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Re: Painting rubber bumpers

To: Sean Johnson <sean_johnson@milacron.com>
Subject: Re: Painting rubber bumpers
From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:43:16 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Sean Johnson wrote:

> While I'm not thrilled about painting a rubber bumper (the concerns about 
> cracked paint due to parking lot dings are legitamate) I'm a whole lot less 
> thrilled about paying $700 for a new bumper.

You can add a flex agent to paint that should minimize the tendency of 
paint to come off.  Also, it would be reasonable to paint the black 
bumper black, so minor cracks or scrapes would not be so noticable.  It 
would not have to be glossy black; there are flatting agents you could 
add to tone the gloss down to a nice sheen.

> As an alternative, is it possible to take a rubber bumper 'B back to chrome 
> bumpers?

There are kits sold in England to convert RBB's to CBB's.

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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