DIY Spray On Chrome

Nicamarvin but do u try alsa or spectra chrome sensitizer? Did they work ok?

 

this is some cool shit!

 

Hi for all!

Today again spent all day for silvering!
I tryed to mix my own formula for this!

There is results!

Before top coat!























After top coat! Top coat is still wet and light is very very poor











This is 100% my formula! I use only AG wetting agent!
In pics looks ok, but there is little fogy on silver, but i know why! Silver nitrate is bad or not poor or amonia is to old! I try to fix that next week!

 

I did try the Alsa ChromeFx chemicals and coatings. I found them to be of the highest quality.. but on the chemical side they are not to far away from the alsa chemicals, so if you are on a budget, I would say stay with the AG chemicals, but on the coating side(top coat side) I found out that you could save alot of trouble by just buying their tinted clear

 

Nice results.. you are doing quite well... nice job

 

Nicamarvin can u one more time explane about color!

I talk with friends from car paint garage and they dont know nothing about urethane colors!

What i will try:

1. ground color
2. work with sand paper to make good glossy surface
3. base color- white
4. clear coat (lacquer)
5. silver
6. tinted clear coat

It is right? Do silver on lacquer works Ok?

 

I´m not sure what are you talking about. what I said is, 2k Urethane clear coat is not acrylic paint. and urethane is not a color is whats the coating made of. they use 2k because its 2 parsts(actually 3) the clear(or color if its single stage) the reducer and the Catalizer(that bonds the coating into a single coat)

we dont use the term lacquer any longer. there are newer coatings to be had..

I have posted the order of things on this thread. you can read past post to see it yourself. but I´ll do aquick post about it..

for plastics that are to be flexed..

primer for plastics(will hold on to the plastic and wont crack when flexed)

black or white base coat and 2k clear coat(or single stage black/white 2k urethane)

prep for silver(clean, wetting agent)

Silver.

Dry.

tinted clear coat

 

English is not my native language and i was wrong with coatings!

My good friend have a car repair garage and base coat and clear coat is not any problem! I will try to find urethane coat, to try it!

Its mean that prep for silvering is almost that same like car painting-
- primer
- base
- clear coat

Nicamarvin what u are doing now? No silvering anymore?

 

thats right.

I´m saving money again. I´m not silvering any longer but will resume doing it in a few months..

 

Yess it is expensive hobby! But im stupid and i cant stop this! All start was when some friend give me a bike petrol tank from very old bike!, and i must to chrome it I sandblast it and try to tin it! It was deformed hard! And i understand that it is 99% impossible to do that! I hope silvering is the answer for this question,...

 

Nicamarvin good to see you posting on here again!
Sudzhis nice work again!

I havent been here for a few days as I have been mega busy but I have got some stuff to contribute to the thread.
I will try to get back on tommorow

 

yeah. being a hardheaded is a must in this line of work...

 

Hi!
Today i spent some hours in silvering again!
I decided that maybe my chemicals is not to poor enough and i buy today carbon filter for filtering then! Never never never filter your chemicals with carbon filter ha ha!
I mix amonia and silver nitrate and filter it several times! Later i realized that silver solution does not smell of ammonia anymore I let it to try and YES= no reaction absolutely zero
I add ammonia bet result was not so good, because i think lot of silver stay in filter! haha

How ewer small dots or clouds or almost transparent spider web, or whatever how i call it is still on surface! Maybe my sodium carbonate is bad I will try to buy it this week new!

 

thats why I buy premix chemicals...

 

Hi!
Maybe u are right Nicamarvin, but I have a little different situation! My grand dad restoring mirrors with silver for 40 years and I have all chemicals and lot of them! I have lot of silver nitrate! I think it is stupid to buy all thats same chemicals what u have at your home

 

hi!

I think I will buy this gun today

 

it wont make any difference(for small to medium sized pieces) it will work for larger pieces. remember, compressed air is not a good friend of Silvering

 

thats correct. that works for you. but it wont work for your average joe hotrodder.

 

I just tired to use these hand spray bottles! I make my own gun, but it isnt comfortable in use! And in this gun i know that both liquids will spray similarly! These cheap chinese guns is rubbish and i cant get similar sprays!

Why compressed air is bad?

 

you will be introducing moist and oil(even on a microscopic quantities) to the mixed formula

 

for average Joe this is impossible mission anyways with own mixed or buyed chemicals There is lot of work and tips and tricks!

Why u dont mix it in your garage? In Your country is problems with chemicals?

 

even with good filters?

 

its not impossilbe if you follow my "Tips and Tricks" thats what this thread is all about. making this process as simple as it can possibly get.

I dont mix my own on my garage because I cant get the consistancy required for a business enterprice. too many variables.

 

But when u mix your formula and use it? Result was bad?

 

no. it was inconsistant from one mix to the other. I could always silver. but I did not wish to add more complexity to this process. its as complex as it gets

 

ok, understand! Its mean i`m little more stupid than U, but I will try to do this!

 

no. it means you will have to work with what you haven been dealt with. but dont expect other forum posters to do as good as you. thats why I created this thread for. to make it as easy as it can, without compromising anything

 

Yes Nicamarvin U are right!
Thanks for Your help here, without Your experience it would be much harder to do! I will try to share my experience here too!

 

Amazing stuff !! Thinking about doing some parts.
Latvia and Nicaragua and I'm reading this thread in SW Oregon.
My Grand parents immigrated to the USA from Lithuania in the 1890's so this thread holds alot of significance in some way. Family history says they met in Riga, Latvia.

A question. What heat can this process resist. Valve cover temp's??
Maybe 200*C ?

Movin/on

 

Yess Riga is capital city of Latvia, but Lithuania is neighbor country!

Nicamarvin make some experiments on bike exhaust pipe, hi did it well! But there is some tricks! Read this topic from first page!