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Posted by lostfrom68jay@googlemail.com on April 9, 2008, 6:36 pm
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I have a cottage business (www.basscapos.com). I use a truss-head 18-8
SS screw with the project, and spraypaint it gold to try to match the
brass part it fastens. This is weak, I know, but I just can't find any
gold-colored screw that is suitable, and strength is an issue. Does
anyone know of a plating shop that would be well suited to doing a run
of like 500 pieces?
Robobass
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Posted by on April 9, 2008, 6:43 pm
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On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, "lostfrom68...@googlemail.com"
> I have a cottage business (www.basscapos.com). I use a truss-head 18-8
> SS screw with the project, and spraypaint it gold to try to match the
> brass part it fastens. This is weak, I know, but I just can't find any
> gold-colored screw that is suitable, and strength is an issue. Does
> anyone know of a plating shop that would be well suited to doing a run
> of like 500 pieces?
> Robobass
How about using brass or bronze screws?
In the proper alloy they can be as strong as 18-8 screws.
Wolfgang
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Posted by lostfrom68jay@googlemail.com on April 9, 2008, 6:58 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Apr 10, 12:43 am, wfhabic...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, "lostfrom68...@googlemail.com"
>
> > I have a cottage business (www.basscapos.com). I use a truss-head 18-8
> > SS screw with the project, and spraypaint it gold to try to match the
> > brass part it fastens. This is weak, I know, but I just can't find any
> > gold-colored screw that is suitable, and strength is an issue. Does
> > anyone know of a plating shop that would be well suited to doing a run
> > of like 500 pieces?
> > Robobass
>
> How about using brass or bronze screws?
>
> In the proper alloy they can be as strong as 18-8 screws.
>
> Wolfgang
Well, I thought I explained that. I can't seem to find a #6x3/4" truss-
head in anything but ss. The geometry is critical to function, so I
can't deviate far from what I'm using now. Also, bronze I can maybe
see (I'm no metallurgist), but is there really any brass alloy that is
close to 18-8 SS in strength? That flies in the face of my instincts
and experience!
Maybe I'm wrong...
Robobass
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Posted by Gerry on April 9, 2008, 9:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Apr 9, 5:58 pm, "lostfrom68...@googlemail.com"
> On Apr 10, 12:43 am, wfhabic...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, "lostfrom68...@googlemail.com"
>
> > > I have a cottage business (www.basscapos.com). I use a truss-head 18-8
> > > SS screw with the project, and spraypaint it gold to try to match the
> > > brass part it fastens. This is weak, I know, but I just can't find any
> > > gold-colored screw that is suitable, and strength is an issue. Does
> > > anyone know of a plating shop that would be well suited to doing a run
> > > of like 500 pieces?
> > > Robobass
>
> > How about using brass or bronze screws?
>
> > In the proper alloy they can be as strong as 18-8 screws.
>
> > Wolfgang
>
> Well, I thought I explained that. I can't seem to find a #6x3/4" truss-
> head in anything but ss. The geometry is critical to function, so I
> can't deviate far from what I'm using now. Also, bronze I can maybe
> see (I'm no metallurgist), but is there really any brass alloy that is
> close to 18-8 SS in strength? That flies in the face of my instincts
> and experience!
> Maybe I'm wrong...
> Robobass
Have you considered plating the parts yourself? Look here-
http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/index.html and you might find
something you can plate your SS screws with to match your needs
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Posted by Don Foreman on April 10, 2008, 1:27 am
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>On Apr 9, 5:58 pm, "lostfrom68...@googlemail.com"
>> On Apr 10, 12:43 am, wfhabic...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, "lostfrom68...@googlemail.com"
>>
>> > > I have a cottage business (www.basscapos.com). I use a truss-head 18-8
>> > > SS screw with the project, and spraypaint it gold to try to match the
>> > > brass part it fastens. This is weak, I know, but I just can't find any
>> > > gold-colored screw that is suitable, and strength is an issue. Does
>> > > anyone know of a plating shop that would be well suited to doing a run
>> > > of like 500 pieces?
>> > > Robobass
>>
>> > How about using brass or bronze screws?
>>
>> > In the proper alloy they can be as strong as 18-8 screws.
>>
>> > Wolfgang
>>
>> Well, I thought I explained that. I can't seem to find a #6x3/4" truss-
>> head in anything but ss. The geometry is critical to function, so I
>> can't deviate far from what I'm using now. Also, bronze I can maybe
>> see (I'm no metallurgist), but is there really any brass alloy that is
>> close to 18-8 SS in strength? That flies in the face of my instincts
>> and experience!
>> Maybe I'm wrong...
>> Robobass
>
>Have you considered plating the parts yourself? Look here-
>http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/index.html and you might find
>something you can plate your SS screws with to match your needs
Caswell's stuff is very good, but I think you could have 500 small
parts plated for less than it would cost to set up to do it. Brush
plating would be inexpensive, but brush-plating 500 parts would be
quite tedious.
The appeal to Caswell's stuff is that once set up, one-off small jobs
cost almost nothing while taking anything, even one bolt, to a
plating shop costs a job minimum that is never less than $50 and
usually more like $100. I'm still using Caswell stuff I bought more
than 5 years ago and have used many times. I had two small
jobs-in-a-bucket today: one zinc and one tin. The zinc job is a
small steel weldment, the tin job is a copper electrical terminal.
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> SS screw with the project, and spraypaint it gold to try to match the
> brass part it fastens. This is weak, I know, but I just can't find any
> gold-colored screw that is suitable, and strength is an issue. Does
> anyone know of a plating shop that would be well suited to doing a run
> of like 500 pieces?
> Robobass