From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: IML: 60 Imperial reflectors
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 08:37:54 -0700 (PDT)
Did you have a case of beer under your arm when you
walked in the door?
Was the machinist an older man - at or past retirement
age? This is a project for someone with some smarts, patience, and
experience.
Don't let that bad experience get you down. Keep
looking is my advice. I'm personally very leery of pot-metal repair.
You might be ahead buying a
drilling tool, grinding out the pits yourself, and then learning how to
melt brass into the divots and grind it down.
Thats "all" they do. Pain in the behind, if you ask
me. - Especially for an item that need only pass casual scrutiny.
One other suggestion: Use a wheel to grind the
surfaces flat/smooth. Perhaps on a Dremel tool or something. Fill
voids
with body filler, and go to an automotive paint place. They have
paints that are "almost" indistinguishable from chrome. You can use
your sand-blasted piece for this one.
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/8163/jaguar-xj0367.jpg
So much of what determines success in life is who you
have helping you. Most places within 100 KM of you won't be worth
talking to. You have to search.
Either way, best of luck in your mission - let us know
how things turn out and how painful the solution was?
--- Rob van der Es <r.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You are right about that Kenyon, the problem however
is that machinists are often to busy (at least in my area) to have
time to reproduce this disc.
I have tried several but they were all to busy to
even look at it.. And one shop ruined even my original disc when they
sandblasted it!
That is why I ordered another one from Lowell, and I
am now trying to find me a decent shop that can handle potmetal so
that this one won't be destroyed!!
Robert
Op Wo, 2 augustus, 2006 7:05 am, schreef Kenyon
Wills:
I think that the topic here is the disc that goes
under the emblem in the center of a flightsweep
decklid.
If so: Why pay $500,000 to have that reflector
repaired?
Seems to me that you could have a talented
machinist
reprduce a new one out of a steel blank and have
it turn out PERFECT and
ready to be plated.
I have not looked at mine lately, but those pot
metal
folks charge a fortune, and there's no assurance
that your restored
potmetal won't sprout more dimples in the future.
-Kenyon
--- Henry Hopkins <hhrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are you talking about the chrome pieces that
surround a red plastic reflector on the tips of
the rear fins??? If so,
when you get the chrome piece fixed, George
Laurie
Georgelaurie@xxxxxxxxxxx
makes reproduction reflectors that are superb.
If you are not talking about those pieces, excuse
me
for the intrusion.
Henry Hopkins, 60 cvt.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Regis Bodnar" <arbie104@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:05 PM
Subject: RE: IML: Looking for a potmetal repair
shop
in the New York area
Paul's Chrome in Evans City, PA can repair it
and
re-plate it...they are
not cheap, but guarantee everything for life and
use show quality
chrome.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rob van der Es
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 PM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: IML: Looking for a potmetal repair shop
in the New York area
Hi fellow imperialists!
I am trying to restore a trunklid reflector for
my
1960 Imperial, my
fried and fellow IML member Charles Rex (who
also
ownes a 1960 Imp) has
obtained a reflector from Lowell but this one is
heavily pitted.
This became visible after removing the old
chrome
plating.
What I am looking for now is a shop that can
repair the pinnholes and
some craters in the potmetal. After the repair
it
can be copper plated
and rechromed by any plating company, but the
problem is that not many
know how to repair pot metal..
Does anyone know a good repair shop in the New
York area that can handle
potmetal (zamac) ?
Thanks in advance,
Robert van der Es
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