Odd Question
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Heres an odd question for you all.
EON productions made the Golden Gun a couple of years ago. However, are spares available for the gun should any be damaged or lost etc. Does anyone have the answer ?
Kind regards
Mark
EON productions made the Golden Gun a couple of years ago. However, are spares available for the gun should any be damaged or lost etc. Does anyone have the answer ?
Kind regards
Mark
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Well EON licensed the reproduction prop but it was made by Factory Entertainment. The original production run is now sold out (finally) but one would imagine as the licensee they would hold a stock of spare parts. Best thing is to send them a message by their website or facebook page or perhaps wait for them to pm you on this very forum -{
I think that you have a better chance of getting a nibble off of Donk
Out of interest what part are you looking for and why ?
The Golden Guns sold out almost 2 years ago and the quantity of spare cufflinks we did have was exhausted some time ago. To be 100% honest there was quite a flurry of people who 'lost' the cufflink part at the same time fairly early on and that depleted the supply. However it tapered off almost as abruptly and we have not had any requests for spares in over 8 months.
Our replicas are not really designed to require replacement parts. With careful handling they are designed to provide a lifetime of enjoyment. We do however try to predict and hold replacements for parts people might loose or damage. But once they run out that's it. It is just not practical for us to hold unlimited stocks of every single component for every product in perpetuity.
The replicas are designed to be kept intact inside their display cases/stands and we do not recommended people store them any other way. The chances of loosing small but vital components is just too great .
Our apologies
If it helps the technical specs are as follows;
The radius of the cufflinks threaded bar is 1.4mm , and the length of the shank is 15mm. The thread is a standard clockwise thread.
A good machinist may be able to fabricate you something that would serve the same function and lock the other parts together. But creating something with the same aesthetic look and spring loaded blades, with 18kt gold plating will probably be prohibitively expensive.
The replica will display without the cufflink, but the parts will not be locked together and care should be taken when handling as they may come apart.
Good luck!
I am contacting you with regards to the Golden Gun I bought.
I have kept the gun in the display case and have just noticed the gold paint has started to change colour in patches. It is more of a brown now. Do you know why this has happened and if there's a way of repairing it/ treating it?/As I said, it has just been in the display case. It has never been played with. It is mainly the handle/ part that sits in your palm while holding it that this damage has occurred to. I can send pics if required. Do you know what metal it is? Or if there's a method that can be used to clean it up/ get rid of these obvious brown patches. Hope to hear from someone soon. Perhaps you have a spare part? Many thanks, James
The plating is too thin to allow some degree of wear, it can easily be worn off and then the material tarnishes.
These are the brown spots that you see.
To get rid of them you may try CAREFULLY some liquid and clear silver cleaner (Hagerty) applied on a cotton pad.
Wipe CAREFULLY AND WITHOUT pressure over the dark spot and hope for the best.
Replating the entire thing may be another option but you won't achieve the gold tone which came originally.
@ FE: Have the GGs been PVD plated?
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Oh dear higgybumbum, you're really not on form recently. Brass is an alloy....
I'd say it's more likely something like Zamak instead.
Brass alloy indeed....
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For sure there are brass alloys with varying content of Cu and ZN 8-)
So, how do you call these? CuZn alloys or simply brass alloys? We here do the second 8-)
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Unlike the SDS edition, the FE guns are clear-coated; for any metal polish to be effective, that coating would need to be stripped first. My guess is the discoloration is actually moisture, oils, or other chemical interaction with the clear-coat. If it were the plating being too thin, that would likely have shown from the start, not over time.
If there really is a clear-coating - it's obviously not fully intact anymore - otherwise the item would not tarnish.
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The high the carrat of gold, the less susceptible it is to tarnishing. Gold itself does not tarnish, however as the carrat rating decreases, the amount of other metals (ie silver and copper) increases. It's mainly the copper that is oxidising and causing the tarnishing in lower carrat electroplated items.
The FE gg's were apparently plated in 18ct, which shouldn't tarnish too easily. But, like others have previously stated, the plating is very thin and soft, so repeated disassembly and assembly will quickly wear the plating away, allowing oxygen to get in under any clear coat and in extreme cases, under the actual plating where it'll start to spread.
Various things aside oxygen can cause tarnishing, mainly acids found in sweat, the air and in perfumes. Luckily, my gg hasn't tarnished at all, but I took these precautions;
- I never handle it without wearing soft cotton gloves.
- When I got it I decided to display it assembled. I carefully assembled it and have never taken it apart since.
- I display it away from sunshine to avoid UV issues and it getting too hot
- It's displayed away from the kitchen to avoid acids from fruit and other things like onions getting to the gg.
- The gg is displayed in its own case which is then inside my display cabinet.
- I do not and will not take it out, pass it around or play with it. This includes my gg as well.
- I have never used any polishes or treatments to make it shine. It shone out the box and continues to do so without me ever needing to clean it.
If there isn't a clear coat, and you do hold it with bare hands I would strongly recommend cleaning it with pure acetone before putting it away. If there is a clear coat, the acetone will eat it. DO NOT USE NAIL POLISH REMOVER - it contains, but is not pure acetone.
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If you choose to keep it installed please use a measured amount of lubrication.
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Could be looking at some sort of galvanic reaction: While the balance is brass, the stem isn't.