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Restoration / Re: BrakeBoosters.com on the Velocity Channel!

« on: October 16, 2014, 03:58:03 PM »

Thanks Mike.  Glad you liked your booster! 

Polishing is definitely the way to make a pitted booster nice again.  Once the pitted booster face or back half is polished to remove the pits, it's textured and then plated to give you a show quality booster. 

Steve

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Restoration / Re: Restoring a galvanized finish ???

« on: October 16, 2014, 03:47:49 AM »

Just happened to see this thread, as it caught my attention since the dust shields for the front disc brakes have a galvanized finish on them that seems to be hard to replicate also.  I've used SOS pads on a old galvanized gas can to clean it up and it did a great job brightening up the plating, without removing it.  I'd be a little careful with vinegar as the acids in it may want to tarnish the coating or start a down grading process you may not want.  Steve

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Restoration / Re: BrakeBoosters.com on the Velocity Channel!

« on: October 16, 2014, 03:40:24 AM »

Thanks for the kind words guys.  Your business is always appreciated!

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Restoration / BrakeBoosters.com on the Velocity Channel!

« on: October 07, 2014, 08:55:55 PM »

For those of you that happen to watch the Velocity Channel, their show, Performance TV, will be doing a segment on my brake boosters and related products this month.  They will be replacing a booster on a 1970 Chevelle and discussing things related to that topic.  Not sure how it will look or what they will say, so it will be new for me too.  The air dates air currently October 24th at 3pm EST and October 26th at 5pm PST.  If there are any changes to that schedule, I will list them here.  My thanks to all of you who have been loyal customers over the past 31 years!

Steve Gregori

Brake Boosters Inc

www.brakeboosters.com

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General Discussion / Re: Repo delco moraine boosters.

« on: December 24, 2010, 11:59:47 PM »

Well, we can look at the outside of as many 40 plus year old boosters as you care to post pictures of.  Or try to figure out what we can see in fuzzy 43 year old pictures.  I think the only way to get a clue as to what these boosters looked like when new is to see what's left on the inside of those same boosters.  I saved those pictures I posted for this very reason.  That purported 13,000 mile, completely untouched survivor car looks like someone's bad attempt at restoring a booster.  I've seen many of those too, come through my shop to finally get it right.  As you see in the pictures I posted, the plating is shiny and it does have reds and greens running thru it, not monochrome gold.

Seems like it's difficult for some to acknowledge that those pictures I posted look like zinc plating and not Cadmium and certainly not DULL Cad.  I guess the lab folks missed on that one..........

Instead of trying to direct people to your business by saying that only you have the correct plating, Jerry, maybe you should let our equally knowledgable owners decide for themselves. 

Steve Gregori
Brake Boosters Inc.
www.brakeboosters.com

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General Discussion / Re: Repo delco moraine boosters.

« on: December 24, 2010, 12:40:44 AM »

I don't know if there is an average 40 year old booster.  I have some customer's boosters here now that have no pitting on them at all.  Very beautiful when they're done!  The condition of booster is directly related to where they lived their life and whether or not they had brake fluid on their surface for any length of time.  It's getting tougher every year to find mint cores.......

It is possible to have pits polished out, if they're not too deep.  My polisher has been doing that for over 20 years now.
Steve  

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General Discussion / Re: Repo delco moraine boosters.

« on: December 24, 2010, 12:08:40 AM »

Ii always find it interesting when people become the final word on what's correct and what's not.  After restoring at least 10,000 boosters in the 27 years I've been in business, I guess I can speak with some experience as to what boosters may have looked like when they were new.  When you open up a booster that's had a good life, you can get a real good idea what the outside finish might have looked like when the car was new.  That 29 mile original booster looks like it has lost most of it's gold wash in the 40 years it has been exposed to the atmosphere.  I venture a guess that if it was opened up, it would have a shiny gold finish inside.

Rather than try and promote my business here as others are doing, I will only say that I have had many boosters in my shop that were Cad plated by someone else and they don't look anything like what I see on the inside of original GM boosters. 

I've attached a couple of pictures of original plating on the inside of boosters.  One is a 1970 Chevelle and the other is a 1967 Corvette.  Remember, these pieces are at least 40 years old, so some fading and dulling will happen, even in the best of circumstances.  You can see the plating was indeed shiny zinc.................

Thanks, Steve Gregori  Brake Boosters Inc.
www.brakeboosters.com