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Front turn signal buckets, How was the finish applied to the interior? |
Pat Garvey |
May 15 2010, 07:59 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
i Recently acquired a pair of factory-new front turn signal buckets from Camp914. No doubt about it, they are sweet, but I expected something more brilliat than my 38 year old originals - no fault to Camp914. Just didn't realize that my originals were that preserved!
Regardless, my question is this - how was the "chrome" finish applied to the inside? It's obvious to me that it was some sort of spray compound (see the pic with the pronounced overspray). In 1978, I removed my original buckets for an impending respray of the body. At that time, as and old fart recalls, the exterior finish of the buckets looked like it needed refurbishing, so I sprayed them with light gray & clearcoated them (that also shows in the pics). I swear - it looks like the "chrome" finish was a spray-on. What did they use? Where can I get some? Look at the pics. The grubby exterior is original. The painted finish is my effort. Pat Attached image(s) |
Pat Garvey |
May 15 2010, 08:43 PM
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Interesting for contemporary time, but what did they do in 1970?
Pat |
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May 15 2010, 10:02 PM
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Tom_T |
May 15 2010, 11:56 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
Interesting for contemporary time, but what did they do in 1970? Pat Plastic hasn't changed.... ... except that IIRC - the buckets were pot metal not plastic & the chrome surface is direct to that, but then I'm an old fart too!!?? Pat, I can't say what they did in the day, but I've read several posts on here etc. that folks are using the Chrome Spray Paint (the super shiney one) available at Home Depot, Lowes, home improvement centers & local FLAPS to refinish both the plastic & metal type reflectors successfully. Just make sure it's the formula for whichever material you're painting. If you search here, there are pix of their resto work posted, but may be awhile back. Plz post pix of your results too meistro! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
Pat Garvey |
May 16 2010, 07:03 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
Interesting for contemporary time, but what did they do in 1970? Pat Plastic hasn't changed.... ... except that IIRC - the buckets were pot metal not plastic & the chrome surface is direct to that, but then I'm an old fart too!!?? Pat, I can't say what they did in the day, but I've read several posts on here etc. that folks are using the Chrome Spray Paint (the super shiney one) available at Home Depot, Lowes, home improvement centers & local FLAPS to refinish both the plastic & metal type reflectors successfully. Just make sure it's the formula for whichever material you're painting. If you search here, there are pix of their resto work posted, but may be awhile back. Plz post pix of your results too meistro! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Tom, You are correct - the buckets are pot metal. The chrome finish was directly SPRAYED to the parts, hence the overspray on the sides. These are factory new buckets. I have a new set of chrome metal vacuum metalized foglight grills. They are super sweet, but dainty. Nope - two totally different processes. Somehow, back in the early 70's, someone had a spray process for placing a chrome-like finish onto metal parts (suspect it was the same process used then on foglight grille, though most of them are plastic based). History here boys & girls - who knows the answer? |
Tom_T |
May 17 2010, 01:45 AM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
Interesting for contemporary time, but what did they do in 1970? Pat Plastic hasn't changed.... ... except that IIRC - the buckets were pot metal not plastic & the chrome surface is direct to that, but then I'm an old fart too!!?? Pat, I can't say what they did in the day, but I've read several posts on here etc. that folks are using the Chrome Spray Paint (the super shiney one) available at Home Depot, Lowes, home improvement centers & local FLAPS to refinish both the plastic & metal type reflectors successfully. Just make sure it's the formula for whichever material you're painting. If you search here, there are pix of their resto work posted, but may be awhile back. Plz post pix of your results too meistro! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Tom, You are correct - the buckets are pot metal. The chrome finish was directly SPRAYED to the parts, hence the overspray on the sides. These are factory new buckets. I have a new set of chrome metal vacuum metalized foglight grills. They are super sweet, but dainty. Nope - two totally different processes. Somehow, back in the early 70's, someone had a spray process for placing a chrome-like finish onto metal parts (suspect it was the same process used then on foglight grille, though most of them are plastic based). History here boys & girls - who knows the answer? The plasti-chrome process is/was as 70-914 put it back in the day - e.g.: for the horn or foglight grills when they changed to plastic. It's the same vacuum process that they used on those plastic models we used to build as kids in the 60's. The chrome on steel was the 3 step - copper, nickel, chrome electroplating tank process, even on fully plated pot metal, except the SS & aluminum bits were polished & alum. was anodized. I've also seen recently a new pro chrome spray process being advertised in Hemmings, sports & Exotics, Classic Cars, etc. which they say works on either metals or plastics, but can't speak to the longevity, nor whether it was used back then. However, since the TS buckets were not fully plated, they used a chrome spray paint from what I can tell on mine, which was similar to what we also used on model cars & planes back then. You can find the same stuff in today's formulations in the Rustoleum section where you get the red primer from the gas tank topic. I've used it to resto both metal & plastic parts on our 88 Westy & 85 BMW 325e, & plan to use it on the TS& taillight buckets' reflectors on my 914! So that should give you the history & the current day fix! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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