India Elephant Lighter Restoration

I have to be very careful when heating this elephant It is made of pewter and can easily melt away I will fix this lighter mechanism later The elephant is in a very bad shape There are several holes in the pewter This is going to be very hard to fix One leg is completely missing One of the tusks are broken This statue came together with the elephant lighter Do you know what this is? PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW Now my beautiful friend I will take good care of you A little squeeze of WD-40 We also need heat to loosen up this brass plug This needs sandblasting I use baking soda to sandblast this time To protect the details on the elephant Baking soda is very good for soft materials And for baking The result after baking soda blasting If you enjoy the video - please click like! Now to the hard part - I need to fix those holes Adding a pinch of flux to the pewter Skimming all the slag from the hot pewter Now to the pewter casting The new leg for the Indian elephant I will attach the new elephant leg here Adding solder flux 2 hours later I will adjust the color differences later Please subscribe to my YouTube channel IT WILL BRING YOU TONS OF GOOD LUCK THANK YOU VERY MUCH I will now fix the lighter mechanism I am afraid to damage the very fragile material So I will just clean the lighter mechanism as it is Adding sandblasting sand to the glass jar Cleaning the parts in a simple mini tumbler I will now decorate this beautiful elephant I start with a silver metal color paint But I also use red, gold and yellow Mini tumbler is ready now Adding a flint to the lighter Adding a spring to the flint Adding a screw to the spring Adding petrol to the lighter The Indian elephant lighter before restoration There are around 26000 to 30000 Indian elephants left in the world The elephant never grow their tusk back once broken Thousands of elephants is getting medical care every year Here are the elephant that I took care of

Channel: Awesome Restorations

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Keywords: Restoration, lighter restoration, india, india lighter, india lighter restoration, elephant, elephant lighter restoration, restoration video, old lighter, pewter, pewter casting, india elephant, india pewter elephant

Id: RJPYJinHZ-c

Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 15 2021