DIY Spray On Chrome

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum .... I'm from Argentina know understand my bad English .... I am developing as many of you spray on chrome sitema ... someone will step the mirror is not so good when you are in the sun? at a certain angle?

 

hello friend... very good job! clear coat is tinted purple? or is transparent and does not yellow? which brand of product you use?

 

hello friend... very good job! clear coat is tinted purple? or is transparent and does not yellow? which brand of product you use?


Its tinted purple! Brand is Tikurila

 

the mix did you? how much and what measures did you use?

 

I tried with many weapons .... hand guns, air gun, spray ... we are using air guns, watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTdFekw4gns&feature=youtu.be we are manufacturing our own chemicals, I would like to share with you some of my formula little problems .. to operate the air gun used at very low pressure + - 1-5 psi

 

make your own chemicals?

 

Yes, I have my own formula! Check PM!

 

what is your formula of tin that you are using?

 

Looks a little bit yellow! Or maybe images is not so good!

 

as said nicamrvin, silver has a small yellow component that differentiates it from the actual chrome, the picture is not tinted varnish

 

And Where is problem than? Tinted clear coat will give u right color. Or i missing something?

 

this is correct. for production like eviroment I would stick with Alsa chrome tinted clear coat, if not on an production or business enviroment you can try and mix your own tinted clear coat

Alsa tinted clear coat

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do you want to know how good is your tinted clear? or fine tune it? well you can do it by silvering silver spoons and trying them out. first you need to prep the spoon for the silvering then silver the spons and clear coat them with none tinted clear coat wait 1 or 2 days for the clear to fully cure. then test how good is your mix with one or 2 spoons, you can adjust the mix if its too yellow or too violet. always keep a real chorme piece at hand so you can cross check to see it..

here the silvered plastic spoons(no clear coat it)
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tinted clear coat vs none tinted clear coat

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Here compared to real chrome
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I use polyurethane concentrated, violet and blue, but violet .. and I will upload some pictures .. someone tells me how to upload pictures?

 

cromarte upload pictures in some web server like http://postimage.org/



than just paste images URL in the middle

 

i had a very strange problem today! My silver liquids didnt work good! silver chemicals work slowly, not so good as always and after silvering on surface was blue areas, like blue water drops! I tryed to get in balance my spray gun, but nothing good! I decided that if i spray on surface wet coat of silver for start, and then silver+reducer then all works +/- good!

Maybe problem was with T`, because in my country winter is back F*CK and outside is -7-14`C and inside was not more than 17` I think!

 

that reducing use? the glucose and fructose desxtrosa decompose .... store in refrigerator .. formaldehyde have an expiration date ... Sodium hydroxide also has its time

 

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Hi Everyone,

Wow all of you have created some really great pieces. I need some help. I have been trying to overcome a yellowing problem when I spray the clear coat. I am using Shermin Williams urethane clear and as soon as I spray it on you get the yellow tint. I have also tried to tint it purple and blue with no luck. It still has a yellow tint. If I spray enough clear on the piece to remove the yellow then the piece looks to dark like a black chrome. Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.

This is such a great forum, I have learned alot from all of you.

Thanks

 

Before clear coat silvered part is Chrystal clear mirror or it is some yellow shadows?

Do Your tint is strong enough?

 

Nice Job Cromarte. very good job

 

I would like to point out that Cromarte has the process right, he only needs to work on his chrome tinted clear coat thats all...

 

Hi! Yes nice job! What can I say that spray clear coat on spoons is easy job! There is almost impossible to do it wrong! Other thing is spray larger item! This is different story....!

 

you're right, there are more problems large pieces either sensitizer or reducer, etc. and I will upload photo of some purple dye pieces.

 

6 using 2 drops of violet and blue in 100 cc of varnish ... You have to apply the right amount if you spend will be put viole

 

I had a problem, when we apply the silver has to be very clear white and not a dark silver, but to our eyes look good, to apply the clear coat will darken much.
the details we do not see with the eyes of the varnish are then

 

Ou Yes , U are right! Try this trick! Take some glass piece l, clean it and silver it! Blow of the water and look on sun or lamp! If silver layer looks ok, this mean that problem is on silver! If u will se some darker places or something like dark water drops, than problem is under! Maybe your problem is on silver! Try to wash and blow off the water 2-3 times

 

I beg to differ, I had a very hard time doing my first spoons, I learn alot by doing them and believe me, my first 10 spoons were very bad,

 

I have pointed this out this issue in this thread many times,

you sea a nice mirror but when you clear coat it it turn very dark, the reason? not enough silver.. check my posts

 

the issue is not enough silver was applied, I have had this issues before