I first think that it should be clear that the CHROME used to build up a
crank is HARD CHROME not decorative chrome. BIG DIFFERENCE. It was and
probably still is quite common to hard chrome the journals of a crank.
Gives a very smooth very hard finsih that will in a lot cases withstand a
bearing going South without damaging the crank. I'd do it but like
Nitiriding better as it effects the entire crankshaft not just the journals.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin" <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
To: <WEmery7451@aol.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Eastwood Tin Zinc Plating kit
> I'm curious to hear what Kas has to say about this... I took a crank to
my shop
> back in the 80's... Bishop and Buehl Engineering... (They were heavy
into
> building Formula 1 motors...) And they sent my crank out and had it
"ground
> undersized, chromed oversized, ground to standard and polished." Fortune
and
> fate has kept that crank from seeing the inside of working motor all these
> years. I've had it in a holding pattern for some future motor. So I
can't
> speak of it's performance, but it sure looks pretty.
>
> --Justin Wagner
>
>
>
> WEmery7451@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 11/3/01 1:40:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > jmwagner@greenheart.com writes:
> >
> > << And plating in Zinc is not nearly as expensive as chrome plating. >>
> >
> > I use to have some of my crankshafts chrome plated in the past. Does
anyone
> > have experience with the effects of this process, or will this make the
crank
> > shafts more brittle?
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