That guy is an absolute legend. He could have his own channel, he's an absolute natural for demonstrating his genuine enthusiasm for what everyone else probably thinks is a dull routine job.
That brings back memories Dom! All the different smells came back too. I used to help out, when they were short-handed, with the plating of bicycle parts in Nottingham at Raleigh. Pungent but memorable days. Gauntlets and aprons over our boiler suits and hoists for lifting heavy baskets in and out. Always fold the end of your gauntlets back so the drips don't run up your arms!
Brilliant stuff. So interesting. The sign looks great with that finish. Loved the plating process. Some nasty chemicals involved. Looking forward to the glass bit! Great stuff Dom 😊👍
And this unassuming building, filled with giant vats of toxic chemicals and electricals, is where we create all the comic book supervillains. A really interesting video Dom. Thanks for making it!
I loved this episode, I worked for Juno plating in the 70s, the manager Jerry Marshal later opened Hockley Enterprises, I knew some of the lads back then, they joined Jerry from Juno plating. I moved from Southend, I'm in Arkansas USA now. Keep up the good work Dom.
In all my years in manufacturing i have done just about everything you do on your channel and Repair shop and with plating I thought you had me beat but then I remembered in 1967 at 13 years old I had a Saturday job wiring and unwiring the small parts on the racks in a platers. Okay, I wasn't doing the plating but it was close. Keep em' coming Dom. Loving every one. 👍
Dom, I've never been interested in metalwork, car restoration or any of the things you are so passionate about and yet..... Why in the bloody hell am I so absorbed by your videos and enjoy each and every one? You won't catch me giving you any advice except..... keep up the good work :)
That took me back to when I worked at BRICO, in Coventry. They had a large plant for plating engine parts. Some of the tanks had tennis balls floating ontop, I guess so that the stuff would condense on the balls.
My first 'proper' job was in a VW dealer. I worked in the parts dept which was popular with the aircooled folk as they had, quite literally, shed loads of old Type 1,2,3 and 4 panels and hard parts. Of course in the early days of my apprenticeship I would get asked for rad caps and water pumps for Beetles all the time but I soon learned :)
Excellent video. Was completely enthralled by the plating workshop. The skills these people have never cease to amaze me. Sadly I didn't see any younger members of the team to keep the skills alive.
Brilliant episode Dom, the plating work really looks good and the processes as they were explained absolutely awesome. I am not surprised that most plating firms don't want their work processes filmed as the HSE would have a field day in most of them! I bet this firm is on the ball as far as safety is concerned or they too wouldn't have been happy to let you film them working. It was a great lesson in get your plating work done professionally! Looking forward to seeing the glass bending and the neon work!
Absolutely fascinating. I used to go to platers when I was young but my only interest was the finished product, so seeing how it's done was great. Thank you.
That was excellent Dom in the 50s i lived 3 doors away from a chrome plating works in Islington They created all types of coverings . This was excellent to watch again. Take care
That finish looks great! I worked in a plating place in the 1990s - it was one of the worst jobs I ever had. The place you went has all the h&s right. The one I worked in supplied gloves only. There were raised walkways made from pallets between the plating/cleaning vats & they were slippery. The racks for small components that you showed are familiar. We also had big square frames with 200 hooks on each side for doing washers. It must have been tricky to make sure no bubbles got caught in the sign. Horrible when you plate a thing and there's a little bit that doesn't take because of a bubble. Good work on telling us there are several types of battleship grey without making any reference to '50 Shades'. 😁 💚🐇🐴💚
A really fascinating and instructive view into a world that few of us know anything about or are ever likely to encounter. And as a person who was once in charge of health, safely and risk in a large organisation, a real eye-opener! Thanks so much Dom ...
What an excellent video, informative and entertaining. It strikes me this industry could easily be automatically processed and done by machines with over head robots doing the dunking in the various tanks. However, I think something would be lost without the human touch, experience and know how and you wouldn't have such a great finish.
That was a fascinating watch Dom. My old uncle Bert used to work in a plating shop in Birmingham and I always wondered what he did. I remember as a kid (in the early 60's) going down to the factory with my dad on a Saturday with a bag full of my mums cutlery. Dad took them in to the shop but I was never allowed in and had to sit in the office drinking Bovril.
Just love this sort of thing, what a great bunch of guys doing fantastic things, its amazing what goes on in these old buildings that we pass every day Looking forward to the glass bending, another rivetting watch
Interesting process, I was facinated; love the attention to detail. Going back to the place where you have so many memories of your younger days is priceless.
Now this really has brought back some memories for me. I served my electrical sprogship in a manufacturing plant that had its own plating and anodising shops. This is exactly how I remember all the tanks with the various concoctions in them. Got a right ear bashing off the Forman when he caught me stood on top of one of the tanks fixing conduit to the walls, jumped off right quick when told it was one of the cyanide mixes. Thanks very much for sharing - I think the sign looks great, looking forward to the completion.
So fascinating, I now know why I watch this channel, so very interesting. Dom, you do a very good job of making the process of getting the Ranalah manufacturing process easy to understand.
Fascinating Dom. Those guys at the plating yard are amazing to watch legging it from one tank to another. Quite a transformation from dull manky metal to shiny chrome. Cheers Dom, great video
There's a place in Southampton that does chrome finishes. Love the fact that these places are still around, if anything the last 2 years has shown us and that's that we definitely need to move manufacturing back to the UK, on a massive scale.
Wow! The plating works is amazing. It's a very dark art! I worked in an optical instrument factory in the 60s which had its own plating shop. I've done a little nickel plating at home with good results, but this is on another level. Nice one, Dom!
Thank you Dom, you took me down memory lane, as I come from Southend and now live in Suffolk. By the way I think you have done the right thing with the sign, I think it looks great and can't wait to see the finished article!! 😀 👍
Alchemy is alive in Sarf-end! That was fascinating, I could just see a Guy Ritchie movie in that factory with some unfortunate getting dunked in an acid bath! My Nan used to live in Southend loved visiting a really interesting town (City).
Wow what a trip down memory lane! I have bought parts from Karman and had chrome plating done a couple of times at Hockley Enterprises. I thought you were familiar. I am glad Hockley are still there and not changed much. They give a really good service and their chrome plating is great. I wish I was still there so I could get my parts done by them again.
Our Greek friend should have his own TH-cam channel. This was surprisingly satisfying to watch!
From his grave!!
That guy is an absolute legend. He could have his own channel, he's an absolute natural for demonstrating his genuine enthusiasm for what everyone else probably thinks is a dull routine job.
That was utterly fascinating. I bet Prince Phillip would have loved that!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Haha!
George is a treasure! I thoroughly enjoyed that.
That was absolutely fascinating! Clearly, all the lads at the platers are highly skilled.... but George!??? He’s a complete star! 👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks Dom made my back and arms ache just watching those guys in the plating workshop 👍😂
Grandpa thinks you should have a show. Can't wait for the finished product.
That brings back memories Dom! All the different smells came back too. I used to help out, when they were short-handed, with the plating of bicycle parts in Nottingham at Raleigh. Pungent but memorable days. Gauntlets and aprons over our boiler suits and hoists for lifting heavy baskets in and out. Always fold the end of your gauntlets back so the drips don't run up your arms!
I was unaware that you had made "The Repair Shop" logo till today.
That is such an integral part of the show🤯🥳
Well done‼️
Yes that was me! Thank you,
Brilliant video Dom , thanks for showing how the plating process is done ,very interesting.
Can't wait for the Neon tubes to go in 👍😁regards Frank
Brilliant stuff. So interesting. The sign looks great with that finish. Loved the plating process. Some nasty chemicals involved. Looking forward to the glass bit! Great stuff Dom 😊👍
Fascinating process. Couldn’t get John Haig out of my head though.
And this unassuming building, filled with giant vats of toxic chemicals and electricals, is where we create all the comic book supervillains.
A really interesting video Dom. Thanks for making it!
Absolutely fascinating. wonderful team of guys.
Wow how interesting was that. It is great to see an old style business keeping old skills still alive.
all those times of been in KK and never knew about the platers across the road! great to see stuff like this!
Magic! talking dog, driverless car AND Prince Philip :)))) beautiful job Dom.
The look of zinc plate harkens back to the war years when these machines were rolling out sheet metal for aircraft...great job !!!
I loved this episode, I worked for Juno plating in the 70s, the manager Jerry Marshal later opened Hockley Enterprises, I knew some of the lads back then, they joined Jerry from Juno plating. I moved from Southend, I'm in Arkansas USA now. Keep up the good work Dom.
One of the joys of life is talking to people about what they do. You can see them light up when you ask them to explain the details.
Wow! Very interesting, but those chemicals! Reminds me of wet photography processing on a major scale!
In all my years in manufacturing i have done just about everything you do on your channel and Repair shop and with plating I thought you had me beat but then I remembered in 1967 at 13 years old I had a Saturday job wiring and unwiring the small parts on the racks in a platers. Okay, I wasn't doing the plating but it was close. Keep em' coming Dom. Loving every one. 👍
What an exciting video. The Fascinating coatings processes, the Ghost of a Royal AND a talking Dog 🙂
Can't wait to see her finished. Magnificently zinc finished. Perfect. Great decision.
Great to see the plating process, thanks for sharing 😎👍🏻 the sign looks top notch 😍😎👍🏻
I've seen a few 'bending glass for neon signs' videos before, and it's wonderful to watch, so I'm looking forward to the next video in this series.
Wow. Having worked in a school science lab for goodness knows how many years I sort of understand the processes; but on that scale!? Just wow.
That was a very interesting video Dom, top work from the guys at Hockley.
Well done for documenting the plating process. Always great to see the passion in these craftsmen as they go about their business. Thank you.
Dom, I've never been interested in metalwork, car restoration or any of the things you are so passionate about and yet..... Why in the bloody hell am I so absorbed by your videos and enjoy each and every one? You won't catch me giving you any advice except..... keep up the good work :)
Haha thanks so much I am glad your enjoying them!
That was a very enjoyable video! Love these old school companies that are getting rarer every day.
What an Informative "How To" Video. Very interesting to say the least. See you in the next one. 👍👍
A brilliant watch ! Plating is a fascinating process. As everyone has said George was a good watch a true character,like yourself.
A great video dom very interesting to see what can be plated.
That took me back to when I worked at BRICO, in Coventry. They had a large plant for plating engine parts. Some of the tanks had tennis balls floating ontop, I guess so that the stuff would condense on the balls.
Tennis balls are hairy. They were more like large ping pong balls in my work's large Plating Shop from memory
Lovely story, well told and brilliantly engaging. Thanks
So glad you enjoyed it thank you
My first 'proper' job was in a VW dealer. I worked in the parts dept which was popular with the aircooled folk as they had, quite literally, shed loads of old Type 1,2,3 and 4 panels and hard parts. Of course in the early days of my apprenticeship I would get asked for rad caps and water pumps for Beetles all the time but I soon learned :)
I can see why tours are such a rare opportunity. Thanks for this introduction to plating. Love discovering how much magic goes into everyday objects.
the sign is looking awesome Dom :) great looking round the factory and watching all the sign baths :)
Excellent video. Was completely enthralled by the plating workshop. The skills these people have never cease to amaze me. Sadly I didn't see any younger members of the team to keep the skills alive.
Really enjoyed watching the process, 28 minutes just flew by. Look forward to seeing it finished.
Really glad to hear it thank you
Brilliant episode Dom, the plating work really looks good and the processes as they were explained absolutely awesome. I am not surprised that most plating firms don't want their work processes filmed as the HSE would have a field day in most of them! I bet this firm is on the ball as far as safety is concerned or they too wouldn't have been happy to let you film them working. It was a great lesson in get your plating work done professionally! Looking forward to seeing the glass bending and the neon work!
Brilliant I really enjoyed this video Dom, alchemy at its best.
Amazing place, not a computer in sight, nice to see an old trade still thriving in this microchip world.
Always a treat to watch Craftsmen (capital is intentional!) at work. Thank you. Les
They were A clever bunch!
I like it! .. but more importantly you are obviously very excited with the results, and that's what reaaly matters!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
37 years on the job is real dedication! Thanks for showing us the process. Makes me appreciate more when I see shiny bits on classic cars.
Very interesting process Dom. Couldn't help but chuckle😁 with the perfectly timed Wendy "Hello"
What an amazing video. Very informative and well put together.
Absolutely fascinating. I used to go to platers when I was young but my only interest was the finished product, so seeing how it's done was great. Thank you.
That was excellent Dom in the 50s i lived 3 doors away from a chrome plating works in Islington They created all types of coverings .
This was excellent to watch again.
Take care
That finish looks great!
I worked in a plating place in the 1990s - it was one of the worst jobs I ever had. The place you went has all the h&s right. The one I worked in supplied gloves only. There were raised walkways made from pallets between the plating/cleaning vats & they were slippery.
The racks for small components that you showed are familiar. We also had big square frames with 200 hooks on each side for doing washers.
It must have been tricky to make sure no bubbles got caught in the sign. Horrible when you plate a thing and there's a little bit that doesn't take because of a bubble.
Good work on telling us there are several types of battleship grey without making any reference to '50 Shades'. 😁
💚🐇🐴💚
That was fascinatng! So nice to see guys enthusiastic about their work.
Very interesting Dom.👍👍
So good .... All that and you stopped by KK! I remember the old shop well. Stopped in there a number of times back in the day!
A really fascinating and instructive view into a world that few of us know anything about or are ever likely to encounter. And as a person who was once in charge of health, safely and risk in a large organisation, a real eye-opener! Thanks so much Dom ...
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much!
Can't wait Dom !!!.
Very interesting seeing the plating process, thank you to them and you for sharing this with us all
What an excellent video, informative and entertaining. It strikes me this industry could easily be automatically processed and done by machines with over head robots doing the dunking in the various tanks. However, I think something would be lost without the human touch, experience and know how and you wouldn't have such a great finish.
That was a fascinating watch Dom. My old uncle Bert used to work in a plating shop in Birmingham and I always wondered what he did. I remember as a kid (in the early 60's) going down to the factory with my dad on a Saturday with a bag full of my mums cutlery. Dad took them in to the shop but I was never allowed in and had to sit in the office drinking Bovril.
I love old places like that
Love that Dom has brought Prince Phillip back from the great beyond to declare Southend a City…..
Just love this sort of thing, what a great bunch of guys doing fantastic things, its amazing what goes on in these old buildings that we pass every day Looking forward to the glass bending, another rivetting watch
Brilliant! It is so good to see all the processes thanks muchly.
I'm really enjoying this project. Thanks for the plating shop tour. Looking forward to some glass bending next weekend.
Interesting process, I was facinated; love the attention to detail. Going back to the place where you have so many memories of your younger days is priceless.
no matter how many times I watch this process, it's always fascinating. What a great team.
Now this really has brought back some memories for me. I served my electrical sprogship in a manufacturing plant that had its own plating and anodising shops. This is exactly how I remember all the tanks with the various concoctions in them. Got a right ear bashing off the Forman when he caught me stood on top of one of the tanks fixing conduit to the walls, jumped off right quick when told it was one of the cyanide mixes. Thanks very much for sharing - I think the sign looks great, looking forward to the completion.
So glad you plated it. It has just the right feel 👍👍👍
Glad you agree thank you
Nice touch at the end there with the gold typeface 👍
So very cool. Thank you Dom for sharing that process. Thanks for taking the mystery out of it.
Fascinating
Great vid kid. Thanks for posting...It would be helpful if Prince Charles had a word with the registrar about a deed pole change to Philip.
So fascinating, I now know why I watch this channel, so very interesting. Dom, you do a very good job of making the process of getting the Ranalah manufacturing process easy to understand.
Fascinating Dom. Those guys at the plating yard are amazing to watch legging it from one tank to another. Quite a transformation from dull manky metal to shiny chrome. Cheers Dom, great video
Music sounds very much like AIR moonlight safari...love it 👍
I loved that. My workplace Health and Safety team would be apoplectic trying to pass that workshop. Fantastic stuff, loved the Greek guy.
Fascinating insight and a great result, looking forward to seeing it all lit up!
Fascinating video Dom - Some very serious chemicals there !!!!
Very scientific and labor intensive process. Great tour.
What a fascinating process, thanks Dom. Best wishes
Thanks Dom what a brilliant video love it 👍🇬🇧
There's a place in Southampton that does chrome finishes. Love the fact that these places are still around, if anything the last 2 years has shown us and that's that we definitely need to move manufacturing back to the UK, on a massive scale.
Wow! The plating works is amazing. It's a very dark art! I worked in an optical instrument factory in the 60s which had its own plating shop. I've done a little nickel plating at home with good results, but this is on another level. Nice one, Dom!
Thank you Dom, you took me down memory lane, as I come from Southend and now live in Suffolk. By the way I think you have done the right thing with the sign, I think it looks great and can't wait to see the finished article!! 😀 👍
Great video, looking forward to the next installment.
Great VLOG once again. Very interesting cant wait to see the glass made.
Colour looks good Dom
Thank you!
Alchemy is alive in Sarf-end! That was fascinating, I could just see a Guy Ritchie movie in that factory with some unfortunate getting dunked in an acid bath! My Nan used to live in Southend loved visiting a really interesting town (City).
Nice one Dom!! I Look forward to the follow up, Thanks.
I worked at a machine shop near Bicester where we had cadmium plating capabilities. I wish I had that available to me now!
Really a magnificent look at how the process works. So cool!
I used to deliver to a platers one the things you don't get on the video are the smells. One area used to smell like pear drops.
Been waiting for this one, worth the wait I am happy out now, very interesting video Dom thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Fascinating! Looks like a gnarly job to have.
Wow what a trip down memory lane! I have bought parts from Karman and had chrome plating done a couple of times at Hockley Enterprises. I thought you were familiar. I am glad Hockley are still there and not changed much. They give a really good service and their chrome plating is great. I wish I was still there so I could get my parts done by them again.
Totally fascinating. The sign looks great. Can’t wait to see it finished.
Thank you!
Fantastic episode. So enjoyable to watch and really informative
Hi Dom, Looks a fantastic job, gob smacked, with the whole process, ( can't wait for the next step bring on the Gas) Nice one All the Best Brian 🤗😎
The sign is looking great. Will be good to see it fully finished