- 1. Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: mga <mga@napanet.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:00:43 -0700 (PDT)
- As I get down to the details on my '73 B GT, one of them is the central air inlet on the dash. Originally, there was chrome finish as a highlight around the vents. Now its half worn off. There is a
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00938.html (7,272 bytes)
- 2. Re: Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: Enrique Claure <spanlab@ceibo.entelnet.bo>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:29:21 -0400
- Don, that information is new to me so if you can pass along their address I would appreciate. While restoring my second Karmann Ghia I came across the courtesy lamp that goes above the rear view mirr
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00940.html (7,377 bytes)
- 3. Re: Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:47:59 -0400
- I have no experience, but Caswell Plating sells kits to do this: http://www.caswellplating.com/ Essentially, you coat the plastic with a conductive powder, and then plate that. -- Trevor Boicey, P. E
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00950.html (7,759 bytes)
- 4. Re: Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:28:10 -0500
- I used to "chrome" plastic model parts in the bell-jar of the vacuum system in the lab I worked in back in 1964. I just would pump the system way down with the part loaded on a spindle in the middle
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00954.html (8,851 bytes)
- 5. Re: Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:41:22 -0700
- There was a recent discussion on the Barracuda list about dash bezel restoration. The fellow was sending his to a place in or near Fort Worth TX (maybe the same place). Other listers were very positi
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00968.html (8,110 bytes)
- 6. Re: Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: MGMagnette@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:52:06 EDT
- What used to restore the bezels of my light switches was hobby-shop peel and stick chrome for plastic models. Its real thin adhesive polished aluminum I think. Looks really good when its done... bett
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00974.html (7,115 bytes)
- 7. Re: Chrome plating plastic question (score: 1)
- Author: bburrows@webtv.net (Bruce Burrows)
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
- --WebTV-Mail-29236-2024 Rock Your report (see below) is a fascinating one for me. When I was a young boy my dad (now deceased) made his own telescopes. He designed and built such a vacuum evaporative
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg01087.html (11,328 bytes)
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