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Post by stevegbr on Jan 25, 2015 20:27:04 GMT
just found these on a auction site, he says he has had them powder coated chrome. question is, anybody used this process, and is it any good?  |
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Post by jonnyboy on Jan 25, 2015 20:33:04 GMT
I have never heard of it? perhaps its just grey finish?
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Post by rgdavid on Jan 25, 2015 20:40:54 GMT
depends what the preparation was underneath.
even shot blasted chrome is hard to stick to.
ideally acid dechroming plus shot blasting would be thing,
this false chrome is a plastic coating and probaly the only thing holding it on is because it is an all round "skin".
brake the skin and it will start to peel off,
i made the mistake on a grasstrack frame by just beadblasting,
coating stayed on for about 2 years before the sleeping rust peeled it off.
you would have thought that something that was blasted and coated wouldn't rust,
it only takes one chip^in the skin and the rust process start.....grrrrrrr
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 20:41:00 GMT
Fifty shades of Grey?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 20:50:12 GMT
These would make the bike look like a very bad Airfix kit IMO....
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Post by scott on Jan 25, 2015 22:57:57 GMT
did Loz not use the chrome effect powder coating on his engine cases, looked like they were polished?
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Post by jonnyboy on Jan 25, 2015 23:56:22 GMT
Yes i thought someone had used the stuff before! i wonder how they stood up to the test of time?
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Post by greybeard on Jan 26, 2015 0:08:42 GMT
Where is our Loz these days?
Been very quiet of late...........
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Post by stevegbr on Jan 26, 2015 0:15:00 GMT
last online a 11 hours ago mate.
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Post by scania on Jan 26, 2015 3:39:34 GMT
In my school days we travelled on old Vanhool and Bedford school buses which had iron framed seats dipped in a thick grey powder coat. A few of them had a chrome dip over the grey dip. They stood up very well to wear and tear but of course they were indoors out of the weather. The only ones that failed were the seats at the back of the bus where the powder coating could not stand up to the young guys with penknives who used to pare it off in lumps and throw pieces of it up the bus into the hair of the pretty girls or at the bald head of the not so pretty bus driver who we called Baldy, little did I know I would be balder than him by the time I was half his age!
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Post by jonnyboy on Jan 27, 2015 21:11:08 GMT
That is sods law mate, Ha ha!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 22:48:00 GMT
I don't think it was Loz who used PowerCoat on the casings....
Was it not the guy who has recently come back - blue SD.....oh hang on a minute.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2015 17:02:17 GMT
80's Alan......... Yes, goddim.  |
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