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what best simulates chrome?
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Got some sugino caps that I want to rescue
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Machine Polishing em
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Quote from: Jamroll on June 07, 2012, 12:48 PM
Machine Polishing em
They are plastic, coated with a chrome finish which is now less than perfect I need to recoat them with a paint of some kind. I think machine polishing would melt the plastic, they are beyond that anyhow.
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i tried the chrome spray on a set of mine that looked ok.
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search you tube - i did see some good chrome spray paints that will do just the job + help how to do right
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Modern chrome paints are pretty decent now also
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June 07, 2012, 03:24 PM »
You can buy rolls of very thin aluminium that can be heated slightly to form shapes, then cut off the excess. I have used it many times.
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forget the chrome spray, unless you know exactly what you are doing.... the tin foil trick sounds the best option to me....
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June 10, 2012, 08:46 PM »
try a model shop for foil they use on scale airplanes you use an iron to fix it
ive used it on a frame
it does look much better then this pic shows
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Plasti kote do a chrome spray ? anybody tried it
The original Sugino are only coated , thats why they're always worn on relatively lightly used ones
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to get the correct chrome finish with chrome spray it has to be applied over a very high gloss black finish, i've tried it before and its shite.... but thats part in me being heavy handed and blond!
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