Indeed all good chrome jobs have both copper and nickel bases. Any good chrome shop, and most lousy ones can simply reverse the polarity in their tank, negatively charging the piece in question. I don't believe this piece got a "good" chrome job. at least I see no evidence of a copper base. I may just get it bead blasted and repolish it. The nice thing is it was polished already before it was chromed. The guy who owned it had it on a GT-500 show car. Why he chromed it is beyond me. It would have been better simply polished. I'm going to try to strip it without ruining the polished base, we'll see.
I was looking for a more, shall we say, home spun solution. Like a car battery jumper cables and a bath tub filled with methel-ethel bad stuff... Actually I'd considered sending this piece out for stripping but the cost in shipping is double the cost to do the work.
I got it cheap enough to put some time into it, so either way it will be a nice winter project. C3AE 8V manifiold, two 1850 Holley's and linkage for $400.
