A guide to re-chrome plastic car parts.

Chrometech at Castle Hill, the people doing the re-chroming of some parts for a "41 60 coupe.Our customer previously used Chrometech, for electroplating the very badly pitted headlight trim strips and wiper towers on his '39 and they still look great some 5 years later.Not a mark, blemish or pit on the pieces.

Suffice to say Chrometech can re-chrome just about anything. There are somethings we don't chrome-plate , pieces that are in too poor condition even for Walter's magic skills.

Our process is very labour intensive. Depending on condition we have to soak the dashes or other parts in solvent to remove the grease.It may need a highfill. After highfill we need to sand back again. Then dashes need to be taped up in the rear and electrodes are inserted. Now it goes into the spray room and a conductive paint is applied. Tape will need to be removed, electrodes are connected for subsequent electroplating.After an 8 hour electroplating process in the copper, the dash gets rinsed and then nickel plated for an hour. Now it gets rinsed and then chrome-plated. We only leave parts in the chrome tank for 5 minutes, rinse and dry. The wires are cut off and the job is ready.

Re-chroming spa nozzles and shower taps

We have a lot of customers frantically looking to re-chrome either spa nozzles or taps. As you know we not only bronze baby shoes but bronze, chrome-plate, nickel -plate any materials such as plastic, fibreglass, wax, wool, and anything that is NOT METAL.

Below is an e-mail from a customer: Hi I have searched Australia for replacement cover plates and nozzles for our spa jets and they don't make them anymore and no one has any chrome look ones. They are plastic but look like they have been coated in a gold (look?) finish. I can send some photos to see if you are able to re-chrome these. We want to sell the house and are desperate to have these match all the other fittings in the bathroom. I have 12 of these 40mm cover plates and 12 x 10mm nozzles that fit inside the cover plates. If you could re-chrome these, how much roughly do you think they will cost.

Best regards S.I

Did you know that we also cater for bathroom renovators who want their plastic taps and fittings re-chromed.
A big part of our business is to chrome-plate plastic and fibreglass dashboards, grills, mirrors, door handles and anything that is NOT metal
One of our customers inquired if we can bronze a blade of grass. The grass was where he met his fiancee 1o years ago.
Nothing surprises us anymore, but the imagination certainly went wild at exactly why people want things chrome plated..
We bronzed wedding lingerie,lace on wedding dresses, body parts and even covered dim sums in 24 k gold. As well as helping artists with sculptures we assist people who want to preserve and protect their keepsakes and heirlooms to turn them into keepsakes. It's all about eternalising a moment in time.
The Bronzing Studio has also restored and covered objects tied to people leaving Earth, including a pair of sunglasses owned by Elvis Presley, but now the property of a collector of Elvis memorabilia. We also silverplated a rose from Elvis's casket.
People have asked to electroplate half-eaten hamburgers, doughnuts, computer games, jeans and dog collars. A director from the crematorium asked us if we could bronze a chicken leg, in an investigation into whether human bodies will be able to be preserved
in the future. Technically we could preserve a human body, but it is morbid and imagine the licences you'd need.

Chroming|Chrome Plating

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