<div dir="ltr"><div>I second the notion of using the white cadmium plating. I did the same thing here in Portland a few years back with a 5 gallon bucket of fasteners. There are economies of scale so if you go that route so do as many fasteners and small brackets as you can at that one time. I think the white cad is so much more pleasing to the eye than today's zinc plating.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My pro. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM Curtis Arndt via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Alan,<div><br></div><div>I used Caswell "Copy Cad" for years, and while the results were very good, it took a learning curve to get there, <u>and it was very time consuming</u>.<div><br></div><div>In the end, I took my large buckets of clean wire brushed fasteners for my BN1 restoration to Burbank Plating and had them all done in white Cadmium. White Cad not only gives the same look as Zinc done 60+ years ago, it's four times more rust resistant. </div><div><br></div><div>Now Burbank normally does not do fasteners for car hobbyists as people still think they can bring in a rusty coffee can full of crappy rusty fasteners and have them come back looking like new for $20. Those days are long gone. They do mostly contract, new production fasteners.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I brought in a more than 'full" five gallon bucket of fasteners (more like six plus gallons) that were all derusted, cleaned, inspected (threads and heads were all good) and wire brushed... They were pristine. The owner said that he would love to do them for me, <u>and only because I gave him fasteners worthy of the time and effort to replate</u>. They individually wired ALL of the fasteners down to the smallest ones, and did not lose one! They even did my excellent condition, original brake and fuel lines. At $600 it wasn't cheap, but a deal and worth every dollar spent.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW They do ALL of the fastener plating for Jay Leno's cars. FWIW, the owner is a 6' 3" blond haired and bearded 30 something gentleman who looks like a Northwest or Canadian lumberjack.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW their shop is immaculate, yes imagine a plating shop that looks that good, and try as they might, the A$$HOLE EPA inspectors have not been able to find any violations in their procedures.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Curt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 8:49 AM John Vrugtman <<a href="mailto:javrugtman@htcnet.org" target="_blank">javrugtman@htcnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I used Caswell's zinc kit for several years on three projects. I
did most of the setup myself, using only the chemicals. Worked
quite well for small parts, hardware and things like relay covers.
for prolonging the look you can use a clear coat over it. Like most
things it has a learning curve.<br>
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John<br>
64/66 BJ8s<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Has anyone have experience with these? Are these
kits worth it? Is the zinc plating decent enough?</div>
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