Weber DCOE carb plating suggestion....

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Alright... i do have some background and experience working with carbs. Primarily holley carb body/dichromate. The weber carb body however doesn't come in that gold finish... and the material does machine a bit differently. It looks like the copy cad/zinc kit would suffice... however, in my past experience we had never used power supply/anode/cathode... believe it was electroless.... comments, suggestions... am i going crazy in my old age

will the black chromate work as well (as the yellow/gold) on these cast carb bodies?

Thanks,

Matt

[jimcarry]

I think as long as you prep the part the Black Chrome will work and look great

[sdold]

Could the look you are looking for be gold Alodine? That doesn't use electricity. It's used on some airplane engine parts. That sounds like what you described.

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Originally Posted by sdold

Could the look you are looking for be gold Alodine? That doesn't use electricity. It's used on some airplane engine parts. That sounds like what you described.

we did use alodine, but only for the baseplates for some reason, i cant recall... different metal obviously.

definatly used dichromate after an acid etch..... and it definatly wasn't connected to an electrode..... oh well, wish i would have realized then that i might want to understand what was going on.