Zinc plated parts

[MLBS3V12]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a supplier for reworking the zinc plated parts for my S3.
Even if I'm in France I would like to know where the job can be done in UK. Someone who use to work car parts.
Let me know the name of ones you have used with the best result.

Regards
Michel

[71 V12]

Hi Michel

I have used this company recently http://www.jwrudge.co.uk/index.html and they were reliable, did not loose any of my components, quality good and cost was reasonable. They will finish in yellow passivate if required.

Are you not able to locate a zinc plater in France?

Kind regards

Kevin

[Patrick NICOLAS]

Hi Michel

It's a fact that it's not easy to find somebody for that kind of little job in France.
Fo this reason a bought a kit on Ebay and started to do that by my self.

Patrick

[Durango2k]

I have a shop 140 km away.

They charged 50 Euro for the whole IRS. A mercedes Station Wagon rear end full with Iron parts.

Really !

Problem was it was Too thick in many placed later, lots of work.....

Parts do grow if you blast and Zinc them.

Take care.


Carsten

[rfs1957]

Think we need to be clear whether we are talking hot-dipped galvanising (where everything 'grows', none of the holes/threads are ever usable again, it costs about 1? HT/kg here with a weekly rotation via Barcelona, and there aren't many bits of a Jaguar you would want to send down that route) or electrolysis where the coating is minute and makes dimensionally insignificant changes ; 20 years ago we used to get bucket-loads of bolts/brackets/fittings done electrolytically both in white or yellow (and this was in France !) without any need to mask or plug holes/threads or w.h.y. and this was as close as we could get (here) to a cadmium plated aspect, unless you went for un-polished chrome, which is a radically thicker coat that does require thread protection etc

Michel. Nous utilisions une petite boite ? B?ziers (Ets Maimone), ils sont en activit? encore je pense, mais vraisemblablement ferm? pendant les f?tes ...... si vous n'avez pas trouv? une solution je veux bien voir s'ils travaillent toujours ? Ils avaient pile le profil qu'il faut pour bien g?rer et soigner la m?canique ancienne. Rory

[Durango2k]

I know. It is electrolysis, yellow-zinc. And STILL parts did grow. Maybe only 1/10 or less, but still, for example, the long lower inner fulcrum bolts did not fit through the diff carriers. And the driveshafts not in the hubs. And the UJoints not in the yokes. And so on.

I believe that blasting actually rather "soft" iron drives some of the smallest glass particles into the surface, roughening it. Then the electrolysis comes on top, giving it a rather smooth surface back filling the holes.

And then, hey-ho, your parts grew by 1/xx.... but they grew.

Positive- it will NEVER rust as bad as it was when I got it. Jagwaugh asked me if my IRS was 5 yrs in the north sea !, but negative- LOTS of work to make- fit the parts. Any small thing needs a lot of fettling, it takes AGES.

Carsten