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Old 08-20-2023, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark IV View Post
Cad plating is very hard to get done today and small batch is even worse. The waste disposal cost is 90% of the job costs I am told by a plater. You cannot open a cad plating plant in the US that can operate at a profit now.
California is pretty much putting plating out of business. This is just the latest

https://calmatters.org/environment/2...e-plating-ban/

A friend of mine in Colorado did antique restorations on things like old cash registers and he had a plating business. Man those chemicals were nasty. He passed away a few years ago but I think his garage might have qualified as a EPA super site.
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