Plastic Repair Books and Tips I was debating about restoring the chrome edging on my new floor console and looked around the web for other tips as well. I found this excellent page on repairing and identifying plastics for automotive use. The Left Hand menu has a section called documents (PDFs) that are well-written and free to download. There's also some How-To Videos near the bottom of that same menu. https://www.urethanesupply.com/v4n1.php The tips on this same page deal with refinishing chrome finishes on plastics.
Here's the whole backissue index to those plastic repair pointers: https://www.urethanesupply.com/backissues.php The latest issue (#24): https://www.urethanesupply.com/latestissue.php
i found this while looking for something completely unrelated. http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/index.html
East Germans developed a fish scale blue paint which actually used ground up fish scales, to get a metal flake like character. This guy is a patent attorney. No wonder, he can afford hundreds of classic cars:
This good info, would love to rechrome the out line of my dash - pictures is from a set that was for sale on email - that i shoud have bought errrr. as far as doing auto stuff in the house - lets just say it a push to just keep my wagon in the driveway.
I have found Hobby Lobby has a "Chrome" paint pen for models that does a excellent job for dash trim detail and any type of smaller trim pieces .....looks like chrome doesn't smear or smudge....kinda expensive about 7 bucks a pen but does a great job...use it on restoration details all the time.
