Re: Conductive painting pot metal
I agree with CarWiz, I haven't plated anything yet trying this sort of process but I experimented with powdercoating thinking if the filler material held up in the oven it would be fine....
Problem I had was customers returning parts because the powdercoating would crack off in those spots. Atleast with powdercoating the only filler I found to work ok was steel filled epoxy, which I think is the same thing Caswell sells. This may work for the plating but sanding it smooth won't be any faster than the copper plating.
Perhaps you should take one of these parts to a place that restores old chrome parts and see what they would charge and then inform your customers that they won't find any place cheaper to have it done at. It is not cheap to restore a 50 year old part that is badly deteriorated, if you're customers don't realize this they need to find a different hobby.
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