On 2/11/07, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:19:47PM +0900, David Savage wrote: > > On 2/11/07, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2007, at 3:44 PM, David Savage wrote: > > > > > > > I know a guy who does plastic chroming. Maybe I should take the cape & > > > > get it chromed. > > > > > > It'd probably flake off and get everywhere. > > > > Most likely. > > Not if it's done properly. The usual way to do this is vacuum > deposition of a thin layer of aluminium, followed up by a coat > of protective covering (such as a polyurethane varnish). > > That's how most of the "chrome" switches, dial surrounds, etc. > on cars are done, as well as plastic parts for die-cast models. > It's a line-of-sight process, so it's relatively straightforward > to coat the outside of a lens cap without getting anything on > the inside (and, in any cast, you could stick it onto a piece > of sticky tape). > > My father used to work for a company that provided paints and > varnishes to Ford, so they had a small vacuum deposition rig > in their lab. I used to give him parts from my plastic kits > (bumpers, radiator grills, wing mirrors, etc.) to be treated.
The guy I know has a fishing lure manufacturing factory & he has one of these "chroming" machines to make the shiny lures. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
