[Spridgets] Zinc plating

[Jim Johnson]

I agree with you, Bob, insofar as doing a whole big batch but I am finding
that the EPA restrictions are killing the plating business.  I recently had
a pile of stuff for an old motorcycle and tried to contact my old plating
sources. They are all closed up!!  It's harder than heck to find a good
chrome plater anymore!!  Cad plating may be cheaper than chrome but a lot of
the cad platers have closed their doors!   Now days you have to ship
everything half way across the country.

Cheers!!
Jimindodgecity

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Kitterer Bob <bkitterer at me.com> wrote:

> Heard,
>
> Can not help on the chemicals but have another comment.  I would assume
> that you you are looking at just doing a few part at a time.  If that is
the
> case but you will have a reasonable number to do over time I would suggest
> waiting until you have a good size stack of parts and take them to a
> commercial plater.  It has been a few years but I had almost everything
that
> needed zinc plating on my BE done for $30 to $50 by doing it in one big
> batch. They do the cleaning, prep, plating and have to take care of the
> mess.  The key to doing this is to have enough parts to get up to or just
> over their base start up price.  As I recall the cost of the chemicals and
> tanks were close to this price.
>
> Which ever way you go good luck.
>
> Bob Kitterer
>
> 1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
> 1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage
>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Heard Saxon wrote:
>
> > I want to make a zinc electroplater for small stuff like nuts and bolts.
> > The stuff I'm reading on the Net says to use zinc chloride and ammonium
> > chloride for the electrolyte.  Is this the correct stuff and if so, what
> > strengths and ratios?  Also, how are you prepping the parts?  Is
> > sandblasting enough or do I need to give them an acid bath?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Heard
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Cheers!!
Jim
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