Woah....awesome job so far. Can't wait to see how this one turns out! That thing was trashed!

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[COLOR="DarkRed"]Yeah...so if anyone ever wonders why these copper and chrome wrapped shells and drums always go for so damn cheap...now you know !

I did it once...and never again.

Curious though...what was the Freddie Wooten secret method ????[/COLOR]

With the price of copper these days you might recoop some of your money when ya take that piece of copper to the recycler.;)

Here's an idea...

Try to do the restoration of copper wrap on a chunk of that spare stuff that didn't get coated with those icky chemicals.

If you have a section, that would be a neat thread. Either you could do it or you could send it to me and I'll do it......well......my wife would actually do the work, but I'll take the credit, like any good man would. It needs to be a section that did not get hit with those chemicals. If you have a chunk, go for it. I'll walk you through it or not. Let me know.

The glue on the copper was the same glue that was used on all the other wraps, it was NOT anything different, it was all a white glue. It might look different after the copper is off on the shell because of a chemical reaction.

All I can tell you is I worked at the plant and put wraps on and my dad ran that department, and all the wraps used the same glue. The difference was the lap, copper and chrome used contact cement and all the plastic wraps used some sort of solvent that kind of "melted" the plastic together.only thing I can think of is some sort of reaction the copper had with the glue that the chrome didn't have that might make it harder to remove. How are you taking it off? I just stripped a shell using a heat gun and it took about twenty min. to do a 14" T.D.R. the heat gun seems to do a go job of loosening the glue so you can peel it off.

It has got to do with maybe corrosion of the copper wrap that the chrome didn't have. I've never had the "pleasure" of unwrapping a copper finish but I do have a copper T.D.R. in my stash, maybe I could play. Cool Dude

I won't be messing with that one anytime soon, my basement is starting to look like a drum warehouse with shells waiting to be finished, I can almost see my Magnum's behind the shells and boxes!