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Nickle Plating Info

Postby Becco Lunatico » Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:03 am

Thought this very informative!

http://www.finishing.com/237/73.shtml
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Re: Nickle Plating Info

Postby entrancedbymyGCC » Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:58 pm

Thanks for posting that! That was very useful. Some birds will chew through the nickel plating and get to the zinc layer, for those birds stainless is probably better. Fortunately, neither of mine seems inclined to chew the hanging hardware.
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Re: Nickle Plating Info

Postby Becco Lunatico » Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:28 pm

I thought the whole site was an interesting one! I am researching all the embellishments I put on the bird vest I made (pic posted around here somewhere...), wanting to make a few vests for friends but want to have solid info on each sewn-on article...
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Re: Nickle Plating Info

Postby lotus15 » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:34 am

We have a stainless-ONLY rule here... we had a bird that got heavy metal poisoning from a nickel-plated bell :(
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