I replaced all the nuts and bolts, except for the load bearing suspension
bolts, with stainless steel. Cost? About $200-300 approximately. Definitely
worth the $$$$$. Keep all screws in baggies as they are taken off and then
order new ones and then match them up. You cam also polish the bolts/screws
to look like chrome if you so desire.
Really, are you going to do a frame off and then put on rusty nuts and bolts
and that's providing you didn't snap many trying to get off 30YO rusted
steel or loose them in the black hole.
I had all other bits replated with zinc. Cost about $260. That's with all
carb parts and intake, brake lines and almost everything else.
As for the side trim I went to a body supply shop and was able to find
plastic moulding clips and used SS nuts and bolts w/them and never have to
worry about those junky moulding clips rusting on my shiny paint.
I also purchased nylon washers to be used under some of the top snaps and
under the fender pan head screws to protect the paint also.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam & Paul Bauman" <plhbauman@earthlink.net>
To: "Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: An ending and a beginning (advice needed)
> > What's wrong with putting screws in baggies and marking them? Maybe
> > someone like Les who has restored a roadster or two (...definitely
> > more...) might know how to put eveything back together without little
> > baggies and notes, but for me ... I need all the help I can get.
>
> It's not the archeological indexing of parts in baggies that is the
problem
> here. It has to do with the plating process. Large items like bumpers,
> grilles and such are hung from racks and suspended in the plating tank.
> Smaller items like screws and washers are barrel plated--that is, the
items
> are placed in a rotating drum and put into the tank. This method is called
> batch plating and it is very economical from the plater's point of view,
as
> many parts can be done at once with little human involvement.
>
> The problem is that most plating companies charge a flat rate minimum for
a
> job, say $35.00. Up to a certain amount of weight, the cost is the same.
For
> smaller jobs, however, the cost is still $35.00. A lot of money to pay for
a
> baggie full of plated parts!
>
> Most definitely inventory and photograph (a lot) your disassembly. But
> submit in bulk any plating job--it will save you a lot of cash.
>
> Paul Bauman
> Westminster, CA
> 67 1600
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=881168&a=6499541
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