Well I'll bet you guys think this is another plating story. It started out that way, and I even got the zinc and black phosphate plating kits all heated up. But I learned today that some of these old parts just clean up well.
At Flagstaff I had a 67 on each side of me with perfect hood latch pins. It was embarrassing to look at mine. Here's the before:
39 years of grease on them, I guess well preserved.
Well, I started preping them for plating, soaked them in hot TSP, then Jasco Metal etch, then had to scrape the baked on grease off, wire wheeled them, then hit them with a nylok brush for the final finish prior to plating.
Once I got all the grease off and hit them with the nylok brush, they started looking so good I said the heck with plating them. The pin itself I think was originally plated with cad versus zinc, the brushing brought out a real white silver finish. I'm not going to put zinc over cad.
And here's news for the 67 Judging Guide: the spring is not black phosphated, it is painted. Black Phosphate turns to powder in a heavy acid or base and comes off real easy. I put the springs in muriatic for 20 minutes, and the coating only started to come off and in strips.
So I wire wheeled the springs, and painted them.
I learn something every day.
Having fun,
Jerry Fuccillo
#42179
At Flagstaff I had a 67 on each side of me with perfect hood latch pins. It was embarrassing to look at mine. Here's the before:
39 years of grease on them, I guess well preserved.
Well, I started preping them for plating, soaked them in hot TSP, then Jasco Metal etch, then had to scrape the baked on grease off, wire wheeled them, then hit them with a nylok brush for the final finish prior to plating.
Once I got all the grease off and hit them with the nylok brush, they started looking so good I said the heck with plating them. The pin itself I think was originally plated with cad versus zinc, the brushing brought out a real white silver finish. I'm not going to put zinc over cad.
And here's news for the 67 Judging Guide: the spring is not black phosphated, it is painted. Black Phosphate turns to powder in a heavy acid or base and comes off real easy. I put the springs in muriatic for 20 minutes, and the coating only started to come off and in strips.
So I wire wheeled the springs, and painted them.
I learn something every day.
Having fun,
Jerry Fuccillo
#42179
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