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I did some testing in a salt exposure. I place a bare metal bolt, a zinc plated bolt and a zinc plated chromate bolt in the water softner brine tank for about a week just above the water line. The bare bolt is showing extreme surface corrosion. The zinc is turning a bit chalky and the chormate...

The Caswell Plating is a process that is true zinc electroplating. The kit comes with the chemicals create a bath that efficiently allows the current to flow from a sacrificial zinc plate (neg)(99% pure zinc) to the part (pos). Once a part is plated with zinc it is dipped in the chromate dye...

The first step in what is sure to be a long restore project will be the carb. I decided to do something small as a meaningful first step. I tore the carb apart and ordered a Caswell Copy Cad plating chemicals. I didn't but the kit just the Copy Cad chemicals and yellow chromemate. So far it has...