My old boss uses a guy in chapolizod to rechrome bumpers of his vintage cars! Don't know about quality, but his not the sort of guy to go back if it was a sh1t job. Its a starting point for you anyway.....
Safeplating is the name
Gerry talk to wilkinson_neil@hotmail.com
Neil restores "vintage" burners and has one of the best collections in the world, he told me some horror stories about chroming, and i had also heard from a motor bike restorer that the chorming you get around here is mainly for bar stools and not very good, rusts easy.
pennies worth:
Chroming is one of the most tightly regulated processes in Europe due to high environmental impact of the process and the waste generated from it.
Its unlikely that there is a real chroming fractory in Ireland
Look to UK or Germany for the top chromers
Cheap chrome looks thin and plate like, while good chrome has a fluid look to it.
for the relatively low cost of posting frames, you may be better to seek out the UK chromers
Chrome is the cheesiest thing you can do to anything..I'd sooner wallpaper a bike..shame on you McInerney..the thoughts of chroming anything makes me sick..the natural state of machinery is to be either coated with grease, oil, muck or blood..being able to see anything shiny on a bike means its not being used properly..
You're off the Christmas and the "being saved after the Apocalypse list" when them Aliens come they'll be in chrome plated ships..you wait and see !!
You won't be saying that when these bikes are finished old man.. you'll be beggin' me for a go.. so you can practice your skids and cycling with no hands on the bars... you just wait and see..!!
Lads, thanks for all the advice.. I'm really after that 'fluid' looking chrome Rob mentioned.. one of the bikes is 35 years old so I want it to be the best it can be... I may consider chrome effect finish on some of the smaller parts though..
Eamonn.. nice one, will get in touch with your mate.. advice from someone with practical experience will be invaluable...
Whatever Gerry is doing it can't be as bad as what the MAD'ser Scrivo was doing, sanding the paint off the bike and spaying it with lacquer! I dream of having that much time on my hands.
I did that too... but in high school when I was 16.
The stuff that takes off the paint also took the skin off my hands... and then I sprayed the bike with a blue car paint, I actually might have a picture of that bike somewhere...
My old boss uses a guy in chapolizod to rechrome bumpers of his vintage cars! Don't know about quality, but his not the sort of guy to go back if it was a sh1t job. Its a starting point for you anyway.....
Safeplating is the name
Gerry talk to wilkinson_neil@hotmail.com
Neil restores "vintage" burners and has one of the best collections in the world, he told me some horror stories about chroming, and i had also heard from a motor bike restorer that the chorming you get around here is mainly for bar stools and not very good, rusts easy.
pennies worth:
Chroming is one of the most tightly regulated processes in Europe due to high environmental impact of the process and the waste generated from it.
Its unlikely that there is a real chroming fractory in Ireland
Look to UK or Germany for the top chromers
Cheap chrome looks thin and plate like, while good chrome has a fluid look to it.
for the relatively low cost of posting frames, you may be better to seek out the UK chromers
Chrome is the cheesiest thing you can do to anything..I'd sooner wallpaper a bike..shame on you McInerney..the thoughts of chroming anything makes me sick..the natural state of machinery is to be either coated with grease, oil, muck or blood..being able to see anything shiny on a bike means its not being used properly..
You're off the Christmas and the "being saved after the Apocalypse list" when them Aliens come they'll be in chrome plated ships..you wait and see !!
You won't be saying that when these bikes are finished old man.. you'll be beggin' me for a go.. so you can practice your skids and cycling with no hands on the bars... you just wait and see..!!
Lads, thanks for all the advice.. I'm really after that 'fluid' looking chrome Rob mentioned.. one of the bikes is 35 years old so I want it to be the best it can be... I may consider chrome effect finish on some of the smaller parts though..
Eamonn.. nice one, will get in touch with your mate.. advice from someone with practical experience will be invaluable...
Whatever Gerry is doing it can't be as bad as what the MAD'ser Scrivo was doing, sanding the paint off the bike and spaying it with lacquer! I dream of having that much time on my hands.
I did that too... but in high school when I was 16.
The stuff that takes off the paint also took the skin off my hands... and then I sprayed the bike with a blue car paint, I actually might have a picture of that bike somewhere...
