Zinc/Nickel Plating Kit by Classic Plating UK - First Impressions/Results!

I'm so being in a ton of interest of how I've started to sing play all my parts so I've got a kit from classic painting UK I'll show you that it was a professional kit what I've been doing it's going through and currently all my s 38 ITV parts showing them up as much as I can I've got an absolute telling them to do it's a little so far and everyone's been asking me how to do it so start with some head cooling box refers to some party at the engine the usual process will be degrease acid dip and then carry on with a blatant he's on too but really there's a little bit of a little bit of grease on them all so what I'm gonna first do is just simply degreasing unfortunately no pots cleaner yet so just got the classic boom and some spray as well so check them in there cleaning what I can and then we can move on to next day you till them script down now it's just getting the war clean off no I'm not doing the praises of them simply just removing the degrees every from look as good as they say now since the new next steps not exactly a fun one and this is how Cora Cazadores noticed neurotic acid it's using swimmer balls to level up the pH but it's perfect to start burn of these with these bosses should be about half an hour I've got it all set up outside because of the fumes even mo bit windy so there's no need for me to talk you so whilst that's who else is going for it just degrees to come or some the oil filter housing and some of the front iron chain bolts so they're all degrease ready to go in this should be an interesting one because it's got the black coating on and usually the acid should take that off in no time so we'll see how that looks it's coming up just about half an hour forwards I hear the next bit cause it's windy but I will remove them rinse them down best I can and then bless them with air with their compressed air to flash dry them so they don't rust [Music] [Music] [Music] as you can see they look pretty good it's given quite a matte finish so what I'll do now because with zinc plating the smoother the services the brighter it gets and looks more like a mirror so I'll do now is he's attached the threads into a drill chuck then use a wire wheel just to smoothen up and polish Polish not here's quick comparison from just after yesterday to a quick wire wheel this will be able to plate much better and much brighter as well compared to this so I'm just gonna do the final one than they're already alright so that's all the bolts then you should be able to see the pretty pretty shiny obviously not a mirror finish but they are ready for plating back in their box and it's about time okay the the next slot out of the acid dip and do exactly the same so that's another part Shu few parts done and once again it's quite a matte finish but pretty clean on the left so once again back onto the wire wheel and get these polished up so here's another bolts set of bolts turn on the wire wheel looking pretty good no massive hit marks in them so they should they should shine up pretty well I'm pretty happy with them on this one that's quite a good range of bolts you got some cap add some hex adds some notes different length shanks different size threads so that'd be quite a good one to see when it's all plated so this last one I had a bit of struggle because the the black H on this was pretty hard to take off so most we came up with the acid and then I just ripped in the sound blaster and just gave it a blast off and then a quick quick wire wheel it looks looks pretty good again um some bits of wire wheel down but wanting to do now just get the Dremel just get all these little edges off just to get a little it rushed quite easily after the acid you have to make sure that everything's as clean as it can be so and there's some Bosson here I just couldn't get to on the big wire wheel so I'll use the Dremel now just clean our leader all right so that's all these cleaned up now is as well as I can get it the processes of the Sims in play will really clear the rest of it but now it's time to wrap everything up and get it ready for playing so these are the three boxes of them today you've got the front tone change the head coolant that's what it's called I think it's fun to do with a water pump maybe and then the oil filter housing so what needs to do now is get all this wire unfortunately I've run out of one mil copper wire so I've just got some some kind of a smaller smaller thread and then put three around it and see anything need to get all these ready so within the first box there's 12 bulbs I just thought I'll do six at a time because you don't do too many otherwise well my charge didn't give enough current so doing six attack to be perfect so whatever is the this is actually a 38 ITV throttle shaft I've got a new one but this is absolutely perfect looki enough these two holes match it with a bucket diameter so what I do now is wrap these around and then grab these pegs and clamp them on I've had some issues before with with the current not running through and when you're squeezing together then obviously it runs again so what I decided to do is now clamp every single one with a peg just to make sure everything is tight all right so that's all that's ready to go what I'm gonna do now is just level them all off so they're all the same length because currently they're a bit off and then we can move on to the plating just for a brief explanation of my thinking process this is a kit from classic plating UK it's pretty big to do does require quite a bit of work space and all this is you start with in alkaline degreaser 30 Celsius I go with for three minutes around that depending our clean they're possibly these these are so three minutes should be fine then you we want to a pickle that draw us a dip I say the ambient temperature and about two minutes for that you'll see bubbling up and it kind of starts to etch the surface terribly the electrolyte next on is the zinc nickel electrolyte and once again set up to I've got at about 30 degrees you've got here is your zinc and nickel uh notes and with a power supply running through it it's all cranked it up to a battery charger just over there that I usually leave for about half an hour longer if I check them and then I'm very I'm not happy with them and then we move on to here we've got a nitric acid and a yellow and Claire possibly the nitric acid is something you'd ask the electrolyte once again that helps that to surface after the zinc to help the pass white stick a bit better with that one is that yeah yellow a gold color and the blue path of a brings it more out for a Claire and then here is just another wash bucket for the yellow pass of eight with everything abstention now we start the first process so you see about the six bolts here I'm simply just hanging over and then I'll give up three minutes we've three minutes up so we can take it out and then I can go on to the next step I'll rinse it in deionized water this is just cold some some people say to heat the water up but I've not found a difference really give that a good little dip and then we can move on to the dry acid pickle why is that well that's happening I'll set up the electrolyte by just dropping all the anodes getting it ready to go the tumors is up with the acid they're quite really bullying from that as it starts to surface once again nice but rinse in the Gemini's water so actually the electrolytes heated to about 3035 degrees with all the in place get that set up as you can see there's a few little and sticking out so what I'm gonna do is adjust them and then we can move on to the next part so with the all the bolts now well in the water what you want to do is just have them just right near the top supposedly the closure gets the top the better finishes so now I'll do is to connect to the battery charger this little resistance the current controller I kind of set up as a trial and error what you can do is you can watch how the bolts react to it how much kind of fizzing comes from it you don't want the crazy amount but you don't want not a lot so with that turned on you see that the box are now start to fit and I'll show you that a bit closer you see it pretty well happy with all the connections they're making sure that they're all fitting together so now we can set the agitator it'll simply as is it is a fish tank pump that just helps kind of agitate the material make sure that the plane is getting pretty even we'll leave that now for 30 minutes nothing any crazy we'll come back to it you even with the Paladins a agitation through the fishtank pump I do like to quickly just check them they've been about 15 minutes now so they've got halfway through someone's I will spent but these are all pretty pretty even so what I'd like to do is just just make sure that there's quite an even coating make sure that shows that the connections working and then I'll just give it a little a little swirl just make sure it's all happening and then back on we're going so with the bolts happily moving along on the lecture like I've started just to just to wrap up all the the extra bolts great for next game did you see this is quite a long one I didn't want to dip it in all the way so I've added to Stu little wires just say when that hangs it's nice and level then I we have to rotate that through during the electrolyte process just make sure it's evenly coated you've got a few more boxes to do and that should take you about 15 minutes and then they'll be ready to move on to passivate right good good we're just walking around the oh nice water and get ready for the pass of a pretty good Oh so now at the current state now what I can do is drop in the pasta bake this is a simple 30-second go with this if you're really careful passivated screams like a jelly when when it's sc1 give it really slight agitation and I could see them golden up pretty well so simple 30 seconds 15 seconds in and then in the water it's just a simple to kind of dips nice and gentle then it's ready to start drawing the seconds up throw them into the water a couple of dips how come you want to join oh isn't exactly Orthodox and I'm gonna do is put a heap in here and I go straight on to the parts which on this little rack made well drill than all they do is they'll just sit there and kind of twin along getting a bit heat ug for about 20 minutes or so and as you can see the finish is pretty good on them that's our focus I'm very happy with them so only to do now is leave these for a couple of days you don't really touching them because because with the purse of eight it's quite chilly like until it dries off the heat gun does help so if they tough around like should me such a problem but they should change colour as well as you get a longer so some of the shanks are really kind of purple enough already bring up with them and with the next batch Ian that's the rest of the cool of bolts you've got two boxes ready so they're all tied up housing one on there to keep the nice and flat and same again with a nice long bolt so they should be pretty good and the next one are we showing the ringers so there we have the first batch that we did and that's moving on to the second both looking pretty identical I'm very happy Bertha finishes really little bit of color in them all so well the next one on the go now 15 minutes is up so they should be out soon showing you a third batch as you see each one kind of fizzled away it's good just a check that everyone is happy and well do others turn the accusation off every so often clear out the bubbles make sure they're going came out of a swirl and then carry on so they should be doing about 15 minutes this is the third batch and these are for the oil filter housing and I'm pretty happy again the results quite a lot of blue in some of them pretty nice and goal yeah very have struggled following washes foundation this time before smashing see how that goes the fourth back is gonna be a bit of a new one for me so coming up with this layout and I see how it goes it's just really that from evidence when this this big but luckily not much shows there were a few dark spots there just check this now okay little spent and within minutes it's free even now so let's go another 15 minutes left and we'll see how that looks passivated so this is running out okay thirty five minutes rotating it about three times it's looking pretty good to see you Australia deionized water quite a few dips what I've got here is just a little spray bottle with the eyes watering just to make sure that every little bit cause blackening something I've done too many times now and ruined a few too many bits once you get it nice and slow a little little movement this is kind of just a test the bracket is actually snapped so I'm looking to replace it I just wanted to kind of give it a go and then this bulb isn't exactly important but if it goes well then I'll keep them both really maybe 35 seconds this one just because of the size of it pretty good to we want to join so with the fourth batch it was just these two I'm pretty happy again and there's some sly specking along there so I mind to filter out my electrolyte from that I'm pretty happy with both results so I'm gonna leave that to leave it on the heat for a bit longer and the next batch is already in right here's the fifth these look pretty well little different sizes hex heads kappahd sports not different length shanks this last batch just caused quite a darkening of the passivate say more perfectly blue than gold it's not a matter are you don't exactly mind but it doesn't match however this batch is of the third box so I've done in the next batch there'll be the last one not be the same box so hopefully as long as all the bolts match up from the same box that shouldn't be such an issue talking then on the last batches I thought I'd have a look quickly just through the guide and series had anything to help improve I was just reading here and it says you did some brightening left over when they start to become dull gray and it's not didn't notice so what I've done is that is exactly as it says one mill a brighter and 10 on the start solution and I can show you now the results here is the back traded before when I started to notice it noticed it go quite dark and then above is now about a day starter and brightener it's it's made them absolutely amazing again something I kind of missed and kind of see how they started to get darker as it went along on the process unfortunately there has been instances where it's kind of it wrong this one first went wrong I thought I'd try replate it but unfortunately it's so damaged the threads are all damaged so they will have to be replaced it has been quite a few of the time luckily it's things I've discovered and now plan to change but it's strange to say that's why this came from one batch and this was the same one I had look to improve it so before most of this I wasn't using the erratic acid I wasn't the Sound Blaster I wasn't really using that wire wheel as much yeah so now with these is a much improved design and I'm really not getting that many faults but stuff like this one for teens is gonna have to be replaced I'm really happy with it with the end result obviously there was a few issues along the way but it's definitely an improvement from last time and I'm happy I know what to look for next time this kit is can be quite stressful but when you look at that is this such as satisfy result and as you can see the old ones there are the rest so I did start this about three o'clock and now it is 10 o'clock at night so pretty laborious tasks but I do really enjoy it well this is only three boxes out of a can probably about 20 boxes so it's gonna be a long journey but for me I do feel like it's a better option than getting them sent off to someone else not only missing out on how to do it but when you've got 20 odd boxes that gets put onto one it's always a bit of a worrying thing and you never knows that lose one bowl what's up now of course the kit is it is expensive say it was a about 10 pounds when then with everything else I bought on top of it it probably came to about 350 and but still cheaper than buying just the original bolts you see not as cheap really sitting out what's right but I'm proud to say I kind of learned it and happy to help out with anyone else really yeah

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Keywords: restoration, workshop, zinc plating, bmw, e30, s38, s38b36, engine, plating kit, home plating kit, garage, bmw m5, bmw e34 m5, ITB, throttle bodies, individual throttle body, classic car, classic car restoration, e34, m5, engine swap, m5 restoration, overhaul, electroplating, passivating, yellow, blue

Id: qCicmOKa32A

Length: 24min 53sec (1493 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 06 2020