Painting/clearcoat/plate carb linkages?

[Taymar]

My carb linkages, bellcranks etc. were rusty, soaking them in some chem dip and taking a brass brush to them has cleaned them up nicely, but removed the gold-ish coating they used to have.

I was looking at rustoleum clear enamel as an inexpensive way to protect them, but are there any other options I'm missing to do this on the cheap? Not looking for concours quality just want to keep the rust to a minimum.

[jerry]

i have adopted the habit of merely spray painting all my Cd-plated items (with the exception of nuts and bolts, too much effort) with either a silver and/or gold spray paint.

i'm located near salt water and this practice has noticeably preserved these items from deterioration. i got past the OEM gold-Cd look a while ago. it only lasts for garage-kept cars.

on a similar note, i've noticed a significant viusal improvement in the quality of chrome and silver plated spray paint recently. i found some silver paint that is pretty darned shiny and a good alternative to expensive chrome plating.

[Taymar]

Picked up some high temp silver rustoleum spray, hopefully that'll do the trick. Thanks for the tip!

[tim385]

With some high temp paints I found if you heat the part a bit then spray the paint on it , it dries very quickly then stick it in the oven (i use an old BBQ with a cover) at 200 deg for 10 mins , the result is pretty good and doesnt come off.