Once the brackets were tig welded on i masked off the chrome that was still in good shape, and sprayed the welds, and new brackets with chrome paint The axle and brackets still look great, and the chrome paint looks like a polished aluminum finish. My reflectors had almost no silver plating left, and just a copper look to them I considered polishing the reflectors, and then clear coating, but decided to instead paint them with chrome paint instead I reworked the reflectors by buying a pair of junk headlamps from a 90's car that had halogen headlamps. Think of it as chrome on your rusty wheel
The best your going to be able to accomplish is cleaning the rust off the top of the chrome and sealing the rust from water, wax,wax,wax,,, then rechrome or replace the wheel. Pot metal is easiest described as a piece of termite infested wood You cannot properly address the pitting until the plating has been stripped I've seen decent looking pieces turn to swiss cheese after the plating was removed Chrome plating must be chemically removed from pot metal They put it in the tank and reverse the charge to remove it.
Call a plater for details. Sioux plating still is the place to use They have a desmoines place you can drop it off at and there truck takes to sioux city and back to dm The steps involves are a little detailed, so do a google search on stripping chrome plating, and stripping nickle plating, and you will find many good hits detailing the process Then it's up to you to determine if you really want to give it a try I have done it myself, and had mixed results through the learning process, but it's been a while.
I'd like to fill most of them before taking the thing to the chrome shop for final plating Is there a more accepted method of filling pits (that is, larger ones than will be filled with the copper wash of the final plate.) doc. Removing primer from bumper and other chrome parts Discussion in ' the hokey ass message board ' started by riva b., dec 3, 2011. A good plating shop would never, ever put a piece in their tanks that still had any trace of rust on it, it'll ruin the plating chemicals
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