Does anyone have cadmium color rims? What color is it, silver or yellow or ???
Hi John,
Cadmium is silver (argent silver?) in color. I debated doing my rims in this color a few years ago, but went with gloss black powdercoat instead.
Ted
All of the QDRs (quick demountabel rims) were cadmium plated to keep them from rust welding themselves to the fellow,the outside metal rim the wooden spokes go into, and the dog clamps. Most of the cars came with the cadmium 'nude' or natural so the rims appears 'white' in the old b+w photos. However there are factory photos around that show the rims in some dark color,maybe black,maybe body color. However I would think that the rims were still cad plated underneath.
(fyi-'argent' is French for 'silver'. L'argent means 'the money' in French coming from the first kind of money which was silver coins. They never invented a newer word. You have to know the sense of the sentence to know whether they are talking about the color silver or money.)