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I think the company is Caswell Plating. Years ago I ordered one of their kits to do some nickel plating. It is still unopened in my shop. Few shops do what the old outboard companies called "dull nickel". They don’t have the formula. Ted Marston here in the Florida Chapter has been experimenting with formulas to achieve the "dull" effect and has done some nice plating. If you send your parts out be specific as to how you want it done. Often they think everyone wants "show" plating which requires a large buildup and buffing of copper prior to the final nickel. I sent an ELTO flywheel to my plater and told him to not do show plating. I wanted the machine marks on the flywheel to remain. When I picked it up he had buffed all the marks out and it had a mirror finish,—and I wasn’t happy!