Re: [Chrysler300] Pot metal restoration recommendations?

[dan300f@xxxxxxx]

Hi all:
 
I have a friend who was a high muckity muck with Fujitsu in Japan.  He  
took some pieces from my 300F and had his factory plate them  They were all  
plated under vacuum.  They look really nice and he said they would never  pit 
as all the air had been drawn out with the vacuum.  Of course it would  be 
too expensive to send pieces over to Japan.  But why don't companies  here 
use vacuum technology?  I think Fujitsu uses vacuum to capture the  vapors 
emitted by the plating process.
 
Dan Reitz
Bell Canyon, CA
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/6/2013 2:56:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
george@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Ray
Frankly, the very best I have ever seen done is Custom  Chrome Plating in 
Grafton, OH. Long wait...6-10 weeks and  costly.

George


On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Ray Melton  <rfmelton@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Group -
> 
> In  the midst of restoring my late father's 1957 Chrysler 300C 
convertible,  I
> decided that the door handles needed to be refinished - I originally  
thought
> they looked good enough (visually about 9/10) with only a few  tiny pits, 
but
> soon the rest of the car was looking so good that it  began to make the 
door
> handles look a bit shabby, although nothing  broken and only a half-dozen 
or
> so pin-hole sized pits and zits on  each of the pull-up parts of the 
handle.
> I sent the handles, minus  attached linkage (four pieces: the stationary 
part
> and the moveable  handle part) to a place in Fresno that bragged about 
their
> beautiful  work, particularly on restoring pot metal motorcycle parts - 
their
>  website shoed a dozen excellent before/after examples. I said that of
>  course I wanted the tiny pits and zits filled, not just sanded away,  
which
> would have badly degraded the decorative horizontal ridges in  the pull-up
> parts of the handles. Two months and $300 later the parts  came back with
> deep, shiny chrome over the totally untouched tiny pits  and zits, which
> actually highlighted the small defects! When contacted  about the
> unacceptable work, the shop manager said, "I think they look  pretty good;
> I'd put them on my car", and refused to refund my money!  However, he
> offered to re-do them to a better standard if I would pay  him $75/hour 
for
> an indeterminate number of hours to refinish them  like should have been 
done
> in the first place! Needless to say, I  don't want to do business again 
with
> a shop that harbors that  attitude!
> 
> Then I looked in Hemming's and selected a place in  Pennsylvania with the
> best-looking and best-sounding ad, and a month  later received their 
estimate
> of $1013! That huge number just seemed  so far out of line (I was thinking
> more like $500) that I had the  handles sent back to me untouched. To 
their
> credit, they didn't even  charge me for the return shipping - clearly a
> stand-up place. 
>  
> So now I am appealing to the collective experience of other Club  members 
for
> recommendations on where to have this work done, hopefully  with a short
> anecdote regarding their experience in terms of work  quality and cost.
> Also, I would like to know whether the shop uses the  three-step
> copper-nickel-chrome process, and whether they use the  old-school 
hexavalent
> chrome (renowned for its deep luster but  severely restricted by the EPA) 
or
> the later trivalent chromium (less  onerous EPA regulated, but said by 
some
> to not quite match up to the  deep luster of the hexavalent chrome). 
While I
> don't consider the  hexavalent vs. trivalent issue to be the priority
> consideration, it  would be interesting to know what was used on your 
parts
> pot-metal  parts. 
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated!
> 
>  Ray Melton
> 
> Las Cruces, NM
> 
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> 
> 


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