Actually, you can Chrome plate anything that is electrically conductive. Including a layer of special primer that has tiny tiny nickel particles in it. The primer conducts the juice:
ZAP!
Chromed...Anything.
Plastic, Rubber, Wood, Plaster, Ceramic, Carbon Fiber, Casio digital watches, Dog poop. Anything you can spray the primer on thick enough.
Ok, maybe not Dog poop. But Plastic dog poop for sure.
And yes, its really real chromium not aluminum that has been vaporized on.
The thing is: Chrome IS very very hard but isnt very flexable no matter how thin it is. So it tends to flake off things that are flexable. Like, when you bend your dads car bumper the chrome plating will peel off where its kinked, and cut your finger open when you run your finger by it, not healing for a week to ten days.
Also due to environmental concerns there are less and less places to get things plated with Chrome.
But there are alternatives to the “Old School” That are they say are ”as durable as OEM Automotive Finishes”
See:
http://www.alsacorp.com/products/chromefx/chromefx.htm
http://www.alsacorp.com/products/mir...a_prodinfo.htm
http://www.alsacorp.com/products/she...sheetingfx.htm
and finally for indoor use:
http://www.chrometechusa.com/autoplate.html
I’m particularly interested in the flexable sheeting they made the bikini from.
Heh, heh.
Now, don’t bother me anymore. I have to finish my cup holding console/shifter console/dash with 7” widescreen display. I told you all I was “just about finished with mine”. “Just about” means that there are car guts all over, all the switches and buttons are hanging out holes in the dash by the wires. The inside of my house smells like a boat factory. My dog is mad at me because I haven’t taken her for a ride in weeks and refuses to speak with me until I do. Now I have to be done for the “Arizona VX Spring Show and Shine” On the 17th or I’ll look like a putz! I haven’t shown a car in like...eighteen years and its stressing me out. I want a T shirt and Goody bag dammit! Plus the voices in my head keep telling me they’ll make me do “Terrible things” to the neighbor who’s wall my girlfriend drove my Montero through a while back if my work isn’t a masterpiece.
SpaceTruck'n has "left the building"
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