[Shop-talk] home plating kits

[Mike Rambour]

Problem with all these great solutions, is you can talk about the 
intricacies of bearing clearances or piston to cylinder clearances or 
valve timing to the nth degree to me, but talk to me about regulator 
chips, anodes, cathodes or who knows what else and you are talking a 
foreign language.  I know enough about the EastWood plating kit that I 
hate its batteries although they have served me very well over the 
years, I will pay for a Caswell one with someone else's design power 
supply, push the button and plate.  Sometimes ignorance is bliss and 
sometimes its expensive, this is one of those expensive times for me but 
I have no interest in learning a foreign language at my age.


    Mike

Doug Braun wrote:
> Things like filtering and electronic regulation aren't
> necessary for a plating setup.
>
> You can probably control the current by changing the
> size of the anode (or is it a cathode?), and the
> distance from the anode to the work.  If you have a
> 6/12 volt battery charger, you can swithc the setting.
>
> The important thing is a way to measure the current,
> so you know what is going on.
>
> In any case, using batteries for plating is sort of
> lame, technically speaking...
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> --- Bill Gingerich <bill at gingerich.us> wrote:
>
>   
>> There are several voltage regulator chips on the
>> market that could be used
>> to reduce the voltage from 24 to 12 or almost any
>> other voltage you need.
>> The biggest question is how much current does
>> plating take?  You'll need a
>> regulator that can pass that much current.  I built
>> a small regulator for
>> the gauges on my Triumph for about $10 in parts from
>> Radio Shack.  The
>> schematic for the circuit was included with the
>> regulator I used.
>>
>> There are other solutions that are less hassle, but
>> building stuff is fun
>> anyway.
>>
>> Bill G
>> Newalla, OK
>>     
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