Cadmium Plating Sources

[jimmyg]

Looking for a source(s) for cad plating for a restoration I'm doing. I have some fasteners and some other small parts from a R90s.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

kindest regards,

jimmy

[Bamboo812]

Google "cadmium plating service" and lots of options pop up.

[Kurt in S.A.]

Here's a couple of places that came up on the /2 list:

J&L Plating
21733 DeQuindre
Hazel Park, MI 48030
248-544-8500

DCI Aerotech
7515 Lyndon Avenue
Detroit, MI 48238
313-341-9478
Attn: Ronnie Nichols

I know next to nothing about plating.

Kurt in S.A.

[audiowize]

You might try the kit from Eastwood.

[Kurt in S.A.]

Is the Eastwood kit cad plated? I know of several stainless kits but that is not what the OP asked about.

Kurt in S.A.

[jimmyg]

thank you very, very much. J&L is just a few miles from my house here in the metro Motor City area.

[audiowize]

Is the Eastwood kit cad plated? I know of several stainless kits but that is not what the OP asked about.

Kurt in S.A.

Yeah, it's a tin/zinc plating system. It isn't exactly cadmium, but the results look pretty nice.

[BMWARCHER]

Try Caswell plating

http://www.caswellplating.com/

[jagarra]

I thought real cadmium plating was outlawed by the EPA a number of years ago. You may check my belief for accuracy, but what you find now is a substitute that will appear to be the same.

[Major Softie]

I thought real cadmium plating was outlawed by the EPA a number of years ago. You may check my belief for accuracy, but what you find now is a substitute that will appear to be the same.

You know, I thought so too, but apparently we are wrong. Cadmium plating is still available even in California. Back in 2011, the EU banned Cadmium plating in jewelry, so that may be related to how the rumor got going, or it may have been that a ban was considered, but never went into effect.