Two recent carb restorations

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Tom;

Excellent pics, I hope you don't mind if I stash them in my reference library [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

Funny thing about these carbs--some swear that none of the steel hardware was yellow cad/chromate, and most of the restored Carters (be they AFB's, AVS's or WCFB's) you see such as on eBay usually have all their steel hardware plated bright silver cad/zinc.

However, over the years I've picked up several pics of NOS carbs that did have some of the hardware in yellow as yours does, but here's the kicker--sometimes the springs are yellow, sometimes they're clear...sometimes certain levers or links were yellow, sometimes they were clear...there didn't seem to be much continuity and consistency in regards to how certain parts were plated.

Same thing goes for QJets--I typically find the choke blade and secondary air doors to be clear on most of the original carbs I've had on my bench, but now &amp; then I get one in that has yellow chromated components.

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I've pretty much settled into my own pattern of what gets yellow chromated and what stays clear by using what I've had on my bench for reference. Unless I have a near-NOS/excellent &quot;survivor&quot; carb to start with, I'll probably never be 100% certain as to how each specific component was finished on that particular carburetor, but I try to get them as close as I can.