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Ok, so we all gang together, all members, we all throw our bits into a barrel until it's full, send it away and then sort out who's part is who's when they come back. Can't see any problems with that, can you?
Hmm ..being remote I can fully understand Ian's take on this and I admit that I did pretty good prep on the stuff I had done at Allenchrome. However, , he told me I didn't really need that level of prep due to their own prep that is part of their process. The travel factor cost doesn't come into it in my case as either my wife, my son or myself pass there at least once a week. Sadly, they won't now do a batch the size of the one in my pic. They need a full barrel, from a single customer, which is probably about 25 kilos. Julie will confirm this. My experiences on the chemicals is that they do get contaminated after quite a bit of plating (particularly by iron) and the anodes do get consumed. OK you can use hydrogen peroxide etc to restore but it's a load of messing about. Dont get me wrong I do agree with home plating as long as you have the time and patience but it's not particularly cheap...just the amount of Di water you use really adds up.
Quote from: Oddjob on January 26, 2022, 01:46:02 PMOk, so we all gang together, all members, we all throw our bits into a barrel until it's full, send it away and then sort out who's part is who's when they come back. Can't see any problems with that, can you?In theory that sounds a good plan Ken. But, not every part can be barrel rolled, there are still lots of parts on our bikes that need to be wired, individually and its the labour involved in individual wiring that make the process expensive. Plus, you would never be able to return the correct, exact items, to the right owner. It would be a nightmare and if one persons prep is not as good as another, there is a big problem.
Quote from: Nurse Julie on January 26, 2022, 02:28:30 PMQuote from: Oddjob on January 26, 2022, 01:46:02 PMOk, so we all gang together, all members, we all throw our bits into a barrel until it's full, send it away and then sort out who's part is who's when they come back. Can't see any problems with that, can you?In theory that sounds a good plan Ken. But, not every part can be barrel rolled, there are still lots of parts on our bikes that need to be wired, individually and its the labour involved in individual wiring that make the process expensive. Plus, you would never be able to return the correct, exact items, to the right owner. It would be a nightmare and if one persons prep is not as good as another, there is a big problem.Actually Julie, that was a tongue in cheek post. It would never work, far too many parts look almost identical.