For the home plating specialist

geosar · Post by **geosar** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:14 pm

Thank you for the great suggestions. I have gotten the power supplies for free and a heavy duty rheostat (dimmer) at the thrift store for 3 dollars.

I will have to go to the boat store initially I guess, but I hate to take "formed" zinc plates which will be high retail. The zincs they have a specific for boats but I will swallow the cost and begin next week.

Great thread

George

Snakeoil · Post by **Snakeoil** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:32 pm

zoom wrote:Rob, glad to hear that your experience was about the same as mine. I was running about.8v with 500mamp and 3 spokes. I haven't tried it but I thought the nipples wouldn't take the zinc over brass. Also I never had any washers under my nipples on a 64 CA77.
I'am going to start lacing the rims this weekend.............any suggestions.

Zoom,

I've made follow up comments both in this thread and in your nipple thread about a week ago regaring nipples. Not criticizing here, but you should try to start reading posts where you last left off so you don't miss good info. My nipples turned out to be zinc plated steel ('67 CL77) and not nickel plated brass. I did see some yellow/brass tint in some areas and at first thought they were brass. But a quick check with a magnet proved they were steel. So they replated nicely. Not sure what that tint was, but it's gone now, that's for sure.

If yours are indeed brass, then you cannot zinc plate them. You need to nickel plate them.

Finished up my carbs today. Replated all the choke linkages and bits. Checked the floats and found both to be set too high. Looks like the PO used the gasket surface instead of the outer edge of the body to check float height. I also touched up the worn tapers on the float valves and lapped them to the seats. We'll see how they work now. Would have put new valves and seats in the carbs, but of 5 dealers within driving distance, nobody had them in stock. If they continue to weep, I can always order up a set. They have to be better than they were with correct float settings and 100% contact on the seats.

Wine is open and breathing. Time to go downstairs and begin ringing (or is wringing more appropiate??) the New Year.

Happy New Year everyone!!

regards,
Rob

regards,
Rob

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:31 am

Excuse me, must have missed where you said they were steel over zinc.

Snakeoil · Post by **Snakeoil** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:56 am

zoom wrote:Excuse me, must have missed where you said they were steel over zinc.

Like I said, was not criticizing. We all miss stuff in these posts. This thread has gotten pretty long so I can see folks being reluctant to wade thru all the various messages, ,me included. But I've stumbled upon old threads doing searches and found some gems of info buried in them.

regards,
Rob

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:23 pm

Well, I've saved a permalink to this topic. I've been following the entire conversation avidly; it's going to be one of my mini-projects over the winter, so I'm trying not to miss a single nugget of reference info!

Wilf · Post by **Wilf** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:26 pm

Steve, you're on the other side of the Atlantic so you'll have turn the anodes around the other way and also reverse the polarity for it work...:)

Wilf

geosar · Post by **geosar** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:31 pm

What about below the equator?

George