Plating equipment and supplies to arrive soon

Bill D,  

Ross you may regret offering technical advice or assistance.   ;-)  No, not really.

I have to start slow and small - I already have too many things going, to finish or get done to venture off into other directions.
This, for now anyway, will be to cover the jobs I already have lined up that need parts plated.

I tend to do well reading and asking questions (good support from this company) and then fill in any holes by asking other folks who actually have DONE such things.

I do eventually plan to do other SMALL things - plating emblems that may be blemished or have slight pits, or that "belt-line" trim on the early Javelins and AMXs that gets blemished or pitted with age.

I already do the "blackening" and basic small fasteners plating.
This gets me into more advanced plating than I've already been doing - which so far has been restricted to bolts and nuts (*examples below - camera sort of distorted the coloration a bit) and odds and ends like the Motorola brush covers used on 1970 and later, the large pulley nuts and lock washers, the frame bolts - those long special bolts they used.

The new equipment and supplies will allow me to handle the "gold cad" or "yellow zinc" like the wiper motor parts among other things.
It will be a lot more flexible, too.

My goal - get built-up and eventually be able to do this full-time and get out of the job I've been doing for these last years and back into what I really like a whole lot more. If I were to be able to "quit my day job", I could get a lot more shop work done a lot more quickly as right now I'm pretty much restricted to weekends and if lucky an occasional evening. (Not been very lucky lately.   )
Like I told my wife - this is what I really love and if I had days to spend doing it, I'd get a whole lot more done in less time and be a lot happier. I also do better with chunks of time instead of tiny slivers. So - assuming this all works out, the goal is this sort of work - the alternators, wipers, starters and plating of all the things that go along with those items, and add more to eventually put my career path back to the direction I really want it.
I figure as a science nut - having done very well in all the science and physics I have taken over the years, I'll also be using what I already know, and expanding on that.
So yeah, Ross - might pick your brain in the future.

The price of the equipment and first supplies? Take the stuff you see most often talked about on the Internet and double that...... gotta run, time got away from me and there's a meeting in 2 minutes...... more later.

That  looks very nice.

Yup - the end plate is plated and pretty much all other parts are done except for the mounting plate and that's today if all goes well, the final assembly. 

not to derail here but alot of the Vintage motorcycle guys are looing for green and cad colored bit replating and most of the stuff is small.