Hi All,
Thanks to the list members who have offered to loan lenses to get this
project rolling. I've contacted them both privately and hope to get started
soon.
The last operation needed to complete these parts will be the chroming
process, which I believe is referred to as "vacuum metallizing". The process
was used extensively on '60's and '70's interior trim, and some exterior
stuff. Anyone on the list have any experience with this, or any resources to
offer?
By the way, I'm up to my eyeballs in motor and transmission mounts -
primarily for the '62-'65 cars, and the "Floating Power" mounts for the
'59-'66 "C" body and Imperials - are there any other powertrain mounts for
the Forward Look cars I should be looking at while I'm at it? I really don't
want to make anything that is currently available - only parts that are no
longer available or outrageously expensive in NOS.
I plan to move on to different projects once I'm done with mounts, and
would like to get all the tooling built at once... there is some commonality
between a number of the mounts, and I can realize some cost savings doing all
the tooling at once. I do build all solid tooling for all the mounts, as
opposed to working with urethane or other soft temporary tooling (I may use
soft tooling for the Chevrons, though).
Thanks,
Steve Charette
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