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Hey gang!! I have been off the list for a while and I am glad to be back. I had my engine tin professionally chromed about 5 years ago. It's installed in our 65 Notch and I have it on a stock 1600 engine with stock exhaust including upper heat exchangers and have had no problems with the engine running hot. It looks great and I have had no problems with it rusting. As a matter of fact the local company that plated them told me that if I ever had problems with rust I could bring them back and they would replate them free. As Jim said this was not all that cheap to get done. I only had the "Tin" and balance pipe plated and not the fan housings at a cost of $350. You will also need to do a lot of cleaning prior to sending in the parts to be plated or find a really good set of tin with no pits or rust. The longer the guy has to buff the parts the more it will cost. All parts need to be buffed to an exceptionally smooth surface before plating and parts that are covered in grease or rust are usually turned away or you will be given such high price it won't be cost effective to have them plated. While I like the chrome tin, if I had it to do over again I don't know that I would spend that kind of money on chrome engine tin again. Dana Hall http://users.ezwv.com/~jdhall/vw 64 Notch 65 Notch Sunroof 72 Ghia Convertable 77 Beetle 78 Bus 55 Porsche Speedster replica Jim Adney wrote: > 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. > > - > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/