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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2789136, member: 27832&quot;]I don&#039;t have any experience with rhodium plating, but a bit of Googling indicates that step one in the process is <b>cleaning and polishing</b> the piece to be plated. Do you find that this often isn&#039;t done?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for <i>removing</i> a rhodium-plating layer, rhodium is a platinum-group metal, and I&#039;m not sure how you&#039;d attack it without attacking the underlying gold. If there&#039;s a nickel preplating layer, maybe you can get through to that and loosen it from underneath...? I remember coming across an article some time back on ionic liquids that can selectively attack some platinum-group metals while sparing others, but I don&#039;t think that&#039;s made it into commercial practice yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still think it&#039;s a color-balance issue. I&#039;ll try to get some pictures this evening showing the effect, but it&#039;ll be hard, given all the time I&#039;ve spent learning to <i>avoid</i> the effect...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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