Recently picked up an 81 an 56 and thougt I would sell one and restore the other. Well can't pick one over the other so I am going to try to do them both at the same time. The parts are so similar between the two, I don't think it will be that much more work to do them both. Well, at least not twice as much. Kind of hoping that for 1.5 times the effort, I end up with 2 machines. Plus, I think there will be some economies of scale if I do all the powdercoating at once, have them painted together with the same paint scheme, etc. So far, I have torn both down to the cabinets, removed the stacks, liners etc. Trying to figure out what to zinc plate. My list so far includes the following: door latch but not the sleeve, coin door locking bar, locking bar latches, duck bill coin slot, and the bottle stack components with the exception of the faceplate, which will get powder coated. So, any other components that should be zinced? Any parts of the stack not to plate? Any special instructions for the stack parts to make sure they all fit together again after plating? What about yellow vs silver? Also, any larger coin mech pieces to send while sending in all the rest? I don't want to take on the whole mech, seems like something better left to Tom, but for now I would send in the bigger parts if they dressed things up a bit. Hope this is not too much detail to ask about. Just trying to minimize those moments when you smack yourself in the forehead
and realize you should have done something different or that you left one piece out when sending to the plating shop. Lastly, any recommended midwest platers to use. Would like to make sure to use someone who has done some soda stuff before. Thanks to all.
