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Restoration options
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Welcome to these forums Auplater! I once worked at a Auto Window Tinting shop in Austin that did gold-plating as a "side-biz" on new Car/ Truck mfgrs orig factory-chrome plated "trim pcs". It was a simple process really watching it be done, but the gold-plating machine & the gold (plating powder?) used was quiet a expensive investment if I remember correctly, the machine cost about $4 grand back then? It was about the size of a roll-around battery charger! The new car emblems were carefully removed, laid flat on a small table, and the orig chrome plated surfaces of the the trim pcs were transformed to gold plating in a matter of minutes! Are you set-up to do chrome-plating also? If so, I can do business with you via my vintage radio radios/amplifiers electronics repair shop, and my good friends( great customers!)... that lil' ol' band from Texas,... ZZ Top, who LOVE every pc of vintage "tube-gear" in new ( high quality) vat-type plated CHROME!! The EPA wont allow me to setup a vat where Im located, even out of the local city-limits here! I have used the "Alsa Chrome" products on a few vintage bakelight radio-cabinets with mixed results for these Tx Rock Icons! Can you "chrome-plate" a pair of vintage Levi's? (hee hee)... if so... lemme know! We can do business if your a chrome-plater also? Your doing a great job on your vintage Philco indeed! Keep up the great work!


Messages In This Thread
Restoration options - by auplater - 06-18-2008, 09:35 PM
Re: Restoration options - by Ron Ramirez - 06-18-2008, 10:05 PM
[No subject] - by 49Stude63 - 06-18-2008, 11:01 PM
[No subject] - by philcobenz - 06-19-2008, 12:32 AM
Options - by auplater - 06-19-2008, 07:08 AM
[No subject] - by philcobenz - 06-19-2008, 11:36 AM
Refinishing - by auplater - 06-19-2008, 02:16 PM
Re: Options - by exray - 06-19-2008, 02:24 PM
[No subject] - by philcobenz - 06-19-2008, 03:37 PM
[No subject] - by 49Stude63 - 06-19-2008, 04:44 PM
Re: Options - by auplater - 06-21-2008, 04:49 PM
Fabric cleaned and reinstalled - by auplater - 06-21-2008, 06:38 PM
[No subject] - by Ron Ramirez - 06-21-2008, 09:53 PM
Tube Shields - by auplater - 06-23-2008, 07:35 PM
[No subject] - by philcobenz - 06-24-2008, 07:05 PM
[No subject] - by auplater - 06-24-2008, 07:44 PM
[No subject] - by Texasrocker - 06-25-2008, 02:48 AM
[No subject] - by auplater - 06-25-2008, 08:38 AM
[No subject] - by Texasrocker - 06-27-2008, 02:18 AM
Plating - by auplater - 07-01-2008, 08:29 AM
[No subject] - by Texasrocker - 07-02-2008, 01:15 AM
Restoration progress - by auplater - 07-02-2008, 08:51 AM
progress made - by auplater - 07-06-2008, 03:08 PM
Re: Restoration progress - by Ron Ramirez - 07-06-2008, 04:50 PM



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