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1. Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: rdonahue@holli.com (Robert J. Donahue); Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:10:03 -0600 (MDT); I'm getting these pieces from the TD re-chromed at the local chrome shop: 2 - headlight rims 2 - cowl brackets (holds the windscreen up) 2 - seat back brackets 2 - wheel arch retaining brackets 2 - w; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01403.html (7,861 bytes)
2. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 04:10:30 -0400; It was always expensive. The actual chroming is quick, it's the polishing that is a lot of skilled manual labour. Practical Classics had a good article on this the other month. It was something like; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01407.html (8,078 bytes)
3. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: "Jason F. Dutt" <simjason@ix.netcom.com>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:44:26 -0400; I've found that it's almost always cheaper, on our cars at least, to just buy a new part. The only time I've ever known anyone to chrome their parts was one of three situations: 1. The part is no lon; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01414.html (8,943 bytes)
4. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:12:53 -0700 (PDT); 4. The new part is a crappy reproduction, e.g. reproduced bumpers which are thinner metal with very low quality chrome. It's cheaper and better to have the original bumper straightened and rechromed; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01418.html (8,331 bytes)
5. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: Aron Travis <atravis@spacey.net>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:45:16 -0700; Sounds reasonable to me. Both, and I think you hit the nail on the head when you joined cost with the EPA, OSHA too. -Aron"in a frenzy"; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01419.html (7,558 bytes)
6. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: Jurgen Hartwig <gt0003a@prism.gatech.edu>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:52:43 -0400; In this case, Jason, I beg to differ. Most of the chrome parts you can get from Moss and otherwise are cheap Taiwanese made parts with really terrible chrome. Instead of spending $100 or so on a new; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01423.html (8,490 bytes)
7. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD); Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:57:58 EDT; Is there a chrome shop that you recommend?; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01432.html (8,778 bytes)
8. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:48:32 -0400; Hi Bob, Doesn't sound unreasonable. Other parts that you probably will want to have plated, rather than get new ones, are the chrome plates for the side curtain nuts. I bought some new ones from Moss; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01442.html (8,945 bytes)
9. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: ewsinc@blazenet.net (Charlie Baldwin); Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:05:31 -0400; Bob, Here are some prices for rechroming that I had done in 1995 for my TD at a local Harrisburg, PA shop who do a lot of antique car work: Headlight rings - $30 ea. Seat brackets - $30 ea.(seatback; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01444.html (8,746 bytes)
10. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: Arthur Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:25:40 -0400 (EDT); This is true but the quality of the chrome is not always good, it doesn't look good and it doesn't last. I admit though I always buy new because it is the cheaper route. If you have a show car then y; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01451.html (9,638 bytes)
11. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: rdonahue@holli.com (Robert J. Donahue); Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:43:03 -0600 (MDT); (So sorry to hear about Ray Gibbons, his correspondence will be sorely missed.) Those cheap Taiwanese reproductions sure look good when your DPO threw out all the parts that aren't actually needed to; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01463.html (7,608 bytes)
12. Re: Chroming Prices (score: 1): Author: palte@rt.el.utwente.nl (Bert Palte); Date: Fri, 25 Jul 97 08:00:22 +0200; Mr. Donahue wrote, a.o.: Probably a cost thing. A few years ago I've been told that it was the fact that the stuff came from South Africa and that made it politically undesirable to use it, at least; /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01464.html (7,982 bytes)

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