chrisg
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 10:09 PM |
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Painting Chrome
All right all you clever dicks whats the best way to paint chrome?
My wiper arms are chrome and I'd like them black. I know if you just paint 'em it peels off - so whats the answer?
Cheers
Chris
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 10:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
All right all you clever dicks whats the best way to paint chrome?
My wiper arms are chrome and I'd like them black. I know if you just paint 'em it peels off - so whats the answer?
Cheers
Chris
buy some black arms from a motor factor ya mean git!
atb
steve
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chrisg
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 10:45 PM |
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They don't come in black, Mr useful
Cheers
Chris
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Metal Hippy
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 11:04 PM |
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Hefty sanding or shot blasting before painting?
Cock off or cock on. You choose.
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Simon
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 08:29 AM |
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Chris,
I think the secret is getting the chrome off
Perhaps a saline? solution with the wiper arms in, a 9V battery connected to the arms, so current flows out of arms, may remove chrome?
Sort of antichroming.
Anyone else think this'll work?
ATB
Simon
[Edited on 7/8/03 by Simon]
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Spyderman
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 10:26 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Metal Hippy
Hefty sanding or shot blasting before painting?
And etch primer before colour coat.
Spyderman
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Peteff
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 11:05 AM |
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Frost do a phosphate kit that coats stuff with a black finish. It's an electolytic process like chroming but I think you have to buy it so it
might not be suitable . You don't want to mess with the Antichrome, I saw the Exorcist and he is evil incarnate.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Simon
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 11:12 AM |
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My previous post was,of course, complete bull.
Done a google search and came up with:
Possibly the best:
http://yarchive.net/car/reverse_electroplating.html
and the rest:
Removing Chrome Plating
Q. What is the easiest way to remove chrome or can you let me know where to purchase a chemical to do this with as my supplier stopped selling the
stripper that I used.
A. Sodium hydroxide at 8-12 oz/gal (w/v) works well for electrostripping chromium from carbon steel substrates. The bath can be operated at ambient
temperature or higher, at a current density of 0.25 - 1.0 amp/sq.in. The fumes evolved are toxic and must be evacuated and scrubbed. The bath starts
out as a simple solution of caustic soda but acquires an increasing component of a hexavalent chromium compound as the metallic chromium is
electrostripped from the workpieces. The spent solution is hazardous waste and must be properly disposed.
or
http://www.caswellplating.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=672&highlight=remove+chrome
or
http://modelpaint.tripod.com/strippers.htm
ATB
Simon
[Edited on 7/8/03 by Simon]
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andyps
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 12:01 PM |
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The Hippy is right - you can do it by sanding hard - I have paitned what was a chrome grille on my car. On the second attempt I sanded very thoroughly
and the paint has stuck well now - it's a case of getting something for the paint to hold on to.
I was told to use acid etch primer but I couldn't find a source for the small amount I needed so I used elbow grease instead!
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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JoelP
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 12:27 PM |
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where can i get some elbow grease? do halfords sell it?
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timf
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 01:11 PM |
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yeah next to the long weights
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 8/8/03 at 04:41 PM |
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I still cant accept that you cant buy black arms to fit.............most are nowadays!
mr useful
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ijohnston99
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 posted on 8/8/03 at 05:12 PM |
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What donor did they come off of??
Ian
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chrisg
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| posted on 8/8/03 at 06:14 PM |
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Thanks for the answers guys(apart from Steve, obviously)
They're shortened MG Midget ones, the early type with the positive screw fixing rather than the "clip and hope" later type.
I think I'll try sanding them as me and chemicals could be lethal!
Thanks again
Chris
[Edited on 8/8/03 by chrisg]
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 8/8/03 at 09:57 PM |
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chris - try wearing really dark sunglasses!
Then they will look a little bit black.
Wow - all these great ideas!
Just let me know Chris, I have loads more like that
atb
steve
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chrisg
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| posted on 9/8/03 at 02:51 PM |
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yeah, Thanks Steve.
Cheers
Chris
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kiwirex
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| posted on 16/8/03 at 10:08 AM |
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If you've got a week to spare, you could try soaking them in coke. (!)
Don't know if it would work, but I remember an 'experiment' we did in science at high school where we dissolved a coin in coke.
Mind you that was a few years ago.
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macspeedy
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| posted on 16/8/03 at 01:46 PM |
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ca****m do black wiper blade arms its on there web site.
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chrisg
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| posted on 16/8/03 at 08:29 PM |
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Would they still be black once they'd stuck them up their a*se?
Can't see that being a"Locost" solution!
Cheers
Chris
We don't do cateringvan
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