On a related note, Elite Golds started showing up with too much gold on their pins a while back. Their pins are simply way too thick to fit in sockets. Talk about irony, Ei is shutting down due to financial problems, and here we have Ei tubes that can't be sold because it has too much gold on it!

But anyways, does anyone know of a way to safely remove at least some of the gold of off tube pins? Grinding or sanding won't work. Isn't there some electro-chemical way or some such?