Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Jordan Baker]

More plating being done today. This time with zinc on the battery disconnect switch. I’m quite happy with the results as it is letting me bring these parts back instead of simply replacing them.

The first picture shows how flat the finish is before being buffed with a brass wire wheel.

On the switch rebuilding I used brass nuts and washers on the two studs. I also put in new fibre washers as the originals had seen better days.

[Robert Bergeron]

You are a metal magician Jordan !

[David Dunlop]

Nice looking plating again, Jordan.

I have not worked with nickel yet, myself, but am toying with the idea, if I can figure out how a ‘Satin Nickel Finish’ is arrived at. How do the nickel plated parts look, right after the plating process and dried off a bit?

David

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks guys, I owe it to David for posting about this with his wireless rebuild.

As for a satin nickel, I don’t think there is much we can do at the home level. A lot will have to do with the surface finish of the base metal. From what I’ve read, some will beadblast or use a scotch bright pad to scuff the metal. Then plate.

Right out of the solution it was dead flat. I used a buffing wheel and it polished up.

[Jordan Baker]

Battery disconnect switch is now finished. Painted and baked in the oven. This should easily give another 80 years of service.

[Jordan Baker]

This afternoon I removed the two forward equipment panels. Underneath the drivers side one I found a hand painted number. I believe this to be a possible hull number. Also interesting was the red rubber pads glued to the backside of each panel.

[Jordan Baker]

The proper NOS fuses arrived in the mail today from England and were installed into the fuse box.