Re: dichromate
Jerry,
Your carb looks very nice and not over done. I have the caswell dichromate and never have been able to get any acceptable results with it. What ever did color wiped off. I gave up on it. I saw your write ups on your carb. I just figured the stuff from caswell is not always the same quality and that why it's not working for me. I can't even get it to color on fresh plated parts let alone cleaned carb zinc castings.
My only recourse on dichromate castings has been to ultra sonic clean then and use the resulting finish. It is never as dark as most on the flight judging field but it is more correct. More greenish than bronze gold. Yours looks that greenish hue (you must have a green thumb) and appears very correct.
I have caswell plating kit (copy cad) it worked poorly then and now 4 years later I tried it and parts came out gray. The parts originally done also rusted on a trailer queen in short order. The commercial plated parts held up nice.
I have a big power supply but the caswell kit nor dichromate just does not seem to perform acceptable for me.
Jerry,
Your carb looks very nice and not over done. I have the caswell dichromate and never have been able to get any acceptable results with it. What ever did color wiped off. I gave up on it. I saw your write ups on your carb. I just figured the stuff from caswell is not always the same quality and that why it's not working for me. I can't even get it to color on fresh plated parts let alone cleaned carb zinc castings.
My only recourse on dichromate castings has been to ultra sonic clean then and use the resulting finish. It is never as dark as most on the flight judging field but it is more correct. More greenish than bronze gold. Yours looks that greenish hue (you must have a green thumb) and appears very correct.
I have caswell plating kit (copy cad) it worked poorly then and now 4 years later I tried it and parts came out gray. The parts originally done also rusted on a trailer queen in short order. The commercial plated parts held up nice.
I have a big power supply but the caswell kit nor dichromate just does not seem to perform acceptable for me.
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