Off-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside

Finally, many smaller parts are becoming a lesser amount of larger parts again. I went with silver and black since that's what was available. The brake shield is showing some wear but I think I'll get a couple more years out of it since it won't be seeing any salt anymore.







Haven't really done much to the bolts, wire brushed them and oiled and wiped down. Used ATE brake grease on the pins and cylinder. I dunno if this is supposed to be used only on the cylinder but I'll be damned if I am buying two types of grease for this. This tube is big enough to be a lifetime supply.



The other brake callipers came off the car last night and went into the electrolysis bath as well.



This stuff about brake calipers got me interested in zinc electroplating. Factory finish on these was apparently zinc coating that's been passivated with a process that turned it yellow / iridescent. I would like to replicate that process, for the calipers but it sounds useful for bolts too. The zinc plating itself looks easy enough, the passivation process I am not sure yet. Some reading calls it yellow chromate and yeah that's not stuff I wanna handle.

Statistics: Posted by His Divine Shadow — 2024-04-07 03:19am

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