Rusty Ornate Hinge Restoration - Copper Plating | Random Restoration

Welcome! In today's video I will be restoring a couple of old rusty ornate hinges, likely from the late 1800s. That's right, another day, another hardware restoration haha.

I started this hinge restoration, as per usual, with the disassembly of these rust covered hinges. Although this was quicker than usual, the hinge pins in each hinge were quite difficult to remove, both because they were rusty and had paint over the years seep down the hinge pins. That's okay in my books, as I always love a rusty restoration! These would have made your average squeaky hinge seem like nothing! Once Disassembled it was time for some rust removal. Since I don't have a sand blasting cabinet I use a rust remover - It's very effective and works great to remove rust from every hard to reach area. Instead of paint stripping using paint stripper, I let them sit in the rust remover for a week. This loosened up any remaining paint and allowed for easy paint removal.

Following this all parts were cleaned with an abrasive buff, wire wheeled and then it was time for sanding. Upon sanding down the rough pitted areas I noticed that no matter how much I sanded there was always a fine air pocked/bubble texture that ran throughout the entire hinge. As such, there was no way to mirror polish these parts, so I polished them as much as possible and that was that.

After all parts were polished as much as possible I decided to work on the hinge that had a broken hinge pin. I had to figure out how to repair the damage, and decided the best option for me (as I don't have a welder) would be an excessive quantity of body filler. With the hinge repair complete it was time to get the hardware ready for electroplating. I had to spend a huge amount of time cleaning the parts. Each one half hinge pin (there are four halves) took about two and a half hours to three hours to clean. In total, I spent approximately 12-15 hours cleaning all of the parts in preparation for electroplating.

I started by nickel plating the hardware, then I moved on to copper plating all of the parts. After this, I decided to paint the recessed area black. Painting the recessed areas was very common in old ornate door hardware, and it makes all of the intricate details pop. All of the parts were painted with a clear coat to protect them from tarnish. Then there was one last thing to do before assembling them: bluing the non-plated hinge pin. Bluing steel is always enjoyable to watch, unless you allow me to get an awful camera angle while doing it haha. Then it was time to get these beautiful antique hinges reassembled. This is always a very satisfying part to any restoration for me, as it's the trash to treasure moment, where you see the huge difference between the unrestored piece(s) and the freshly restored piece(s).

This is a restoration that I figured would go really quickly, but instead took way longer than anticipated to restore. Although I can't claim it to be a perfect restoration, maybe I can instead call it an awesome restoration? I'll let you decide haha.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Welcome!
0:25 Disassembly
1:59 Disassembly Complete
2:38 Paint Removal
3:06 Cleaning and Wire Wheeling
4:29 Sanding Rough Areas
5:28 Polishing
6:10 Questionable Repairs in Progress
7:04 Electroplating Prep
8:19 Electroplating
10:52 Painting Recessed Areas
13:30 Reassembly
14:53 Reassembly Complete
15:33 Before and After
16:23 Thanks for Watching!

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