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Services

 -Steel and Pot Metal

• Removal of Existing Plate
  The first step in the restoration of your parts is the removal of all existing plating. To ensure a quality job the part must be brought down to its base metal. This is done by a chemical that removes the existing chrome and nickel plating.
  
• Part Cleaning
  After the plating has been removed, the parts are sandblasted clean, and/or chemically cleaned to remove rust. This helps us identify the flaws (pitting, scratches, rot) in the base metal that must be addressed.
  
• Repair
  For those parts that are deeply pitted or rotted, our welders will either cut out and prefabricate the rotted area or will solder the flawed areas. Our welders have developed the skills and techniques required to address both the variety of metal and metal condition faced in restoring old metal parts.
  
• Polishing
  Using  a series of abrasives your parts are polished to a near mirror like finish. Over the years our worker have devised a number to techniques and tools that polish the metal without damaging the fine detail . This is especially  necessary in the handling of the more delicate pot metal castings used in many older cars.
  
• Copper Plating
  After polishing your parts are copper plated. The copper plate both protects the metal and allows our worker to buff your parts to a near flawless condition.
  
• Buffing
  Your parts are removed from the copper solutions, rinsed and buffed. In the buffing process soft cloth wheels are used to remove small surface imperfections and to bring the parts to a mirror shine.
  
• Nickel Plating
  Your parts are cleaned and immersed in our nickel plating tank. To insure a quality product our platers continue to monitor the condition of the  plating solutions. After approximately one hour your parts are removed with a brilliant nickel plate.
  
• Chrome Plating
  The final step of chrome plating gives protection and luster to your parts. It is the last step in the Triple Chrome Plating Process (1)Copper (2)Nickel (3)Chrome).
  
• Inspection
  Your parts are inspected at all steps in the production process. For instance if a flaw is found after copper buffing it is either returned for additional copper plating or sent back to the welders to repair the defect.

 -Aluminum Processing

• Most aluminum parts have an anodized surface that needs to be chemically removed before processing. After chemical treatment, all dents are removed prior to polishing and buffing to a mirror finish. The piece is then chemically cleaned to remove the buffing compound, and the aluminum surface is re-anodized. 
  
• If desired, aluminum parts can be chrome plated. The process is identical to the process used for steel except for the use of special pre-plating solutions to allow the copper, nickel, chrome plating to adhere to the aluminum surface.

 -Powder Coating

• Powder Coating which can best be described as a plastic coating that is applied to metal parts using electricity (to made the powder  adhere) and heat provided by large ovens (to melt or cure the plastic powder to the part) is available in a variety of colors. Nu-Chrome has coated parts as small as bolts and as large as a car frame.