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Check out this Chrome plating..........Amazing!!!!
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Is it real??? :)
I crunched some numbers on this interesting product from Japan. I think it works out to around $12,000 for the special and required spraying tools and the various chemicals (consumables) you have to use. This is for about 1.3 gallons. OUCH!!! Surely, I must have miss calculated the Yen to dollar numbers??? If not, is this chrome or gold were talking about? :) It appears this spray system draws from THREE pots, three hoses, to a single sprayer for shooting the stuff. |
Pretty amazing.
Here is another company, in the US, that supplies some really amazing paint, including the same "type" of chroming systems. I have used their rattle cans once and it worked out very nice, just as advertised. Expensive, but certainly less than real plating. And in my case, we "chromed" a fiberglass grill insert on a special design car. It looked just like the factory vapor deposited chrome crap on newer car plastic grills. Clear coated it with polyurethane and it still looks perfect 4 years later. But, as they say, your results may vary. Mine seem to from project to project anyway. http://www.alsacorp.com/ |
and another one.
http://www.goldtouchinc.com/cosmichrome/chromechem.html Interesting stuff, but obviously not a replacement for chrome. This is probably what Holley uses for their Durashine, which they state has a clear coat over the shining agent. |
Bringing this back up because I am in the process of setting up a shop for Cosmichrome. This is the real deal. GM uses them, among other big companies.
If it is applied 100% correct you will have good results if you don't you won't. Room temp, humidity, water quality everything has to be perfect. I hope to be able to report back by late fall early winter 2011. Environmental issues are a problem also. I'm working on it. Going through about 50 pages of MSDS sheets now.:eek: |
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