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Re: FW: [T3] Engine tin paint


On 20 Oct 2001, at 22:30, Freddie Lochner wrote:

> how about chroming? anyone have advice on chroming
> your tins?? any comments?

Done right would cost you more than the car. Done any other way 
would leave you wishing you had just painted them in a couple of 
years. Chroming is NOT just a matter of dipping the part in a bath 
and turning on the juice. Commercial items, like motorcycle 
exhaust pipes are done on dedicated lines where LOTS of money 
has been spent on shaped anodes to assure complete coverage of 
the pipe. You can't afford that kind of treatment.

Zinc plating on the other hand is relatively easy, but still won't get 
in all the places that the chrome also misses.

Just stick with a good paint.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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