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Restoration hardware
What is the best way to renew the gold color an all the various nuts and bolts? Is is cheaper to have them re-plated or can I buy all new stuff for less $$$?
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11-11-2001, 04:48 PM
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If you don't want to spend the $$'s to recoat or buy new fasteners check out Eastwood Co, they have a Golden Cad system that you might like to try, I just clean up the fasteners as best I can and put em back on, replace the horrible ones with grade 8 or stainless as I go...
Chris 70E
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11-11-2001, 04:57 PM
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The Porsche OEM fastener costs are all over the map depending on the fastener; I've paid anywhere from 10 cents to $ 20 for a fastener (exclusive to those in the engine). The cadium "plating" system Eastwood sells isn't really plating, its a series of paints/stains to duplicate the look of cadium plating. Real cadium plating is far to dangerous to do at home. Eastwood does sell a nickel electroplating system. It is a lot of work to cleanup and salvage fasteners and I'm tending to just buy new ones (either from Porsche or the hardware store - be sure and get the correct grade, many of the small 911 fasteners are ISO 8.8). It all depends on how much one's time is worth. It usually doesn't make much sense to spend an hour salvaging $5 worth of fasteners.
 Jim
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11-11-2001, 05:11 PM
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If you're doing a 100-point Pebble Beach-type restoration, I can see the need and/or desire to re-use and replate the original fasteners...but for anything else, save yourself time, money, and aggravation and just replace them with stainless (except for engine or susupension hardware-use 8.8 or better for those).
For less than $100, I replaced each and every bolt, nut, and screw on my '66 912 with new stainless (body) and grade 10 (suspension) after wasting many hours sandblasting, wire brushing, cleaning and painting some of the old orginal stuff. I finally realized I might as well as replace everything, since I had the car completely disassembled, planned to race it once it was back together, and didn't really want to trust 35-yr old hardware after working so hard to get the car done. Think about it.
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11-11-2001, 06:08 PM
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I'm not a concours type guy (look at my office) but I don't think replacement stainless fasteners are going to cut it with the judges (however nice they may look; the fasteners, not the judges). Instead of tediously cleaning old fasteners, merely replace them with new ones. Wurth and several other vendors sell the correct yellow cad plated fasteners. You can also find a plater to plate old ones, but you might want to dip a large quantity of fasteners to justify the minimum price they'll charge you. While Eastwood does sell the faux cad plating kit (paint), I think they also sell a genuine mini plating kit, but it's for regular zinc cad plating, not yellow.
Make sure the bolt heads are in a correct, right reading position :-) Sherwood Lee http://members.rennlist.org/911pcars |
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