Denny Esterline wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Mark Hanchey wro= te: >> On 1/20/2013 7:00 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >>> Here in Brazil I know places that do all kinds of electroplating, >>> where I can throw in a piece or a few for a relatively small cost >>> if they have a bath already set up. Maybe worth it to check your >>> city for something like it, but I'm not sure whether these type of >>> shops exist in the "first world". Gerhard >>=20 >> Shops like that exist in the 'first world' but during the transition >> from third to first the cost increases 10x and the customer service >> degrades by 10x .=20 >>=20 > In a past life I did I.T. work for a company that made chrome plated > plastic parts for the automotive industry. The idea of "throwing in > your part" would probably been a firing offense for everybody > involved. Not that anybody cares about _your_ part, but you just > created a new process variable for the 10k other parts in that > production run....=20 Yes, this was my doubt. The shops I was talking about don't have much of a formal quality control, the production is more craft than industry (much manual work) and the batches are typically small. Not sure something like that even exists anymore in more industrialized countries in this field. Gerhard --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .