Bert,
Supper "mirror" powder coating...cheap and might be worth a shot?..but if
you think chrome is not good enough, then poweder coating may not be
either.
I, for certain do not have enough info...if you can do plastic vapor
deposition on plastic and have it be bright and shiny enough to suit most
people, then what is it that they are "depositing" on the
plastic....chrome?...or some sort of "silvering"?
Cheers, dave
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Bert Knupp wrote:
Volks,
Phooey. I talked to the nice people at Madison Glass Co. (see below). They
re-silver glass mirrors and glass reflectors –
but not metal reflectors. The guy recommended a couple of chrome-plating shops
that I know. I thanked him politely and
hung up: chrome plating does NOT make for a good reflector. (It actually
absorbs some of the light, as it's really a
shade of gray.)
The Uvira people out in Oregon* got back to me: They will re-do a
precipitated-aluminum (automotive-type) reflector for
$75 per light – IF you get it first stripped, cleaned, polished, and pre-plated
with copper and nickel. Too Cadillacky for
my Volkswagenesque budget.
The search goes on. Any ideas?
Bert Knupp
*Uvira, Inc.
310 Pleasant Valley Rd.
Merlin, OR 97532
Telephone: +1.541.956.6880
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Geographically, you're in the perfect spot.
Madison Glass Co. LLC
3257 Gallatin Pike, Nashville, TN 37216
http://www.madisonglasscompany.com
(615) 262-1377
Can do the re-silvering and people from all over the country ship things to be
chrome plated at Chromemasters or Leonard
Plating. I have used both. Leonard's can do many types of plating and
Chromemasters specializes in show chrome.
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM, <vintagvw@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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• Re-silvering light reflectors [1 Update]
Re-silvering light reflectors
"Bert Knupp" <bert.kn...@comcast.net> Apr 06 02:19PM -0500
Volks,
The 15 cm Hella spotlight on my Copbug is showing its age: the silvering is
corroded away from the outer rim of the reflector and there’s some rusting
of the underlying steel. (The Hella fog lights have the same problem,
though I’ve bought them some time using 3M stick-on foil.)
Some of the other antique-car forums have reported good results from an
Oregon company called Uvira, so I’ve written them. But I’d like to know of
any re-silvering shops that y’all might have used that did good work for a
reasonable price. Any recommendations?
Bert Knupp in Music City USA
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