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| posted on July 7th, 2003 at 09:01 PM |
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opinions please (tried the paint forum to no avail)
opinions please
beetle is now offically chrome free
i was considering painting doorhandles &
f/glass r/boards the same colour as body. (guard red)
i have no idea how that would look, has anyone seen that before?
any other comments ?
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| posted on July 7th, 2003 at 09:17 PM |
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Mate did his Gaurds red, black handles and so on breaks it up okay, but as for colour coding, dunno.. |
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| posted on July 8th, 2003 at 10:49 AM |
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Bug-eyes,
Send me a pic and I'll show you...
5PL1T
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| posted on July 8th, 2003 at 10:57 AM |
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mate, did you use something to remove the chrome from the parts? If so I am interested to know how. I have a guards red porsche-looking kitcar and
things like window surrounds and doorhandles have been painted black over chrome and after 10 years or so (I don't know when it started to
happen) it's all flaked off. I'd like to do it properly when it's gets a new paint job soon. Appreciate it if you have done this
already and could tell me how.
David
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| posted on July 8th, 2003 at 11:05 AM |
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Painting over chrome :
You need to scuff the 'shine' of the chrome first using 400 grit wet . Then etch primer it>primer>paint.
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| posted on July 8th, 2003 at 11:51 AM |
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Over here in the west we get this cool program on our access TV station called cruzen on monday nights at 8:30 for other WAers. A couple of weeks ago
the went thru this at a cromers.
Aparently the best place to get crome removed is were you get it. All they do is dip your parts in there cleaning solusions and remove the existing
crome. As they would if you were geting something re-cromed. But they then dont crome the base metal just spray it with an etch primer.
Apparently this process is realy cheap as its the crome that costs the $'s.
So go ask ya local cromer and go from there.
Hope this helps Nige:thumb
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| posted on July 8th, 2003 at 12:06 PM |
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Thanks guys. shall do. Looks pretty crap right now but so too does the rest of the paint work so I'll lay the bug up for a few months and do it
all. I'd always wondered about that. I presumed it could be removed if it could be put on.
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| posted on July 9th, 2003 at 09:39 AM |
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dechroming the door handles cost me 10 bucks
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