Topic: 67 door latch and post plating

[Bossbill]

Okaaay, that's been a while since this was updated.
I thought we could zoom in on date markings for these.

The post itself is clearly of Mo-Yr. Mine are 1-67 and 2-67 for an early March car.

I lost track of which of these latches belong on my car, but I think it's the upper pair.
The latch has its date pretty well hidden within the rotating catch well.

Jeff does not have a section for dates on latches in the library and my search-foo is weak today.
Here are of my dates which leads to believe these are Yr AlphaMonth AlphaShift.
I'm thinking the year and month are correct and don't have any of these past D on the last letter.

[Bossbill]

A post script on the door post (on the body). If you plate this at home run a wire from the main body to the cover in the center post. There is rubber vulcanized to the post and a metal cover is wrapped around the rubber. NVH is my guess.
And yes these are dated and there is also a maker's mark.

Also, I thought I understood the finishes but now I'm not sure anymore due to nomenclature.
Please critique the drawing below.

[Bob Gaines]

A post script on the door post (on the body). If you plate this at home run a wire from the main body to the cover in the center post. There is rubber vulcanized to the post and a metal cover is wrapped around the rubber. NVH is my guess.
And yes these are dated and there is also a maker's mark.

Also, I thought I understood the finishes but now I'm not sure anymore due to nomenclature.
Please critique the drawing below.

That would be typical IMO. There are variations.

[Bossbill]

Thanks! That should be tricky, Bob. I wonder how others take these apart and then back together!

[Bob Gaines]

Thanks! That should be tricky, Bob. I wonder how others take these apart and then back together!

I haven't heard of others taking them apart. It is a matter of plating them in place and by covering some parts and wiping off the dichromate on other parts.

[Bossbill]

According to everything noted above I should take this latch and now lightly remove gold on everything but the 2 pins and the two catches.

Too bad because it looks nice like this.

I'm doing all the difficult stuff now that I have a handle on how to plate and shield areas.

[ruppstang]

I haven't heard of others taking them apart. It is a matter of plating them in place and by covering some parts and wiping off the dichromate on other parts.

+1 that is what I did.