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Plating a Pomco/Merkur...?

Fighting off the RAD by doing a bit of spit and polish on what I have so far:tongue_sm, I have a question:
I picked up a Pomco Slant. The barrel is silver plated, and could obviously be redone (in Rhodium); is the head brass also, or is it zinc? It feels exceedingly light, in comparison, but I could be thrown off by the heft of the barrel.
 
As far as I know the head of these slant razors that come from the Merkur factory with all the different brands the head of the razors is made out of zamak. I have some vintage slants and some have some pitting. What I can see there that it is definetaly not brass.

I read in another forum that a member there owns a rhodium replated vintage Hoffritz slant but otherwise I read that the razor heads made of zamak can only be replated in nickle.

I have one or two vintage slants that could have a replating too but I don't want to damage the razors, so I didn't decide to replate these yet.
 
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