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1976 280Z Restoration Project


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Yep, sounds familiar.  Have you started doing zinc on all the various bits and pieces?  That takes a while too.  Nothing worse than setting your mind to putting some assembly back together only to find some rusty spring or washer that you missed.  How are you planning on doing the zinc part?  Do you have a small media blasting cabinet?  I would blast the small parts, zinc them and them throw them in my tumbler with corn cob media for an hour or two.  They'd come out nice and shiny.  

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After a lot of soul searching and hand wringing I came to a conclusion.... I won’t be plating any hardware.
My car has so many mods on it already that came with stainless fittings, I will probably end up with most of my hardware in stainless. Almost everything else is getting powder coated. The stand up blast cabinet I have is doing a great job so far. Powder coating is beautiful and durable too. It also does a great job on springs. Remains flexible.

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4 hours ago, wheee! said:

After a lot of soul searching and hand wringing I came to a conclusion.... I won’t be plating any hardware.
My car has so many mods on it already that came with stainless fittings, I will probably end up with most of my hardware in stainless. Almost everything else is getting powder coated. The stand up blast cabinet I have is doing a great job so far. Powder coating is beautiful and durable too. It also does a great job on springs. Remains flexible.

Sounds sensible.  I probably would have powder coated too if I'd had a setup for it.  

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