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Hi folks,

I have an original arm and reproduction yoke from a Duplex Phonograph that needed plating. The nickel on the original arm was completely gone and there was no other option. The reproduction yoke never had plating so it was time.. I thought that everyone might want to see the work that was done..Ron was a great guy and had a reasonable turn around time(approx 2 weeks).

Joe

Wow, two weeks? That's an excellent turnaround time. I nickeled a bunch of parts on a typewriter and it took me about a month as I had to buy chemicals, set up for everything, do tons of surface prep, spend time actually doing the plating and then polish it all one piece at a time by hand. Which (as it was an old-fashioned typewriter with a lot of metal on it) was a lot of polishing.

Your Duplex is going to be a fantastic machine. I hope everyone who's on the fence about having the plating done on their favorite phonographs can go ahead & do it as what you've got there looks sharp.

Very nice work!

- Bill

what was the cost for this work.

I’m the guy who originally recommended Nashville Plating to the hobby. I first discovered them when having some banjo parts plated. Ron understands historic plating finishes, and can match anything. Great people to work with.

The original post author would do very good if he reposts that info onto the Links section of the forum, for further reference

I had nothing but trouble with Nashville Plating. I got an estimate for chrome plating a slot machine face plate and some other small slot parts. It was $500 and I went for it. The casting had pits all over it in 2 areas when I got it back. When I complained he said I obviously never restored anything before. He said that was the best he could do because it was pot metal. I explained the piece was cast iron and I was not happy. He should have filled the small pits and then plated it. I said I would pay for shipping both ways if he could do it right because it looked like crap. He said no. Now I am out the money and have to get someone to do it over. I would never recommend them.

Bob