Hello,

We had someone come in today , they want to remove an engraved name from a Silver plated tray's middle name plate section.

My tutor tried to use various emmery/stone attachments on the pend drill, but although this was successful to a point, the engraving is deep.

The tray is around 1.5 - 2mm thick towards the centre, the engraving in places looks around 3/4-1mm deep...we left it for today and we're back on it tomorrow....I was wondering if I should suggest to my tutor that he either drills and cuts the middle area out and relsolders a blank plate in its place...but as we don't have a big enough plating facility, obviously, by putting heat near the plating, this will lift, so an entire plating (Costly) job would send the finish price through the roof.

So my other thought, is for him/us to cement/solder a blank plate over the old engraving...I know we could your Aryldyte resin but I was wondering if perhaps there is a silver cement that I can apply cold that'll hold the plate in place...I'm guessing the blank name plate would only be around 1/4mm thick.

Or...is there a silver paste/filler that we could fill and rub over the engraving to fill the letters enough that the middle will be blank.

If there is something like this, does it come in Gold and does it set enough that it can be re-engraved over ?

Thank you