Cataloging/Organizing for Plating, What's your system? Options

[bbrock]

I'm getting close to a point where I need to start thinking about having hardware plated and figure it will be a good "while watching TV" task to sort all the doodads. The thought of dumping all these nuts, bolts, and other goodies that I have carefully bagged and labeled into a bucket for the plater is intimidating. Wondering what system others use to help sort parts when they come back all shiny. Part of me thinks I could just catalog the specialty stuff and use the PET to figure out which common nuts and bolts go where on reassembly. What do you do?

Also, anyone have a mail order plater they can recommend? I may have found a plater in Billings, 100 miles away, but haven't called. Info I have is bare minimum, (name, address, phone number), no idea what services they offer. Google street view shows an old crusty building with no signage.

[burton73]

Brent,

It looks like there is a easy way to do DIY Zinc plating. Look on UTube.

It just takes a small battery and some Zinc metal. Some Washing powder?

After you can dip them to get them the gold look. I have a couple of parts on my sway bar that where not plated and I am going to try. You can make a vibrator cleaner as well.

Now most people would send them out but you may want to try. You could run them in super small run so you do not mix them up. I ordered the stuff to make the gold finish wash and I will have more than I need and can send you some. I got ¼ Lb on the way. Zinc I have coming but may use it all up.

Bob B

[Dr Evil]

Brent,

It looks like there is a easy way to do DIY Zinc plating. Look on UTube.

It just takes a small battery and some Zinc metal. Some Washing powder?

After you can dip them to get them the gold look. I have a couple of parts on my sway bar that where not plated and I am going to try. You can make a vibrator cleaner as well.

Now most people would send them out but you may want to try. You could run them in super small run so you do not mix them up. I ordered the stuff to make the gold finish wash and I will have more than I need and can send you some. I got ¼ Lb on the way. Zinc I have coming but may use it all up.

Bob B

Interested in this. I did the washing soda electrolysis of rust thing. It worked. I need to plate some tranny parts and have a decent batch Im working on.