Cad Plating Central/North Florida

[Jaymanbikes]

Does anyone know of a resource for Cad or Cad like plating in N.E. Florida or as far South as Orlando?  

[SteveJ]

@Carl Beck might know of a place.

[JSM]

I have not used this place, but someone who has, said they did nice work. He said it was better if you clean everything up first before you send or it cost more (grease and sand blasting). 

Penninsula Metal Finishing 407-291-1023 - Smitty is the owners name, Orlando, FL. Might be able to do better if you pay cash too. Also he said he thought it was best to do a hole bunch at one time. 

If you use them let me know how it turns out. 

 

[Derek]

I have not used Peninsula but have had them quote a few things for me. They seemed to know what they are doing. I use Certified Metal Finishing in Pompano. Not sure if they do the process you want but they do a lot of stuff. I trust them to impregnate my head castings so that should tell you something:) Unless you plan on driving your parts there what difference does location make?

 

Derek

[Jaymanbikes]

9 minutes ago, Derek said:

I have not used Peninsula but have had them quote a few things for me. They seemed to know what they are doing. I use Certified Metal Finishing in Pompano. Not sure if they do the process you want but they do a lot of stuff. I trust them to impregnate my head castings so that should tell you something:) Unless you plan on driving your parts there what difference does location make?

 

Derek

I do plan on driving them there.  Thanks

[Jaymanbikes]

21 minutes ago, JSM said:

I have not used this place, but someone who has, said they did nice work. He said it was better if you clean everything up first before you send or it cost more (grease and sand blasting). 

Penninsula Metal Finishing 407-291-1023 - Smitty is the owners name, Orlando, FL. Might be able to do better if you pay cash too. Also he said he thought it was best to do a hole bunch at one time. 

If you use them let me know how it turns out. 

 

Thanks for the lead, I will inquire with them next week.

[JLPurcell]

As I understand it Cadmium is a very expensive process and is reserved, for the most part, for aircraft parts. I believe that you are needing Zinc Plating. There is Black Zinc, Yellow Zinc, and Silver or Clear Zinc. I have all of my done at Mid-City Plating in Muncie, Indiana. I take the parts there ready for plating, (cleaned and wire brushed). Some parts from my FJ40 restoration project pictured. 

[JSM]

27 minutes ago, JLPurcell said:

As I understand it Cadmium is a very expensive process and is reserved, for the most part, for aircraft parts. I believe that you are needing Zinc Plating. There is Black Zinc, Yellow Zinc, and Silver or Clear Zinc. I have all of my done at Mid-City Plating in Muncie, Indiana. I take the parts there ready for plating, (cleaned and wire brushed). Some parts from my FJ40 restoration project pictured. 

 

What does batch like that cost to get done?

[JLPurcell]

They are a big company and my batch's are small potatoes, but they like car guys. I did three batches on the FJ40 project, but if I had all the parts ready at one time it would have counted as one batch. You must bring them ready, cleaned and each part wire brushed for best results, and small parts wired (daisy chained) together and they yellow zinc plate them for me and then clear plate over the yellow zinc for a better finish. Ready...wait for it.....they do each batch for $75.00. It is so cool to pick up the parts they are like jewelry. The problem is you have to bring them in and pick them up. I live within 50 miles so no problem. Muncie is also where I went to college, (Ball State University), so kind of fun seeing my home of 4 years back in the 70's.  This is the link to the Land Cruiser Club and the thread on my FJ40 Restoration.  https://www.landcruiserclub.net/community/threads/new-member.140009/

Edited February 13, 2017 by JLPurcell

[Patcon]

That's cheap! Any problems getting all the parts back? I know sometimes small parts are an issue for larger platers...

[JLPurcell]

3 minutes ago, Patcon said:

That's cheap! Any problems getting all the parts back? I know sometimes small parts are an issue for larger platers...

You have to wire, (daisy chain) all the parts you can together. I have not lost any parts to date. I plan to take a bunch of parts over in the near future. I made a wire basket to allow me to media blast my parts in my blast cabinet and then I run over them quickly with a wire brush to smooth the finish for a nice plating finish. You can see some of the daisy chaining in the pictures. I do chains of about 1'.

Edited February 13, 2017 by JLPurcell

[JSM]

22 minutes ago, JLPurcell said:

The problem is you have to bring them in and pick them up.

So shipping is not an option? I'm assuming you've asked?