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Barking Mat
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Space, the final frontier, two weeks its taken to get from this...
To this...
That makes one heck of a difference.
That makes one heck of a difference.
Barking Mat
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just never had the time to sort out and organise.
It took two weeks, binned loads of stuff, but mainly making use of lost space. And binning stuff.
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Nah, where's the battery
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Made two geo water swivel shafts
Made them with replaceable wear sleeve as chrome platers ripped me of with 2 thou of chrome for £600 for last pair which was poor
Made them with replaceable wear sleeve as chrome platers ripped me of with 2 thou of chrome for £600 for last pair which was poor
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chromers, poor quality and dear seem to go hand in hand
nice to see that borer making some money
mtt.tr
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im having some bits done from a new firm we found, work looked good will see
Brad93
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Let us know. Exhaust company I do bits for have nightmares as you can imagine. 300+ exhausts a year. 20% or more are scrap and need to be redone or sold as seconds.
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what bothers me is they are expensive for the poor quality, im open that i want to pay for a top job but doesnt seem like that work either
Brad93
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Skills were lost is the reason in most cases
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It was GB hard chrome in Basildon.
Irony, took them back to have chrome striped off to see if I could repair and they said what cowboys only laid two thou!!! I paid extra for a thick layer and told them so
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what are hockley enterprises like these days?
We specify chrome thickness on our part drawings that need it - and request a certificate from the platers stating what it is. Used them for years.
Then we ran into a few issues after having to go to other platers around the country to get the sheer volume of parts we needed - on going back to the original place to check we found they didn't have any way to measure thickness, and never had . . . they'd guessed - pretty well infact over the years. . . Needless to say, to keep our thousands of pounds of business, they have a tester now amd have improved processes which benefited their bottom line too . . .
Then we ran into a few issues after having to go to other platers around the country to get the sheer volume of parts we needed - on going back to the original place to check we found they didn't have any way to measure thickness, and never had . . . they'd guessed - pretty well infact over the years. . . Needless to say, to keep our thousands of pounds of business, they have a tester now amd have improved processes which benefited their bottom line too . . .
Brad93
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Never noticed them. I used to work at30 Nobel Square
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I have Robert Stuart Ltd on my doorstep in Harlow, not very obliging for small jobs. They recommended Hockley Enterprises. They also told me they send fiddly stuff to Hockley. The sort of work that needs strategically placed electrodes to get an even depth of plating.
I've only used Hockley for drum zinc plating of nuts and bolts, worth it just to get them clean. Citroen DS so loads of M7 and M5 in two different pitches.
