RE: IML: 60 Imperial reflectors

["Karl" <karlsmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have used a new paint.  It is chrome finish when done.  Looks just about
perfect.  It is sold online at:

http://www.paintforcars.com/

Just click the link on the page for Chrome paint.  It is a little expensive.
You can chrome a lot of stuff with the kit though.
You can even chrome wood!!
Karl
1960 Imperial

-----Original Message-----
From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob P
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:05 AM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: 60 Imperial reflectors

That's cheating.  That XJ Jag isn't painted, it's polished aluminum. There 
are some decent "chrome" type paints, but nothing too good.  There is a guy 
with some kind of plating that chromes fiberglas that looks real good (have 
the link someplace) but it probably costs more than getting the pot metal 
replaced.


>From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
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>To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: IML: 60 Imperial reflectors
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 08:37:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Did you have a case of beer under your arm when you
>walked in the door?
>
>Was the machinist an older man - at or past retirement
>age?  This is a project for someone with some smarts,
>patience, and experience.
>
>Don't let that bad experience get you down.  Keep
>looking is my advice.  I'm personally very leery of
>pot-metal repair.  You might be ahead buying a
>drilling tool, grinding out the pits yourself, and
>then learning how to melt brass into the divots and
>grind it down.
>
>Thats "all" they do.  Pain in the behind, if you ask
>me. - Especially for an item that need only pass
>casual scrutiny.
>
>
>One other suggestion:  Use a wheel to grind the
>surfaces flat/smooth.  Perhaps on a Dremel tool or
>something.
>Fill voids with body filler, and go to an automotive
>paint place.  They have paints that are "almost"
>indistinguishable from chrome.  You can use your
>sand-blasted piece for this one.
>
>http://img26.exs.cx/img26/8163/jaguar-xj0367.jpg
>
>So much of what determines success in life is who you
>have helping you.  Most places within 100 KM of you
>won't be worth talking to.  You have to search.
>
>
>Either way, best of luck in your mission - let us know
>how things turn out and how painful the solution was?
>
>--- Rob van der Es <r.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You are right about that Kenyon, the problem however
> > is that machinists
> > are often to busy (at least in my area) to have time
> > to reproduce this
> > disc.
> >
> > I have tried several but they were all to busy to
> > even look at it..
> > And one shop ruined even my original disc when they
> > sandblasted it!
> >
> > That is why I ordered another one from Lowell, and I
> > am now trying to find
> > me a decent shop that can handle potmetal so that
> > this one won't be
> > destroyed!!
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > Op Wo, 2 augustus, 2006 7:05 am, schreef Kenyon
> > Wills:
> > > I think that the topic here is the disc that goes
> > > under the emblem in the center of a flightsweep
> > decklid.
> > >
> > > If so:  Why pay $500,000 to have that reflector
> > > repaired?
> > >
> > > Seems to me that you could have a talented
> > machinist
> > > reprduce a new one out of a steel blank and have
> > it turn out PERFECT and
> > > ready to be plated.
> > >
> > > I have not looked at mine lately, but those pot
> > metal
> > > folks charge a fortune, and there's no assurance
> > that your restored
> > > potmetal won't sprout more dimples in the future.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Kenyon
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Henry Hopkins <hhrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Are you talking about the chrome pieces that
> > >> surround a red plastic reflector on the tips of
> > the rear fins???  If so,
> > >> when you get the chrome piece fixed, George
> > Laurie
> > >> Georgelaurie@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> makes reproduction reflectors that are superb.
> > >>
> > >> If you are not talking about those pieces, excuse
> > me
> > >> for the intrusion.
> > >>
> > >> Henry Hopkins, 60 cvt.
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Regis Bodnar" <arbie104@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:05 PM
> > >> Subject: RE: IML: Looking for a potmetal repair
> > shop
> > >> in the New York area
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Paul's Chrome in Evans City, PA can repair it
> > and
> > >>>
> > >> re-plate it...they are
> > >>> not cheap, but guarantee everything for life and
> > >> use show quality
> > >>> chrome.
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > >>>
> > >> Behalf Of Rob van der Es
> > >>
> > >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 PM
> > >>> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> 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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