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Re: Eastwood Tin Zinc Plating kit

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Eastwood Tin Zinc Plating kit
From: Justin <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 14:18:45 -0800
Actually, I did receive rental fees in association with using the crank, a cam, 
and
some connecting rods as props on a Z-MAX info commercial!   And I'm also the 
guy that
make the little aluminum and glass visual aids that the guy holds up to show 
that Z-Max
is clear, rather than dark or cloudy like the competition, etc.

--Justin Wagner

Joe Curry wrote:

> Admit it, Justin.  The crank just looks too pretty to put inside an engine!!  
>:)
>
> Joe(C)
>
> Justin wrote:
> >
> > 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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