zinc or cad plating

["Tim Waltz" <printner@worldnet.att.net>]

I'm not a chemist, nor do I claim to have any knowledge of this area.

I've got a bunch of misc stuff that I want to have re-plated--screws,
headlight buckets, metal gas tube, etc.   I was originally under the
impression that it should be zinc plated.  Some "shiny" zinc, some yellow
zinc.  I've talk to a few platers, and they do cadmium plating in shiny or
yellow.

What's what?  Does anyone know if zinc is better than cadmium or vice versa?

TIA

Tim