looking for plastic chrome?
gday to all you punters out there, and car enthusiests!!
my name is jeff, and i wanna let all the car restorers out there, know what i do, and what service i can provide for your resto project. Can re-chrome your plastic dash cluster for all the early holden/ford, american, vintage, rod, custom, Stick some genuine chrome on there, bring back the "shine". Plastic carcass repairs, to broken parts, gt ford dash re-chrome, . Now, for die-cast steel, eg; bonnet birds, taillight surrounds, indicator surrounds, badges,fender trim etc, we can repair "most" corrorsion defects.I can provide an "extensive metal polishing", and "conventional chrome plating service", as well. Custom work welcomed, and also have fibre glass service at my disposal. im based in croydon park, adelaide, available all weekend. email [email protected] for enquiries.

before you get any plastic parts chromed I would suggest you talk to an experienced plater. There are myriad problems caused by chrome plating on plastic, not least of which is the high amount of build that results from getting it to throw evenly. Resulting in parts that dont fit and loss of detail. Once its done the plastic is ruined as you need to dip it in nitric to strip, and that removes the plasticizers... Do your research.

plater is right to a certain degree, with what he is saying.
As a Toolmaker in the Plastics Injection Moulding industry many years ago, I can add a little piece of info in regards to ABS Plastics as used by many car manufacturers.
All ABS Plastics for Chrome plating use a crosslink additive in the material, plasticizers are not usually added to ABS, as its a very stable co-polymer at moulding temperature. The crosslink additive allows the chromium plating to have something to bond to as the electroplating process is been applied. If you like - the ABS is semi magnetic with this additive. As for researching this subject, this sort of stuff used to be pretty much secret, as the suppliers of plastics raw materials were always very secretive about just what went into their materials, especially when in the 70s many car manufacturers started using more and more plastics in vehicles. It was a very lucrative market back then.

Hello,everyone.learn more knowledge,thanks.

I have a 98 LTD grill that is perfect apart from some deep scratches in the most obvious place,any-one know if the area could be repaired or would the whole grill need to be done? Or chuck it and try to find a good somewhere..
([email protected]) Thanks in advance for any replies.

vacuum metalizing is the correct term isnt it dash man??

and i believe you only get 1 or 2 attempts at it? if you keep trying it after the first attempt, doesnt it get worse after you strip it off again if you are not happy with it the first time?

plastic metalizing can be re-done as many times as you wish. It has no effect on the plastic thats the beauty of it. Hard chrome is rough on the plastic and can cause damage and is very difficult to remove when done. Once again best do it they way the factory did it if you want it to original specs.

dash man

I know most of the discussions on this thread are old but just wanted to throw into the mix that we can provide very good plastic chrome plating services. Someone mentioned these sorts of restorations are dying art forms. We agree and is why we have invested alot of time and effort into developing processes like plastic and non metal chrome plating that will still be needed well into the future. Our website has plenty of info about various chrome plating and other options if youre interested.

cheers

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