I have always complained about the cost of re-chroming. After watching the staggering amount of labor required for a good finish, I will never complain again.
As an electrician I had to 'fix' power in a number of chroming shops and I have to say when you walked in the shop it took your breath away, screw environmentalists, you guys deserve a medal. It's a lot of work and time is money, this is what people NEED to understand, no one works for free. Also the more complex the shape as on a Jaguar MKII bumper it takes more time, YES I have a MKII that needs both bumpers re-chromed.
yes your are right , i am plumber and when we undoing the chalk of boilers ,we used acid and than it be came green of the copper oxide deluded in the acid , i remember days after i could taste the cupper in mine mouth , and i even used the acid to my proper experiences to lay a layer of cupper on iron with a 12 Volt battery , and it works very well , but yes , using a mask would be preferable i think , sorry for my English , i am Dutch speaking ;-)
I've got some chroming to do as part of a restoration project and this video has to be the best advert for a company I have ever seen. That's brilliant work.
The labour involved in this work is astounding! I would hate to have to do that hard work out five or more days a week lol. Well done everyone the results are astounding. I should hope that the car owner would be very appreciative of your work. Presumably the Bristol car was being restored, I hope the restoration is up to your standards. If it was then the car will be a wonder to behold!
Given the chemicals involved, it's evident why this craft is somewhat of a dying art. What incredible attention to detail and fine craftsmanship on display here.
An amazing job, very labour intense and a dying art! These guys keep the old vintage vehicle chrome in tip top condition. Let’s hope they keep it going for the next generation to learn!
An absolutely fantastic job, no two ways about it. However, when I saw the title for this video where it says "restore", I had my doubts. After watching the video, I would call it "re-chrome" or "re-plate" or something like it. Never the less, I am speechless!
Loved this video! Shows in detail the stages and don’t skip on very important in-between cleaning steps! I do some plating and polishing, this is truly top notch! First video without flaws or purposeful skipped steps! You guys deserve A+ Liked and subscribed! Didn’t know about cyanide copper to prepare for acid copper plating. Will dive into that subject! Thanks!
I also complained about the cost of chroming things but this amount of labor is tremendous and have a better understanding now and will keep my mouth shut when I get something chromed in the future. Thanks for showing us what goes on to have something plated~!
It is still possible to get good plating in Australia. But it's becoming more difficult. Just had my Atlantic redone and repaired. The results are superb. It should be noted that not everything can be rechromed especially if it's been reformed previously. The metal can simply get too thin. Great work here and very labour intensive.
@@ChromeandCarRestorationthat's Awesome! Ive lived in the area for the last 15 years. I can't seem to find any details, I'd be interested to know whether the building is still standing?
Wow incredible attention to detail, great job. Back when I started working in a crash shop as a teenager most cars on the road still had chrome bars etc. and we could order change over bars from a local shop for most models. We would take off the old bars and do any repairs they needed like welding cracks and removing dents and swap them over for freshly chromed ones they had in stock. I don’t think they were as meticulous with the prep though, I would sometimes see grinder marks in areas you wouldn’t easily see when it’s on the car. But they were doing hundreds of them and they weren’t for restorations, just everyday aussie cars that only needed to be as good as they came from the factory 😂
I find myself watching your video again. I’m polishing cast aluminium at the moment. All the final buffing techniques are top notch!! Great work to everyone
We had a chrome shop near us. I watched the process in person, but could not see some of the plating baths as the area required PPE, which they would not issue to customers. Your video shows the whole process, start to finish. Unbelievable amount of labor, and attention to detail. Very good work. Cheers!
I am so glad I got to see this video! Decades ago, I was told by an old timer who worked in a body shop that a re-chromed part was actually better than factory new. I always wondered about that until now. I am certain that factory new would never get the time and attention I just witnessed in this video. Beautiful work.
You don't realize. The Factory metal was smooth when stamped. Now they take 80 grit and take out the pits then they go to 120 to take out the grind marks. This company, with this process, will NEVER get you as smooth of a surface as factory. Yes this company pays a huge amount of time grinding out the pits. Just remember the original never had this. I have seen Chip Foose use a grinder way beyond the welds or imperfections. Chrome is like glass. Every scratch or imperfection he, or anyone, now has to be refilled, repolished and brought back to what the factory started with. Look at a stamped piece and at the least it will show some imperfections. Now take 80 grit and see it it helps that Mirror Shine. These guys show the best of the worst ways to show chrome. But just to compare straight across. If you showed all the imperfections across the same square footage... on the hood... of ANY car would you be happy with the chrome bumper finish they JUST showed on ANY show car?
Gosh this takes me back in time and nothing changed. My ole fella had an Electro Plating business in the 70s. I became a metal polisher at 14 yrs skived off school always getting him into trouble. Retired around 10 years ago . Good memorys cold mornings long days.
Me too. Started when I was 19 quit at 40. A tough job combining skills and strength. Watching this I could smell the plating shop and get the taste of the metal dust. :)
A few years back I was able to take a shop tour at Advance Chrome Plating in Nashville Tennessee. I have had a new respect for the work involved ever since. Respect to the chrome platers of the world. You keep our rides gleaming.🙏
I am in the process of restoring a 1968 Chevy El Camino SS 396. it has been a long painstaking process. I need to have the bumpers either replaced or rechromed replacement cost is around $300 each plus tax and shipping costs will probably be somewhere in the range of 400.00 each. after watching this video, I Have A New Perspective and respect for the chrome platers who are working out there. Amazing attention to detail with obviously many hours of Labor. not to mention the dangers of working around these chemicals. my hat is off to all of you professional platers. You are true Craftsman.
Fantastic job guys love watching your videos your brilliant at what you do 👍 i actually rang you today to get my clubs booked in for a refurb ive just bought some mizuno blades but the lady said your on 4 mnth waiting list 🥺 gonna call again shortly to get them booked in for then and look forward to day you finally get your hands on these clubs and get them looking like new 👍.
Is there no way to deposit metal onto the corroded piece to build up the thickness before all the grinding? That initial abrasion seems to take a lot of the base away.
Cause people aren’t being taught to have pride in their work or country and corporations are all about making every penny over quality and the government is constantly in the way of small businesses who normally put out quality work and enabling the corporations instead.
Possibly fate that I fell onto your Channel by accident, but you now have a new subscriber - Fantastic video and true artisan work! Will give you a call separately about my ‘68 Fiat 500 when we’re at the stage to re-chrome - can I assume you’d do door handles etc.? Keep up the great work JCHK
Are you still using cyanide baths? Here in germany the shops are less and less using cyanide based electrolytes and switching more to cyanide free electrolytes. As much as I always love to hate on our government and the EU, in this case i am glad that they push for a cyanide free galvanization process. Cyanide is nasty stuff, lang lasting poison and the coats that I have seen and measured were no different to the old ones made with cyanidic electrolytes. Respect for your high grinding and polishing skills! I would have never seen the high spot on the welds.... Greetings from Southern Germany
The quality of chrome in the USA has been declining for years as well as the number of shops doing the work. EPA regulations put many out of business due to improper disposal of contaminants into the groundwater and other poor business practices. Those that were able to overcome the burgeoning regs have too much volume i there shops, the quality of work suffers and wait times are ridiculous to get parts back. On top of that parts get lost, taken or sold out the back door leaving customers without their precious parts. The repop junk offered by aftermarket restoration retailers are only industrial plated and begin to rust once they are unwrapped. I have 14 sets of original MGTD bumpers and overriders that I want to have replated but can’t find a reliable shop to do the quality of work I demand for my concurs quality restorations. In my city of Sacramento Ca we used to have over 30 plate shops back in the 1970s we are now down to one triple plate shop and one industrial plate shop. The later also still does cad plating but even their cadmium work is suffering.
Yes, besides Sac I only know of 3 others in Cal and the in Bakersfield near me is alright but lacks in the preparation department. If you give them a quality prepared part they will give you an A- part back half 3/4 of the time.
I watched a show on our about Virginia show, not sure of the name, that showed in detail a shop in Northern Virginia that does plating services for all sorts of products. In trying to find them just now, I google mapped for shops in the state and around the state and counted over forty and more than I cared to count. I guess the east coast is a good place to find someone to get some chroming done.
I've always wanted to get into this kind of business. I like your explanation of the steps, just would like to know a little more about how long each step of plating is and why for each step. I'm going to start out small first though, just doing things for myself to gain experience before I get customers. Thank you.
Go for it!. You should try and get yourself a copy of the Canning Handbook on Electroplating (the older the edition the better). This will hold a wealth of information for you.
These days they put two-three year car restoration in 10 minutes videos. Its imposible to show all work. And nobody would watch it. So, mostly people think, oh its piece of cake, while restorers have to work with their heads and arms in place long long hours.
You guys rock...meticulous craftsmen. In can appreciate this because back around 1970, when all US cars had chrome bumpers, I was an insurance adjuster and after a car was 2-3 years old, all that was allowed on an insurance settlement were 'Re-chromed Bumpers. As I recall, those re-chromed bumpers were around $100.00~depending on size.....instead of 'new.' I will note the 'Re-chromers' back in those days were no where near as meticulous as you guys. Some of the 'Rechromes' were pretty rough.
I’ve got a bumper that’s had a hit at some point and needs some reshaping and welding to repair plus some of the chrome has already peeled off. Are jobs like this generally not worried about or can they still be fixed?
Excuse the stupid question… Why do you use acids at first instance if you are going to use polishing sand paper (from 4:00)? Can I just start from the polishing part? Thank you for your video.
I can see why chrome plating is so expensive. The technicians are extremely talented and the process is long and complex. Here in the US it is hard to find chrome plating companies because of environmental restrictions.
Wow wow wow looks fantastic lad’s amazing. You really do turn back the clock 😮😳😜😁👍brilliant process and superb video. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩yep you can certainly deserve 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ahh, nothing like the smell of plating in the morning. People wonder why its so expensive to chrome plate things. Lots of hard and dirty work going on right here! Great job guys!
Wow! That was impressive. Thanks for the comprehensive video. When I left school I was training to be a panel beater removing many rusty old chrome bumpers over the years. I have a lot more respect for them now.......
Amazing work! I loved watching the process! We are restoring a 1959 Nash Metropolitan...and just dropped off the bumpers for rechroming. The Flying Lady hood ornament will also be done. Have you ever restored one of those???
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I have always complained about the cost of re-chroming. After watching the staggering amount of labor required for a good finish, I will never complain again.
Thanks for the comment.
Yep. Ninety percent of a good chrome job is in the prep work. The chrome only looks as good as what is underneath it.
No pricing is too high for a set like those - now the real cost is restoring the rest of the car to match.
Sixpackdan, I was just thinking the exact same thing, WOW, I am very impressed ,
@@TheDrOnsberg Absolutely right. You cannot cover up poor prep with plating. It highlights any defects.
I never realized how much work was involved in rechroming a part. These guys are a dying breed.
Thanks
Literally. In the states, the epa is putting a hurting on chrome plating shops as well.
As an electrician I had to 'fix' power in a number of chroming shops and I have to say when you walked in the shop it took your breath away, screw environmentalists, you guys deserve a medal.
It's a lot of work and time is money, this is what people NEED to understand, no one works for free.
Also the more complex the shape as on a Jaguar MKII bumper it takes more time, YES I have a MKII that needs both bumpers re-chromed.
So do I AND I AM thinking how much it will cost me? Needs all crome doing DOH!
yes your are right , i am plumber and when we undoing the chalk of boilers ,we used acid and than it be came green of the copper oxide deluded in the acid , i remember days after i could taste the cupper in mine mouth , and i even used the acid to my proper experiences to lay a layer of cupper on iron with a 12 Volt battery , and it works very well , but yes , using a mask would be preferable i think , sorry for my English , i am Dutch speaking ;-)
Absolutely incredible work there. Thanks for taking to time to show us!
Many thaNKS
Thanks for showing us the amount of work required to get the pieces looking so beautiful. Great Job!
Happy you enjoyed it
I've got some chroming to do as part of a restoration project and this video has to be the best advert for a company I have ever seen. That's brilliant work.
Wow, thanks! I hope we are able to help you out with it.
that was some of the most satisfying 30 minutes I've had...brilliant...you actually made me order new coarse and fine belts 😂
The labour involved in this work is astounding! I would hate to have to do that hard work out five or more days a week lol. Well done everyone the results are astounding. I should hope that the car owner would be very appreciative of your work. Presumably the Bristol car was being restored, I hope the restoration is up to your standards. If it was then the car will be a wonder to behold!
Thanks for the comments
This is a true art, this is awesome. Now I have a huge respect for these guys. It looks absolutely beautiful
Thank you very much!
Given the chemicals involved, it's evident why this craft is somewhat of a dying art. What incredible attention to detail and fine craftsmanship on display here.
Thanks for the comment
An amazing job, very labour intense and a dying art! These guys keep the old vintage vehicle chrome in tip top condition. Let’s hope they keep it going for the next generation to learn!
Gotta have some youngsters interested in it to keep it going. Very hard to find.
Imagine if this shop was in the U.S. The feds at OSHA, EPA and NIOSH would rain down on this perishing art with all the power if Hunter Biden.
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Wow just an incredible amount of work and time and equipment to restore these chrome bumpers and items. Much respect. Great video.
Much appreciated!
I never knew how much work goes into this art form! Enjoyed the video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I had no idea what it takes to achieve the beautiful finish of chrome . Great video!
Glad you liked it!
Better than new, good for another 1000 years! Amazing job!
Thanks
It's amazing how someone came up with this process
Top notch work. No mot was harmed in the course of this video...
This was an amazing work. Well done guys. I had no idea it is so intensive and complex.
Wow.... I never had any idea there were that many steps in restoring chrome. Amazing job...Great video..
I was thinking the same thing
Well they started out with a very bad bumper. How long do you look for a better bumper or pay the price on the bad one?🤔
An absolutely fantastic job, no two ways about it. However, when I saw the title for this video where it says "restore", I had my doubts. After watching the video, I would call it "re-chrome" or "re-plate" or something like it. Never the less, I am speechless!
wow this was very interesting.
Greetings from germany.
Thank you very much!
whaaw , it's unbelievable how shiny they came out , good job 👌
Thank you! 😊
Now I know why chromeplating is so expensive......excellent work and video.
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing. It's expensive but it's a lot of work.
Now i understand that exorbitant prices that we paid for chrome.
Thanks. I was hoping the video would show the huge amount of work needed.
Wow, simply excellent job, thanks for sharing
Loved this video! Shows in detail the stages and don’t skip on very important in-between cleaning steps!
I do some plating and polishing, this is truly top notch! First video without flaws or purposeful skipped steps!
You guys deserve A+
Liked and subscribed!
Didn’t know about cyanide copper to prepare for acid copper plating. Will dive into that subject!
Thanks!
Many thanks
I also complained about the cost of chroming things but this amount of labor is tremendous and have a better understanding now and will keep my mouth shut when I get something chromed in the future. Thanks for showing us what goes on to have something plated~!
True craftsmen. Cheers from Sunny South Florida.
It is still possible to get good plating in Australia. But it's becoming more difficult. Just had my Atlantic redone and repaired. The results are superb. It should be noted that not everything can be rechromed especially if it's been reformed previously. The metal can simply get too thin. Great work here and very labour intensive.
Good to hear it. My dad worked in plating in Australia at the Moonee Ponds Plating Co in the 60's (he was a £10 pom).
yes there are still a couple of places in Melbourne
@@ChromeandCarRestorationthat's Awesome! Ive lived in the area for the last 15 years. I can't seem to find any details, I'd be interested to know whether the building is still standing?
This was beyond impressive!!
Many thanks
Wow incredible attention to detail, great job.
Back when I started working in a crash shop as a teenager most cars on the road still had chrome bars etc. and we could order change over bars from a local shop for most models. We would take off the old bars and do any repairs they needed like welding cracks and removing dents and swap them over for freshly chromed ones they had in stock. I don’t think they were as meticulous with the prep though, I would sometimes see grinder marks in areas you wouldn’t easily see when it’s on the car. But they were doing hundreds of them and they weren’t for restorations, just everyday aussie cars that only needed to be as good as they came from the factory 😂
I worked at a chrome shop late 60’s Crazy amount of work to make it nice
And really stinks of chemicals!
So much hard work! Great!
Damn such a night and day change.... awesome... thanks for sharing
Hi. New video going up in about half an hour if you want to see amother transformation.
Anyone else notice it was rolling at 100 amps when he put the bumper in the second copper bath? THEN turned it up. Wild
Yes. Plating is low DC voltage, high ampage.
Awesome job 👏 👍🏿 🙌
Thank you! 😊
Amazing to see the restoration looks amazing 👏
Thank you very much!
An amazing process, bravo guys!!
Thanks
You're an artist cause it looked better already just after one sanding
Very nice professional job.
God bless all of you,you are doing amazing work.
Thanks from heart.
Dr Adel mansi
Our pleasure!
Artistry in action
Many thanks
The result is amazing ! Waow
Thank you for sharing.
My pleaseure.
I find myself watching your video again.
I’m polishing cast aluminium at the moment.
All the final buffing techniques are top notch!!
Great work to everyone
Fantastic!
Haha… watching again to let the basic principles sink in.
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We had a chrome shop near us. I watched the process in person, but could not see some of the plating baths as the area required PPE, which they would not issue to customers. Your video shows the whole process, start to finish. Unbelievable amount of labor, and attention to detail. Very good work. Cheers!
Thanks
That copper plate looks awesome to I would leave it like that
Copper looks great
Brilliant job nice
Is there a way to fill the pits instead of thinning the original part?
Great Video, thanks! No wonder re-chroming costs so much!
Thanks.
Good Job .... Thanks for the interesting video
I am so glad I got to see this video! Decades ago, I was told by an old timer who worked in a body shop that a re-chromed part was actually better than factory new. I always wondered about that until now.
I am certain that factory new would never get the time and attention I just witnessed in this video. Beautiful work.
Great point!
yes for shure , fully agreed
You don't realize. The Factory metal was smooth when stamped. Now they take 80 grit and take out the pits then they go to 120 to take out the grind marks. This company, with this process, will NEVER get you as smooth of a surface as factory. Yes this company pays a huge amount of time grinding out the pits. Just remember the original never had this. I have seen Chip Foose use a grinder way beyond the welds or imperfections. Chrome is like glass. Every scratch or imperfection he, or anyone, now has to be refilled, repolished and brought back to what the factory started with. Look at a stamped piece and at the least it will show some imperfections. Now take 80 grit and see it it helps that Mirror Shine. These guys show the best of the worst ways to show chrome. But just to compare straight across. If you showed all the imperfections across the same square footage... on the hood... of ANY car would you be happy with the chrome bumper finish they JUST showed on ANY show car?
Wow watching that process was really kool...Good job guy's.
Amazing work.
Glad you think so!
Gosh this takes me back in time and nothing changed. My ole fella had an Electro Plating business in the 70s. I became a metal polisher at 14 yrs skived off school always getting him into trouble. Retired around 10 years ago . Good memorys cold mornings long days.
Me too. Started when I was 19 quit at 40. A tough job combining skills and strength. Watching this I could smell the plating shop and get the taste of the metal dust. :)
Not many of us polishers and platers left now.
Nice job❤
Thanks 😄
A really informative video , Thank you . Unfortunately here in my area they do only nickel then chrome .
Sorry to hear that
A few years back I was able to take a shop tour at Advance Chrome Plating in Nashville Tennessee. I have had a new respect for the work involved ever since. Respect to the chrome platers of the world. You keep our rides gleaming.🙏
Very cool!
I am in the process of restoring a 1968 Chevy El Camino SS 396. it has been a long painstaking process. I need to have the bumpers either replaced or rechromed replacement cost is around $300 each plus tax and shipping costs will probably be somewhere in the range of 400.00 each. after watching this video, I Have A New Perspective and respect for the chrome platers who are working out there. Amazing attention to detail with obviously many hours of Labor. not to mention the dangers of working around these chemicals. my hat is off to all of you professional platers. You are true Craftsman.
For some reason i started thinking of having copper plated bumpers on my car. I think it would look kinda cool with other copper plated accesories
Copper looks great. In the future I have a hot rod project that will be having copper on it.
Welldone &wonderful ..
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Thank you, a very informative video, so labour intensive and so many different steps. Amazing work, congratulations 👍
Our pleasure!
Fantastic job guys love watching your videos your brilliant at what you do 👍 i actually rang you today to get my clubs booked in for a refurb ive just bought some mizuno blades but the lady said your on 4 mnth waiting list 🥺 gonna call again shortly to get them booked in for then and look forward to day you finally get your hands on these clubs and get them looking like new 👍.
I’m impressed with your job. Can you make a video what is exactly in tanks and how they work. 👍🏻👍🏻
awesome... i have a w111 coupe 1962.... must have that done on my bumpers too...
Nice work, keep it up👍
Thanks, will do!
Is there no way to deposit metal onto the corroded piece to build up the thickness before all the grinding? That initial abrasion seems to take a lot of the base away.
Superb! Unfortunately, in most cases, this is not the quality of plating we are seeing here in the States.
Sorry to hear that
Not since the democrats had it banned and the fake global warming not cases came out
@@JLMEALER2000 Though your logic is skewed, I agree.
Cause people aren’t being taught to have pride in their work or country and corporations are all about making every penny over quality and the government is constantly in the way of small businesses who normally put out quality work and enabling the corporations instead.
Scotty Kilmer music in the background 😂
Scotty Kilmer is good to watch
My god, what a lot of work, I hate to even ask what such a process would cost?
Thank, you for you're video.
Our pleasure!
Possibly fate that I fell onto your Channel by accident, but you now have a new subscriber - Fantastic video and true artisan work!
Will give you a call separately about my ‘68 Fiat 500 when we’re at the stage to re-chrome - can I assume you’d do door handles etc.?
Keep up the great work
JCHK
so a good way is to be sick over them lol lol ... good video my friend
That would remove the rust, but you would have to be very sick.
nice job on video too
Art work.
Thanks
very nice video. if it wasnt for the totaly unnessesary music, it was perfect. its the best when you can hear all the machines and other stuff.
Thank you very much!
Are you still using cyanide baths?
Here in germany the shops are less and less using cyanide based electrolytes and switching more to cyanide free electrolytes.
As much as I always love to hate on our government and the EU, in this case i am glad that they push for a cyanide free galvanization process.
Cyanide is nasty stuff, lang lasting poison and the coats that I have seen and measured were no different to the old ones made with cyanidic electrolytes.
Respect for your high grinding and polishing skills! I would have never seen the high spot on the welds....
Greetings from Southern Germany
I built and ran a very sucessful chrime polishing business in the early 70s. This is all standard proceedure in the plating business. Dandahermit.
Eres un artista
This is a highly skilled trade that requires vast knowledge of electroplating and deft hands to take out all the pitting.
if an older bumper is bent, how would someone go about fixing the bent or unshapely parts before replating it?
The quality of chrome in the USA has been declining for years as well as the number of shops doing the work. EPA regulations put many out of business due to improper disposal of contaminants into the groundwater and other poor business practices. Those that were able to overcome the burgeoning regs have too much volume i there shops, the quality of work suffers and wait times are ridiculous to get parts back. On top of that parts get lost, taken or sold out the back door leaving customers without their precious parts. The repop junk offered by aftermarket restoration retailers are only industrial plated and begin to rust once they are unwrapped. I have 14 sets of original MGTD bumpers and overriders that I want to have replated but can’t find a reliable shop to do the quality of work I demand for my concurs quality restorations. In my city of Sacramento Ca we used to have over 30 plate shops back in the 1970s we are now down to one triple plate shop and one industrial plate shop. The later also still does cad plating but even their cadmium work is suffering.
AIH Dubuque Iowa Expensive but the best In the country
Thats California for ya
In Virginia here and I was just admiring the amount of old cars with lots of chrome and some brand new trucks with amazingly shiny chrome rims.
Yes, besides Sac I only know of 3 others in Cal and the in Bakersfield near me is alright but lacks in the preparation department. If you give them a quality prepared part they will give you an A- part back half 3/4 of the time.
I watched a show on our about Virginia show, not sure of the name, that showed in detail a shop in Northern Virginia that does plating services for all sorts of products.
In trying to find them just now, I google mapped for shops in the state and around the state and counted over forty and more than I cared to count.
I guess the east coast is a good place to find someone to get some chroming done.
I've always wanted to get into this kind of business. I like your explanation of the steps, just would like to know a little more about how long each step of plating is and why for each step. I'm going to start out small first though, just doing things for myself to gain experience before I get customers. Thank you.
Go for it!. You should try and get yourself a copy of the Canning Handbook on Electroplating (the older the edition the better). This will hold a wealth of information for you.
Lol impossible, don't bother
These days they put two-three year car restoration in 10 minutes videos. Its imposible to show all work. And nobody would watch it. So, mostly people think, oh its piece of cake, while restorers have to work with their heads and arms in place long long hours.
You are right. That is why I try to show as much detail of the process as possible so folks see how it is done.
this must be very expensive,,.. But very nice work. Hats down
Thanks
Geweldig !!!
Why don’t they use a plasma disposition chamber to plate with ???
Haha. Nice one!
You guys rock...meticulous craftsmen. In can appreciate this because back around 1970, when all US cars had chrome bumpers, I was an insurance adjuster and after a car was 2-3 years old, all that was allowed on an insurance settlement were 'Re-chromed Bumpers.
As I recall, those re-chromed bumpers were around $100.00~depending on size.....instead of 'new.'
I will note the 'Re-chromers' back in those days were no where near as meticulous as you guys. Some of the 'Rechromes' were pretty rough.
Yes, was much the same here. Chroming is a dying art
The copper was beautiful too. Maybe a clear coat over the copper and leave like that.
Fantastique 😮💪👍👋🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵
Thanks
I’ve got a bumper that’s had a hit at some point and needs some reshaping and welding to repair plus some of the chrome has already peeled off. Are jobs like this generally not worried about or can they still be fixed?
They can be fixed
Quality work mate , nice to see there some of you still around
Excuse the stupid question… Why do you use acids at first instance if you are going to use polishing sand paper (from 4:00)? Can I just start from the polishing part? Thank you for your video.
The rust needs removing. Grinding will not do as it will not clean the back and also the rust kills the abrasives so would use a lot more materials
I miss chrome bumpers..
Agreed. It gave cars a touch of class.
I can see why chrome plating is so expensive. The technicians are extremely talented and the process is long and complex. Here in the US it is hard to find chrome plating companies because of environmental restrictions.
Same problem here
20:50 So the copper is basically acting as a body filler?
Sort of
I had an idea of how it was done but never this in depth. So glad that the Midlands continues to keep these trades and skills alive.
Thanks
Wow wow wow looks fantastic lad’s amazing. You really do turn back the clock 😮😳😜😁👍brilliant process and superb video. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩yep you can certainly deserve 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
All that hard work how much for a new bumper😊 ??
A lot if they make them
Ahh, nothing like the smell of plating in the morning. People wonder why its so expensive to chrome plate things. Lots of hard and dirty work going on right here! Great job guys!
Wow! That was impressive. Thanks for the comprehensive video. When I left school I was training to be a panel beater removing many rusty old chrome bumpers over the years. I have a lot more respect for them now.......
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Amazing work! I loved watching the process! We are restoring a 1959 Nash Metropolitan...and just dropped off the bumpers for rechroming. The Flying Lady hood ornament will also be done. Have you ever restored one of those???
Yes. Have done a few. A customer turned up in his a couple of years ago. Lovely little cars.