Power Brake Drum Repaint help
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Eastwood has a paint kit to simulate the plating that they had when new.
www.eastwood.com
Eastwood Golden CAD Complete Kit
The Eastwood Golden CAD Kit allows you to easily replicate the look of Golden CAD plating on your parts and hardware.
www.eastwood.com
Also, for future reference, that's your brake booster.
Drums are on the rear axle.
Drums are on the rear axle.
Eastwoods cad look paint doesnt look even close to the original plating. Ive seen people do it countless times at cruise nights. I would just spray it a nice semi gloss black and do the master in a cast color. Just my opinion though.
Theres a few companies out there that sell boosters that are cad plated. I bought one years ago from Pirate Jacks in NC. Not sure if theyre still in business. I put it on ny 81 coupe. Didnt like the look so I tried to paint it. Scuffed it and used epoxy prime. It didnt stick to the plating. Kept peeling so I went with a regular steel factory booster.
Theres a few companies out there that sell boosters that are cad plated. I bought one years ago from Pirate Jacks in NC. Not sure if theyre still in business. I put it on ny 81 coupe. Didnt like the look so I tried to paint it. Scuffed it and used epoxy prime. It didnt stick to the plating. Kept peeling so I went with a regular steel factory booster.
They don't do REAL cad plating anymore from what I've learned. Toxic crap, etc., etc. But generally, up through 84, they plated them. 85 and up they painted them black.
When that cad paint from Eastwood first came out, I tried it on my 71 442 and wish I didn't. PITA and also didn't do a great job. Doesn't look nasty, but not even close to correct.
The other option, if you don't want black, is simply paint it a soft gold color. It won't be all funky colored like original, but it'll present well if absolute originality is NOT the goal.
Of course, if you like spending money...
When that cad paint from Eastwood first came out, I tried it on my 71 442 and wish I didn't. PITA and also didn't do a great job. Doesn't look nasty, but not even close to correct.
The other option, if you don't want black, is simply paint it a soft gold color. It won't be all funky colored like original, but it'll present well if absolute originality is NOT the goal.
Of course, if you like spending money...
I did my booster with the kit years ago, and it looked great. I went to put their clear over it and it lifted to crap. Said screw it, and painted it silver after that.
Not cheap but probably as good as one can get these days especially for a DIY setup.
caswellplating.com
Copy Cad & Zinc Plating Kit - 1.5 Gal
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Thank you but they sadly wont ship to switzerland and ive seen generally people are saying the results are not promisingEastwood has a paint kit to simulate the plating that they had when new.
Eastwood Golden CAD Complete Kit
The Eastwood Golden CAD Kit allows you to easily replicate the look of Golden CAD plating on your parts and hardware.
as someone from switzerland this is helpful so i wont confuse people on accident in the future, thank you
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