Hello all;
I would like to respond
to this last posting.
Well,
I think we have all gone to
the Caswell web site by now, $655.00 to do nuts and bolts, THAT'S A DEAL, I
can get large bumpers show quality chromed for a little more than that!
-Yes, but how many small parts will your plater do for the
same money? Besides that isn't the price of an entry level kit.
$6000.00 for a 16 Gal. kit! That's not even large enough to
do a radiator shell!
-No-one suggested that they wanted this
for doing large parts. All that you would need to do is go from the
bucket to a large plastic tray if you wanted to do something bigger. With the
right information, and materials, you could probably construct a
plating outfit any size that you want without having to deal with this
company
I stick with my plater, lets see;
They send a truck
to pick up my bumpers,
I don't have to do squat.
-Lets see them come around when you want to have some pot
metal trim parts redone.
They straighten out the dents, fill the rust
holes,
I do my books, have a brew.They remove the old chrome, O YEA that's
something I wanna do, imagine the toxic chemicals that takes! They polish and
fill, sweat and strain
I sit in my a/c'ed office.
-As I have said before this is your prerogative. No one is
stopping you from going to the plating shop and paying $40 h/r to have them do
the work.
They plate, and plate, and plate again,
you know till it looks
like chrome that a customer would pay for, and if they screw it up, THEY EAT
THE COST,
I continue to drink, I mean, work on other things.
-What happens if they destroy or loose a rare or
unreplaceble trim part? What does their guarantee mean then? They can eat the
cost but you are still out a part.
They bring me back BETTER THAT NEW beautiful LARGE
front and rear 50's era bumpers,
with an invoice of under a
GRAND!
Here's where I gotta do some WORK --- I WRITE THE CHECK!
GLADLY
Ron's .02
Ron, you are comparing apples and oranges.
These kits were never designed for doing bumpers and I don't recall
anyone here claiming that was what they wanted it for. It is erroneous to
compare the replating of a steel bumper with that of a pot metal trim part. A
small trim part can take almost as much time as a bumper in order to do it
properly. They are also much easier to ruin and much harder to find if they
do. I can't think of a way for the plating guys to destroy something
heavy and thick like a bumper, and even if they do they are relatively easy to
find.
Compare that to a trim part, made from a zinc alloy,
where if they hold it in one spot too long the edges will disappear, if they
overheat it will melt. Any Chrome shop can do a bumper, its on the basis of
how they handle the more delicate parts that most people judge their
workmanship.
I for one could care less how
people redo their chrome, or whether they use the Caswell system or not,
as long as it gets the job done. What I don't care for is arm chair
quarterbacks telling someone else that something isn't worth doing because
they themselves can't be bothered. For you maybe it doesn't make any
sense, but for someone that has a great number of small parts to replate
perhaps it does. Some of us can't afford to cut a check every time we need a
job done.
Best Regards
Arran Foster
1954 Imperial Newport
In a message dated 05/30/02 10:14:56 PM Central
Daylight Time, aprtay@xxxxxxx writes:
I agree with Arran on this one. I do ALL of the work on my own
cars. I would
rather spend the money on the right equipment to do it
myself than risk
paying someone else to do something that I would not be
happy with.
Personally I love to restore cars, every bit of them. I have
been known to
spend days on a job that would only cost $100 to have done.
But theres one
thing that I know that the guy that farms out his work
doesn't. I know that
every little peice is done to perfection, and if I
don't like it later then
I will just redo it. I guess I am just a
perfectionist. I am very interested
in this chrome thread, 67's as we all
know are nothing but chrome, so I
stand to save a lot of money and
headache.
Brian