Its fun but you have to sandblast well to remove all signs of rust.
Use a big mouth plastic bottle to do "batch plating and blasting". Use a
soldering iron to perforate the bottle's bottom and sides to 3/4 the way up.
Fill about 1/3 full of nuts bolts etc and sandblast into the bottle inside
your cabinet while shaking the parts in the plastic bottle.
Next you plate using a similar bottle but with a bigger neck and fill it
with (perfectly rust free) nuts bolts etc. Drop about 4 or five little
stripped copper wires (steal from phone line cord) down into the fastener
for your plating cathode. Other wise you will need to wire all the parts up
individually for the cathode and plating.
Otherwise follow the instructions but remember to coat with clear paint to
reduce the time it takes for them to show rust again.
Oh any little splashes of the electrolyte will pit holes in your tee-shirt.
Warm Regards,
Tracy Drummond
Subject: [Healeys] plating parts
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