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I saw this on a 63 & it looked terrible because it was
peeling in several spots. My question also was why?
John
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:33
PM
Subject: Re: IML: flash chromed
stainless
I thought I was pretty well informed after 55 years of playing
with old
cars, but this is the first time I have heard of anyone chrome
plating
stainless! I only have one question:
Why?
Properly buffed stainless is beautiful - perhaps the color is
subtly
different, but I sure never noticed it.
Stainless trim never
develops "pits", so if your parts are pitted, I think
they are not
stainless, at least not the type of stainless I've ever
come
across.
If they are pot metal, I agree, they must be stripped
of the old chrome
before they can be repaired. This is a very
expensive process (the pit
repair I mean) but there are shops that
specialize in this. I don't think
it is practical to "buff off"
chrome - I'll bet a buck that the piece melts
before all the chrome is gone
- that stuff is hard as the hubs of hell! The
proper way to remove
chrome is in a plater's bath, running backwards of
course.
Dick
Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rog & Jan van Hoy"
<vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
<mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:
Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: IML: flash chromed
stainless
> I'd appreciate some feedback on this factory process
and
> what you've done out there to restore the trim. Took my
'55
> [lesser] chrome plated stainless side trim to the plating
>
shop today for stripping, because on one side of the car the
> trim was
pitted. He says that only by dipping and removing
> the chrome can
the stainless be buffed out, but the
> stainless will be "yellow," not
"blue." He also said no one
> in the universe flash chromes
stainless any more, so one
> either has to find good virgin pieces or
strip and buff the
> stainless.
>
> I remember a thread a
while back about buffing stainless.
> According to this master plater
you either have to strip the
> chrome or buff it away.
>
>
Any one out there gone thru this problem? What cars used
> flash
chromed stainless and what used plain stainless?
>
> --Roger van
Hoy, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '42 DeSoto, '66
> Plymouth, '81 Imperial,
Washougal, WA
>
>
>
>
>
>
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