Quoting FlyingEagle:
Good point Brad.
TJ
I painted my Transistor bracket and installed it, much like our guy in this thread.
I saw the base of the transistor/heat sink and figured a clean surface would have to do for the time being.
Wonder where the best places to get that cadmium plating would be?
Is that what they call the coating on most of the metal parts, that look rather yellow?
I'm sure the green stuff is a different coating altogether.
/TJ
I think what was on our car brackets is a cadium plating. Which many places no longer do, due to the environmental concerns. It is toxic, and should not be handled, so it is now only used in applications where nothing else is acceptable.
It has been replaced with several other types of plating, but I don't think any of them work as well as the old cadmium plating overall. I don't know what to suggest as a replacement right now. Some of the zinc coatings people do are mostly decorative, not very protective. Nickel plating looks good, but has its downsides as well. The best sounding substitute for these brackets, from what I have read, may be a tin-zinc.