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Thread: Can you PC over chrome?

  1. 11-25-2014, 08:13 PM #1
    el34
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    Can you PC over chrome?

    I don't have chrome boolits. Does anyone know if you can PC something that's chrome plated and if it sticks well? It's a guitar part I have in mind, would like to make it black or maybe just get wild with the color.
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  2. 11-25-2014, 08:17 PM #2
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    http://forum.caswellplating.com/powd...e-plating.html

    Some of the stuff I read said it stuck better if you hit it with some 1000 grit first, just for a little bit of texture.
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  3. 11-25-2014, 08:24 PM #3
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    Thanks Beagle! Man you're fast, question is only 4 minutes old!
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    When I get curious, I better find out the answer fast or I forget what I was wanting to know.
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  5. 11-26-2014, 01:04 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beagle333 View Post
    When I get curious, I better find out the answer fast or I forget what I was wanting to know.
    I have the exact same problem. I think it's drain brammage. It affects my speeling tomesimes, I often repeat myself, and I often repeat myself. Worst of all, I occasionally forget to finish my own senten
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  6. 11-26-2014, 04:06 AM #6
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    You'd better get checked for lead poisoning.
    Start CASTING or get off the POT!
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    ........or alcohol poisoning!?!?!?!?!?!

    Beagle........let us know about your chrome coating experiment! I coat many other things other than just boolits but have not tired anything chromed.

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  8. 11-26-2014, 01:13 PM #8
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    It's el34's experiment. And my lead level is 2, and I don't drink! It must really be senility!
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    Well........at least one of us has SAP (senile alcohol poisoning)! HA.......ha.

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  10. 11-26-2014, 01:37 PM #10
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    If a good enamel paint won't stick, PC won't either. A lot of the hardware is not good chrome plating, or is a different material. Base metal is usually steel for the tremlo/bridge parts, brass elsewhere. Quality of plating on even cheap guitars has seems to improve. I'd just remove the plating, unless you are just tinkering.
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  11. 11-26-2014, 01:54 PM #11
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    Just for grins and what its I pcd some boolits that were already aloxed and some jwords- looked splotchy on the jwords and no.different than unlubed on the .45 boolits don't see why it wouldn't do chrome.
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