Anybody do zinc plating here? Options

[JimmyG]

Working on getting my engine parts together for the rebuild and need a half dozen or so parts done and all the stuff I see locally is large or massive part number platers.I just need a little done and looked in the vendor spot with no success. Is there somebody trustworthy that does this for our 914 restos?

[Mueller]

I recently used :
Commercial Electro Plating
1937 S Cherry Avenue
Fresno, CA 93721-3305

$154 total
Shipping to them: $17

Zinc plating: $75 minimum charge (sounds like whatever fits into a 5 gallon bucket is the same price)

Oven bake afterwards: $50 minimum (they did the entire batch, only needed to high stress parts if you sent them all brackets and non-critical bolts no need for it)

Shipping back to me: $12

I sent them this:


and this is how they came back:

[gandalf_025]

I recently used :
Commercial Electro Plating
1937 S Cherry Avenue
Fresno, CA 93721-3305

$154 total
Shipping to them: $17

Zinc plating: $75 minimum charge (sounds like whatever fits into a 5 gallon bucket is the same price)

Oven bake afterwards: $50 minimum (they did the entire batch, only needed to high stress parts if you sent them all brackets and non-critical bolts no need for it)

Shipping back to me: $12

I sent them this:


and this is how they came back:

Like I said.. Not that difficult to send to a plater directly.

Wonder the price difference ??????

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Like I said.. Not that difficult to send to a plater directly.

Wonder the price difference ??????

We could only determine that knowing how much time he has in prep, what his time is worth and how many times it will have to be re-plated to equal the longevity of my plating.

[jd74914]

Like I said.. Not that difficult to send to a plater directly.

Wonder the price difference ??????

We could only determine that knowing how much time he has in prep, what his time is worth and how many times it will have to be re-plated to equal the longevity of my plating.

Shaun-I assume you redid all of the plated parts on that 911S...would you mind sharing the approximate cost (and maybe the time it takes you to prep)? I'm really just curious as to the order of magnitude. Those parts look so nice!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Like I said.. Not that difficult to send to a plater directly.

Wonder the price difference ??????

We could only determine that knowing how much time he has in prep, what his time is worth and how many times it will have to be re-plated to equal the longevity of my plating.

Shaun-I assume you redid all of the plated parts on that 911S...would you mind sharing the approximate cost (and maybe the time it takes you to prep)? I'm really just curious as to the order of magnitude. Those parts look so nice!

Sure Jim. What I posted was a fraction of my work on the 73S and it was done in yellow cadmium, clear cadmium and black phosphate...part of what I offer is what parts should be plated how. Note that cadmium is about twice the cost of zinc. I'll try to post the entire picture set. I always do 10-40 pics per stage with a lot of close-ups and will post those later on.

The total bill was $3156 but qualified for a 10% discount so it was $2841. Note that this customer bought several "correct" bolts from me, some of his were wrong or not worth plating, a used heat control clamp and new door strikers ($100) that I pulled apart for the plastic and then installed in his. There were also 40 new, old style Norma clamps in there. You can also see extra latches in the pics. Note that ALL Schnorr, wave and lock washers, and many flat washers were new German hardware that is free but charged for plating. Same goes for all Nylocks.

This job took me an entire week to process and an entire day to pack, so about 50 hours. Every bolt's threads are individually cleaned by hand on a bench grinder. Everyone one.

First 5 pics, few more to come