if so, what is it like?
(is it worht using this repaint indicator stalks or buying new ones - where from, how £££).
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chrome paint?
anyone used this paint (clicky)?
if so, what is it like?
(is it worht using this repaint indicator stalks or buying new ones - where from, how £££).
if so, what is it like?
(is it worht using this repaint indicator stalks or buying new ones - where from, how £££).
Been in the polishing and plating trade best part of 30 years ( god i feel old)
and paint is paint, and chrome plating is chrome plating, if it was that easy to achieve a plated finish with paint every plating company, believe me, would be installing spray booths instead of plating plants.
and paint is paint, and chrome plating is chrome plating, if it was that easy to achieve a plated finish with paint every plating company, believe me, would be installing spray booths instead of plating plants.
Making the world a shiny place with a factory finish
from the horses mouth 
mikey wrote: if it was that easy to achieve a plated finish with paint every plating company, believe me, would be installing spray booths instead of plating plants.
Some of the chrome I've had back from pro platers looks like it's been sprayed on in a booth.
ps I'm sure from what I've heard from other members this does not include Mikeys standard of work.
I know pasc ive put some right for some people, thats why were i work they dont take on bike and car stuff cuz we are realy commercial platers, and thats what usually happens a commercial plater takes on resto work and just do it to the same standard, but in saying that if its prepared properly as in stripping and polishing no reason why a commercial plater cant achieve a satisfactory finish, plating is very much like spraying its all in the preperation, but there are limitations on some items, like on a Z the fuel cap, indicators and indicator stems are made of zinc die-cast which is notorious for corroding under the plating, and when you strip it you find all sorts of horrors, which sometimes can be covered with a heavy copper deposit and then polish the copper plate,
even then sometimes that has limitations, when we re plated the indicators on my Z we tried a difrent method which if i paid for it would have been very exspensive, though they look lot better than they did, im sure the average customer could find fault with them, and in some cases you can buy new parts cheaper than the cost of replating, worth checking guys before you commit to replating stuff.
even then sometimes that has limitations, when we re plated the indicators on my Z we tried a difrent method which if i paid for it would have been very exspensive, though they look lot better than they did, im sure the average customer could find fault with them, and in some cases you can buy new parts cheaper than the cost of replating, worth checking guys before you commit to replating stuff.
Making the world a shiny place with a factory finish
Mikey, I know what you mean about prep. My pal is a polisher. He used to prep bike stuff for customers before he took it to the platers. He took great care in his prep but more often than not once it got to the platers it would not get treated with the same care and would come back chromed but with knocks and scratches that weren't there after polishing. He does not take on chroming jobs now for this reason.
The other side of the coin is that there are good platers around, you just have to be lucky enough to find them. I used to use a small family company in Brum called Cresswells. Brilliant stuff and guaranteed.
The other side of the coin is that there are good platers around, you just have to be lucky enough to find them. I used to use a small family company in Brum called Cresswells. Brilliant stuff and guaranteed.
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