Cadmium and other plating

[John D.]

A lot of posts pop here on where to get Cadmium plating and other plating done.
If you want hi-quality plating (not chrome but everything else) done right and in a reasonable period of time here is who I am using for my fuel injection plating.
Walkers' Antique Parts Plating
401 State Route 58
Sullivan, OH
44880
419-202-9609

Some of you ask for cost for cad plating as one would expect. All I can tell you is cost depends on what you send. The more you send or the larger the batch the most value you will get. If you just want your hood latches and support plated like I read reasonable you are going to pay major bucks for a few parts.

If you belong to a chapter get a few guys together and send all your parts to Walker.
Here's what plating Walker does for me.
Black Zinc, Clear cadmium and di-chromate.
Just got back a batch of 10,000 fillister screws for my screw kits. My son is sorting the 3 different sizes for me.
Plating is perfect and not one screw is missing. How can I tell that you say. I have a scale that weighs in grams. Amazing how accurate it is.

What I really like now is I can have my plating back in approximately two weeks time.
Cost is basically not as important to me as quality work and service.
If a restoration has ugly plating on it and the plating was cheap that's a definite minus factor. Get the picture?
John D.
PS: Mention my name please. Walker knows how fussy I am so take it from there.

[Bob W.]

Re: Cadmium and other plating

John D Thanks for this information. In a different post about plating Joe Lucia stated that some parts that we think are cad plated are a dull zinc plating. Can also do this.

Thanks Again Bob

[John D.]

Re: Cadmium and other plating

Bob, Yes Walker can zinc plate for you. Thanks, John

[Ron G.]

Re: Cadmium and other plating

I have a company that I been using for almost 40 years located in Bridgeport, CT. If you would like for me to put you in touch with him reach out to me via email and I will respond. Thanks.

- Ron

[Michael G.]

Re: Cadmium and other plating

One of the important things about electroplating is that you should specify the thickness of the plating. Its more expensive to put it on thicker, but the corrosion protection increases proportionate to plating thickness. Have your plater tell you what the final thickness will be. With cad, it should be at least .0005 (but less than .0009") inches thick and you'll never have to worry about rust again on an old Corvette. Adding clear chromate will seal the plating and therefore increase its performance, while preventing some grey/white cadmium oxidation.

Zinc is not great at preventing rust on a fastener and 99.999 % of people (including virtually all NCRS judges) cannot tell the difference between zinc and cad. You're much better off with cad.