Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Body, interior, paint, chrome, and cosmetic items => Topic started by: Jkalplus1 on September 04, 2014, 23:48:38
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Anyone tried this? I am thinking all the little trim pieces that we almost never touch but that are highly visible. Fresh air vent louvers? Small dash moldings? Jay Leno seemed impressed on YouTube.
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If you want to devalue your car go ahead and use it.
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Seems like that is a product that unscrupulous people would use when they want to sell a car fast and not put a lot of time into it.
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Cosmichrome is a solid process that has been around for some years, and it isn't cheap. I would suspect that any "unscrupulous use" would be very small indeed. GM has been using it for a long time, and other firms use it when real chrome cannot be used such as on a model where the underlying substrate cannot be put into a plating bath--something such as wood. I've seen it applied to a variety of interesting objects, some as mundane as Lego bricks for kids.
The vent louvers would be an excellent place to use this, and if I ever had to take apart these contraption again, I would rechrome with Cosmichrome. Nobody I talked to wanted to touch the louvers (too delicate and irreplaceable) and thus spray on would be a worthy consideration--not a devaluation IMHO
Now, bumpers? That's another story... :D
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I always dismantle the louvred on full restos. I have occasionally used vacuum deposition for light reflectors but I have never heard is "cosmichrome".
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Stick, Cosmichrome is a tradename process, the firm is Canadian. www.Cosmichrome.com
I've seen the results and they look precisely like vacuum deposition. I believe they license it to trained applicators; you just can't go and buy it in a can. There are others now, that have similar processes and they have their own names...