Look what I made

look very cool!!!

Can you make other? and sell it to me?

Tim: Looks awesome! I could use a couple for the '80 if you are thinking of makin' them.

john

How did you make it? That's freakin' awesome.

Nice job Tim D!!!

No cutting going on here. I made a mold from one of my emblems and did a casting from it. I have been wanting to do this for a while and from what I've seen on ebay, there's a demand for these things.

Tim,

FYI, I used urethane mold rubber and easy flow 60, I think if you do sag you could probably use a little emblem glue. Thats what i should have done. Let me know how it works out.

Hey, Remember building "Model Cars" they had chrome plated plastic parts.

Hey Tim they look good. What is a pair going for?

Ok for me! I take one pair!

Do you take paypal?
Please send me an invoice at cheaterpete@gmail.com

Shipping would be more expensive to switzerland...

thanks Tim

Well when you put a coat of clear on that chrome paint, it then looks like silver paint.

I can check around and see what it would run to can get them chrome plated for you, I'm pretty sure they pull the tanks at the plant but my buddy works with alot of outside vendors for that type of work.

It's very common in the headlight industry. What type of plastic was used to make them from?

just don't tell me it's teflon because you'll most likely be SOL if it is.

Tim can you use a different material and have them come out look the same? Not sure the type of molding process your using but I'm pretty sure polyurethane is not plateable, it's a little too flexable and would just crack after words.

it's not a problem chrome plating plastic you just have to use the correct material and urethane isn't one of them I don't think. I'll check with me guy's and see what the say.

I'm not an expert by any means but I know a lot of people that work in the automotive lighting industry and they plate stuff all of the time and I believe they need a slight texture to the plastic so that the first layer of the plating process adhires to the plastic and as it builds up and the other layers are added it smoothes out and then when it gets polished it's smoothed out the rest of the way. If they still have a plating tank at the plant then I might be able to get it done extremely cheap.

Well that may cause the silver metallic paint to look pretty good. I don't know if I can cast ABS or Norel. I'll have to do some research. I haven't heard from the chromer yet, he's in Cali, probably still asleep.