My Three Minute Restoration
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It looks like you got GOLD all over that engine bay
Love the cad plating! Approx what did it cost to process a 'bucket of bolts and things'?
Love the cad plating! Approx what did it cost to process a 'bucket of bolts and things'?
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I was told that a bucket O bolts (the whole car in a bucket..fasteners only) would cost about $150 to be zinc plated. A little more for cadmium.
I think I spent about $225 cad plating all my stuff.
The shiny chrome looking parts were nickel plated. They were the exhaust related things that see high heat. That was their recommendation. I was told that the cad would just burn off. That was a separate job. Minimum job.
I also had a few things I wanted powder coated, and didn't like how the three gold pulleys looked.... So I included them in the next PC job for very little additional cost ($25). Powder coating over the cadmium....talk about extreme corrosion resistance.
The guy at the PC shop said that some guys restoring cars cad or zinc plate all their non fastener hardware first, then bring it directly over to be powder coated. So I guess I wasn't the first.
Powdercoating is an excellent top coat, but it can degrade over time and once it chips, rust can travel under the coating and keep on going, prying it up. Plating prior to PC gives the metal two layers of protection. A durable top coat and a sacrificial "under coat". Rust can not travel under the plating. So a chip in the PC stops right there.
But to both plate and PC the parts would be twice the price of just PC alone. Ouch.
Included below are a few before and after pictures I have posted in the past on other threads. I'm including them here to maybe spark a fire in someone else's imagination. To show that beneath all that grime, dirt and rust on their cruiser that they've given up on in disgust, still lies a nice looking 2F engine bay... if they're willing to go for it.
Beautiful work! Inspiration to us all. Thanks for that!
My kind of music!
What track was that?
What track was that?
Really nice!
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Just found it again with Shazam.
John Kelly: Chopstix
A Night In the Park (Bonus Track Version) by John Kelley on iTunes
Really cool and my view concludes with a photo of Jerry Garcia. A nice touch of grey
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Indeed. Every silver lining has a touch of grey. Sometimes a very dark shade of grey indeed
Very cool F. I didn't know you were a dead head like me. Nice!
The plating looks great and sets it apart. Nice work on all of it!
Which plating shop did you use? Aircraft Plating in Gardena does not want to do small runs anymore.
Which plating shop did you use? Aircraft Plating in Gardena does not want to do small runs anymore.
Good work, personally I'd like to see some pics of the Baja trip! That's on my bucket list for me and the cruiser.