IML: Looking for a potmetal repair shop in the New York area

["tdcox" <tdcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom

Do you think the part could chrome plated after it received the "coating"
mentioned below.  If this were possible, it would make the chrome plating of
badly scarred and pitted pot metal much easier to plate.

Any thoughts?

Tom Cox

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Robert,
I don't know if you'll be interested in this or not but I recently visited 
a fellow in PA who does what he refers to as 'metallization'.  His website 
is attached below.  Anyway, he takes the piece down to base metal, fills in 
the pits and imperfections, then has this coating process that he uses to 
get a high gloss chrome like finish.  I was a little skeptical at first but 
when I saw what he was doing and what the finished piece looks like, I'm 
pretty well convinced. The drawback is that it is a coating and not a 
plating therefore the finish is softer.  For the Flitesweep reflector, this 
process might be a better alternative than traditional metal 
restoration/plating.  I'm going to have a few pieces coated by him in the 
fall...including the piece you want to have done.  Let me know what you 
think.  The finished piece looks identical to chrome plating.
Tom

http://www.coatofchrome.com/default.php
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From: "Rob van der Es" <r.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: IML: Looking for a potmetal repair shop in the New York area


> Hi fellow imperialists!
>
> I am trying to restore a trunklid reflector for my 1960 Imperial, my fried
> and fellow IML member Charles Rex (who also ownes a 1960 Imp) has obtained
> a reflector from Lowell but this one is heavily pitted.
>
> This became visible after removing the old chrome plating.
> What I am looking for now is a shop that can repair the pinnholes and some
> craters in the potmetal.
> After the repair it can be copper plated and rechromed by any plating
> company, but the problem is that not many know how to repair pot metal..
>
> Does anyone know a good repair shop in the New York area that can handle
> potmetal (zamac) ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Robert van der Es
>
>
>
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