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#1 Correct colour/finish for rear brake callipers?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 12:59 pm
by PhilBell
Hi
Can anyone tell me the correct finish/colour for my Feb 1962 fhc rear brake callipers?
They were painted silver during the previous restoration but I can't tell if that's correct.
Thanks
#2
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:03 pm
by andrewh
My experience of older cars is that they were generally plated in a silver colour rather than zinc with yellow passivity. They may well have been painted, but my guess is cadmium or bright zinc, silver .
#3
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 9:43 pm
by Heuer
Originally cadmium plated, zinc plated is the cost effective option.
#4
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:16 am
by abowie
Not that anyone can see them....
#5 Brake calipers
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:15 pm
by cactusman
Nobody can see them.....but you will know!!!
Cadmium plating is now extinct so I would go for a zinc finish and then maybe a wee puff of clear lacquer maybe...they don't work had so should not be getting too hot!
#6 Eastwood paints?
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:26 pm
by PhilBell
Thanks chaps
I was thinking of using Eastwood Silver Cad spray, or their Golden Cad paint system. Does anyone have any experience of these? Eastwwod aslo does a spray called Brake Grey, which is resistsant to brake fluid.
Is the original cadmium coating more silver or more gold?
Zinc plating would be more durable of course, but I imagine it would look brighter than the cadmium.