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Originally Posted by Pic-A-Card  Indeed! How exactly does a ship get 'chromed'?  |
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Originally Posted by biotech Something to do with electrodes I think, I once saw a website where a guy was chroming lego bricks. |
As far as I know, you can't technically chrome plastic or anything that will melt fairly easily. The technical word for chroming something is electroplating. It invloves, high electricity, a vat of liquid nickel (something like that) and lots of wire. You wrap your metal object in wire, energize said wire and the resultant pull of electrons pulls the nickel to the object, thus making it shiny.
Alternatively, you can just polish the living crap out of certian metals to make them look like chrome. Aircraft Grade Stainless Steel for instance.
For plastics, (and the includes fiberglass which is plastic reinforced with glass fibres) you have to use a process called vacuum metalizing. Its a completely different process that basically give the same results.
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That looks really, really cool. Did you make a negative mould for it and a plug? If so, would you mine sharing your secrets? I've been wanting to make car parts out of fiberglass but am having difficulty finding a good idea how.