.

sweet clutch thanks. you always seem to have the solution! :eek

 

[Clutch]

I started mine very carefully on a grinding wheel. i then worked my way up through very coarse to very super fine sand paper wrapped around a block of wood. Final step was a polish with the Dremel tool and some polishing compound.

Just take your time. You can take metal away, but you can't add it back!

 

[dcarty]

You can also use Easy Off oven cleaner to strip the anodizing--that's what I did. Then touch up with some 0000 fine steel wool.

Dave

 

[DemonSeed]

the sanding took no time. thanks for reminding me of the steel wool. I noticed something on this saber. It looks like there is no room on the shroud for a dring!!!!