Electroplating service anywhere?

ALIKA T3 · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:12 pm Post subject: Electroplating service anywhere?

Hi there!

I want to electroplate all the vanagon hardware.
Or whatever you call it,zinc chroming? I don't exactly know the right terminology.... Embarassed

Can anybody point me towards a reputable company where I can ship a box of dirty hardware,pay,and get it back as new and plated?

Thank you Smile

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IdahoDoug · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:25 pm Post subject:

Are you looking for a chrome (shiny mirror surface) plating, or some other color like gold, etc? Also, what is the largest piece? The places that are left that still do it will want to know that as the size of their equipment is usually the limiter as to what they can fit.

Sounds like a nice upgrade!
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ALIKA T3 · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:33 pm Post subject:

Hi Doug!

oh,you know,the angle bracket on the bottom of the sliding door is probably the biggest one.
I'd like the cabin gear shifter as well.
All the latches and all the bolts from control arms,shocks,doors etc...

Nothing huge.

I'd like it like the yellow color of the latches in the vanagon,in french it's call "bichromaté".
It's not chrome,like the bumpers,mostly zinc or cadmium maybe?I'm not sure,maybe you know the name better than I do Laughing

cheers
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mwsnow · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:43 am Post subject:

Google is your friend. I see a few electroplating services in the Honolulu area.

Terry Kay · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:18 am Post subject:

Gatto Industrial Plating.
4620 W.Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago IL.

Zinc, Bright Zinc, Zinc Nickel, Zinc Chromate.

Biggest rack & barrel line Zinc Plater's in the country.

773-287-0100

Ask for George Gatto, tell him I told you to call..

Every steel, nut, bolt, washer & screw on the planet is either zinc or zinc chromated.
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Glenn · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:55 am Post subject:

Moved from the Vanagon forum to the General forum since non-vanagon people probably know of many good companies that do plating.
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ALIKA T3 · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:39 am Post subject:

ALIKA T3 · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject:

So ,here's the update.
I contacted Gatto,they don't want to do it,only commercial stuff..... Sad

I'm back on a hunt for an electroplating company Rolling Eyes

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ALIKA T3 · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject:

That looks nice,thank you,but I have about 32 Lbs of stuff to treat,it has to be dipped in something,or I will never see the end of it Laughing

I contacted other companies a few minutes ago,we will see Smile

Bye!
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Terry Kay · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject:

<<I contacted Gatto,they don't want to do it,only commercial stuff>>

You talked to George Gatto, or one of his sales people?

If you told him I told you to contact him, I'll bet he'd do it.

But--& this is my fault, I forgot to look at where your at--
The shipping would kill you, from Kummon I want to Lai you to the Windy City.

There must be somebody in Cal, Wa. or Or. that does rack or drum zinc, zinc chromate, or zinc nickel.

If you can't locate anyone send me the stuff--I'll dump it on George's desk and tell him to get it done--& I'll be back--.

Good guy & lifetime friend--he'll do it for me.
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ALIKA T3 · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:39 pm Post subject:

Terry Kay · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:42 am Post subject:

I've known G.Gatto since 68.
We lived together with 3 other crazy men.
We had 23 motorcyles in the garage, ice racing bikes, Enduro Bikes,Flat Tracking bikes, street bikes, and we were all loaded up on Buckweiser most of the time.

I worked for him in the winter driving his trucks when my semi that hauled gravel was parked for off season , hauled plated & unplated parts--back in the early 70's

He told me to go buy him some Mack trucks--I found 9 of them for him, bought them, painted them the crazy Orange , red, white & black paint scheme's for him.

I help him move his 76 ft.Chis Craft from the Cal Sag canal to Racine Wisconsin harbor every year.

Do I know him?
Yea--a little.
Will he do it for me?
I'm sure I wouldn't have any problem, depending if it's a straight run of the same process--drop the parts in a barrel line and run it in zinc.

Might cost me lunch ( I'd do that anyway--a common courtesy & good excuse to BS about stuff, as long as I'm killing the day running down to Boo- Boo land to drop the stuff off.)
And his place is in a real bad neighborhood.

Hey Baby--you want a date?

See what you come up with close just for the hell of it & I'll talk to him and see what 32 lbs of "stuff" will cost me.
It won't break the bank--but the shipping might.

You want straight zinc--right?
Keep in touch.
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ALIKA T3 · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:12 am Post subject:

Aloha Terry!

Wow! Seems like somebody that you know well indeed Shocked

I'd like that kind of yellow zinc that'd on the bolts from factory,or if they do Nickel-Zinc which is far better,I'll take it...

drscope · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject:

Try these folks and do it yourself!

http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/index.html

We did a lot with their stuff a few years back when the medical instrument business was booming.
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Terry Kay · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject:

Funny Thing--I talked to G.Gatto today.

All's he said was to have the stuff clean--no paint on it.
He'll acid tank the parts squeaky clean & barrel line zinc chromate or zinc them for you.
I didn't even bring up the nickel zinc, because I didn't think you would want that kind of expense.
Price nickel once.
You'll see where I'm going with this.
PM me if you'd like.

Here's an interesting item.
He's bulding the biggest hoist lines in the counrty.
He'll be able to drop huge stuff into these swimming pool sized tanks & plate them.
Vanagons---
I'm taking a ride down to his shop tomorrow---
I knew he was up to something in this new building he had built--
I gotta see this new stuff.
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ALIKA T3 · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:38 am Post subject:

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