What happened to all the re-chromers?

Don't know if it's true but I've heard that some shops take pieces in and polish and prep pieces and then they are shipped over to Indian reservations to be plated. Indian reservations do not fall under EPA's bullshit. God bless the Indians.lol. We use to be free. Thank God the EPA wasn't around when this country was being built. I will survive with incandescent light bulbs. In spite of the EPA.lol. Lowes has a boat load of them Get them while they are hot and affordable before they show up on he black market. Or you have to go to Canada or Mexico to get some. Could be the next drug crop.lol. They got to be easier to carry over the border that a bale of pot. Not as much fun to smoke though.lol. The shit we worry about amazes me. We let child molesters out of jail and worry about Light bulbs. Huh? Ok enough of my rant. I heard of one plater that had a new guy accidently dumped some cromium down the drain. Supposedly the EPA can go in the sewer and use some dye and trace that stuff right up to your drain. Cost the Co. everything fighting our US deep pockets. But I love that shinny stuff, YRUHOT..Doug

 

Relax people, the world isn't ending despite what some fools with their heads up their a$$es might want others to believe:
http://shine.yahoo.com/green/truth-light-bulb-law-200200491.html

Hell, if you just can't handle that, you can still order up some of these:
http://www.rejuvenation.com/location18/typepageReproduction Bulbs/templates/houseparts_group.html

 

Lucky to live closer to Mexico....some quality pretty good, some not. Just one more industry given away to other countries

 

I don't know where you are in the midwest...howeverm I use

S&H Chrome Plating
817 Madison Industrial Rd.
Madison, Tennessee 37115
(615) 865 0100

Their lead time is amazing, did not charge me a rack fee for all the nickle and dime stuff I had (A ton of engine brackets) and their price point was half of what I thought it would be....and they picked up the return ride....

Best of all, their chrome was thick and straight....they did a great job....I keep sending em stuff...

 

Try this link. They do beautiful work at a reasonable price, with a fast turnaround. http://www.dipitnow.com/

 

The 100 watt thing was passed, then they changed their mind on it.

Someone mentioned Bumper Boyz, research them carefully as a lot of people say bad things about them.

 

I used Tri City Plating in Tennessee. I ordered the bumpers over the phone and they brought them to Auto Fair @ Charlotte and did an exchange for my bumpers. They even bought some cores I had and that helped offset the cost.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="50%">Tri-City Plating Co., Inc.
218 E. Mill St.
Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643

</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Phone: 1-800-251-7536
or:1-423-542-1691
Fax: 1-423-542-9352
Email: bumpers-at-tcplating.com
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Thanks!

To original poster:
Give us a call, Email, or PM me and we can give an exact quote for your bumpers. Lead time right now is about 8 weeks, maybe less. All bumpers get the full copper/nickel/chrome treatment. We can straighten and even patch them if needed. Although I have no idea where we are in relation specifically to you, I can say we are definitely in the Midwest.
www.chromeplatingin.com

 

i went with salt lake chrome for my 56 premiere bumpers.havent got them back but they will be soon.had freinds do theirs,they are real happy.salt lake has a rep come in our area,to the body shops.they came to my house,looked at everything,picked up my bumpers,and some other stuff.they will also return them to me.even the owner,heidi ,came out to show terir new rep the ropes.seem to be great people.they told me they have been in business 45 years.seems a lot of the bumper work now is refurbishing plastic ones.they were a lot less$$ than others,and no shipping. good luck

 

I'm not a big fan of the EPA either, but there are way too many greedy idiots out there that need regulation, unfortunately...

On December 23 1982, the Missouri Department of Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) inform residents of Times Beach, Missouri that their town was contaminated when the chemical dioxin was sprayed on its unpaved roads, and that the town will have to be evacuated and demolished. By February, the federal and state governments had spent $36 million to buy every house in town except one (its owners, lifelong residents of Times Beach, refused to sell). In 1985, the city was officially disincorporated.
Times Beach was founded in 1925 as a part of a newspaper promotion: A 6-month subscription to The St. Louis Times plus an extra $67.50 bought a 20-by-100–foot lot along an unsettled stretch of the Meremec River. The town never became the booming resort that the newspaper had intended; instead, it evolved into a lower-middle–class hamlet of about 2,000 people. It was located just off Route 66, a two-lane highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles and was once was one of the major routes across the American Southwest.
Unfortunately, Times Beach never had the money to pave its roads, and all the dust kicked up by cars and trucks was a real nuisance. In 1972, town officials thought they'd found a perfect solution to the problem: they paid local waste-hauler Russell Bliss just 6 cents per gallon to spray its roads with oil, theoretically gluing the dust to the ground.
Bliss got the oil for free the year before, when a chemical manufacturer that had made most of its money selling napalm to the military paid him to get rid of its waste materials. He mixed six truckloads of that waste--which turned out to be hexachlorophene tainted with dioxin, a dangerous chemical that, once absorbed, can remain in the human body for more than 10 years--with a tankful of used motor oil. Next, he sprayed this carcinogenic cocktail all over town.
The children of Times Beach loved sliding around in Bliss' purple-tinted goo, and no one gave the substance a second thought until animals (particularly horses, who had contact with Bliss-sprayed roads and barn floors and riding rings every day, all year round) started dropping dead. Soon people started to get sick, too. In 1979, the EPA came to town and took soil samples, and in 1982 the agency announced that the levels of dioxin--"the most potent cancer-causing agent made by man," the newspaper said--in Times Beach were off the charts. The agency evacuated the town just after Christmas. In all, the agency spent $250 million and incinerated 265,000 tons of dioxin-tainted soil.
In 1999, the bulldozed and cleaned-up Times Beach reopened as the Route 66 State Park.

 

I blame the damn hippie tree-huggers.

 

I just got some stuff done by Advanced Plating in Nashville and it all turned out really nice, and they are real easy to deal with, will be using them agian real soon. They are pricey but if the quality is good i don't mind paying.

 

Precision Plating of Quincy

Address: 2611 Locust St
Quincy, IL,
62301-3329
Business Activity: Manufacturer

Phone: 217-223-6590

 

they can trace the chemicals, it's like looking at a map, they keep testing in different sewer pipes until they trace it back. We had a shithole of a cad place here, he finally shut down after his sewer permit was yanked, he had been dumping chemicals down the drain for years. The place mysteriously burned to the ground right before he had to clean up the building

 

+2 call and ask for Mat, tell him john said to call

 

Try Librandi's Plating in PA. Don't have address, etc. handy but they have a good website. www.carchrome.com (I think)

 

Overwhelmed by the responses, "Thanks" to all! The bumper is off my "63" Nova wagon and has definitely seen better days. I have reworked it with body hammers and an anvil to the best of my ability. It had some major damage and was pulled way out of the drivers side. I really hate to send it off as I'm in fear of not getting it back but, a Chinese replacement. It is the original heavy, thick steel that is "NOT" being done these days! Anyway, I'll check into a few of these responses and see what turns up. "Thanks" again and as always "HAMB"-ers are where it's at!

 

chrome plater josh is who I would ask. awesome work and very reasonably priced.

 

Just wondering how many of you EPA bashers would welcome those Ma & Pa chrome platers to your neighborhood? Especially if you drink from a well. You going to trust them to dispose of their HazMat properly? Pretty well documented as to what people will do for a few dollars of short term profit. Just ask my Dad. Oh yeah, you can't, because he's dead.

 

I agree. As much of a royal pain the EPA can be, regulations are necessary, especially with dangerous chemicals.

My biggest problem is the convoluted arsenal of laws upon laws and regulations that make it really hard to even know if you are complying or not, which IMHO makes the EPA too powerful. It's not just EPA; that's only Federal level. Each state has its own enviro laws as well. We deal with IN reg. more than EPA actually.

I have talked to quite a few "old time platers" who mostly don't even plate anymore. After hearing some of their stories of "waste removeal" I'm glad the EPA is around to curb it. This stuff is dangerous.

Nowadays, a small shop that can't afford great lawyers will get the shaft if one agency decides to pick on them, right or wrong. We have been treated pretty well, and I believe it is mostly because we have shown good effort to comply and changed whenever asked to. The amount of chemicals we have is pretty tiny compared to the large production operations also.

 

Well put Josh. Here locally it cost about a quarter million for cleanup after the local chrome shop that had been in business since 1962 closed. They hauled away 2500 yards of contaminated dirt.
That shop had permits to discharge the waste water when it went in and used a drain field for most of it.

One finds that most Epa and other govt regs are reactive rather than proactive because someone didn't do their best to keep things right in the past.

 

Pulled this from FORD BARN site:
Spend the $ to ship to The Chrome Shop in Wisconsin. Steve has been doing my chrome plating for decades. NEVER an excuse... the stuff comes back on time, every time and is beautiful. What he promises, he delivers. prices are within reason. I do only top point cars and am very fussy as such.
You will not deal with a more ethical CRAFTSMAN in this trade.
920-727-9444 is Steve's number at his business.

 

You going to post up this ONE lame ass incident every time the EPA is mentioned?!?! You did it in response to one of my posts the other day.

 

You somehow feel that your opinion is more important than my posting a factual historical event? Well excuuuuuuuuse me....

 

You don't have to look very hard to find a lot more than "one lame ass incident" of industry destroying entire neighborhoods through sloppy handling of hazardous materials. Go to the EPA website and read reports of superfund cleanups and be sure to look at the maps to see which ones are in a neighborhood near you. It's us, the taxpayers, that pay for the cleanup after the company closes its doors. It's better to prevent these from ever happening in the first place.

The EPA are the only police force that we have to keep industry in line. Everybody wishes we didn't have to have them, but we do. I hear about "silly nonsensical" EPA rules on TV and the web, but never anything specific and I've never seen a real example of an "honest" business shut down by them. Do you have a "lame ass" story of an honest business shut down by the EPA? Do you have examples of silly nonsensical rules and regulations?

 

Checking in from so cal.. I use Escondido plating in san Diego. Don is a great guy and does high quality work. Checkout their web page

 

YOU think it's only industry...guess again...it's the goverment themselves that polluted...case in point...The Rocky Mountain Arsenal here in Denver...only 15 miles from downtown Denver. Over 6000 acres polluted with chemical from manufacturing Sarin nerve gas and Agent Orange defoliant...the State of ColoRODo sued the US Army back in the '70's to get them to quit manufacturing and polluting...the EPA finally joined the fray in the 80's and finally got it shut down...it became an EPA Super-fund site for clean-up, costing us taxpayers millions of dollars...there are only about 350 acres left to clean and most of it is now a animal refuge.

Same with Rocky Flats, 15 miles west of Denver...the government built plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs up there...and contaminated the soil...the EPA finally got that one shut down. The FBI even conducted a clandestine raid there to serve subpoenas to the management. Would you believe that the work was so secretive, the government actually had surface-to-air missiles stationed at the site and shoot-to-kill orders...???
The site was shut down in the late '90's thanx to the EPA and is in the process of being cleaned up...it'll also be an an animal refuge.

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal is the focus of my fiction book: Arsenal Code RED, at book agents currently, hopefully it'll be published in hard cover soon...or will become an e-book for Kindle and Nook readers.

I researched the Arsenal endlessly...as well as Rocky Flats, which is the focus of the second fictional book I'm writing: Secrets So Sinister.

R-

 

CUSTOM CHROME AND POLISHING CLEVELAND OHIO We are just now having a bumper plated and I have had nickle done here Prices are fair and quality has been just fine
call Bob 216 268 2065

 

Not at all but posting the same story over and over shows a rather thin case on your side. No one wants to pollute the world but I don't think we should have to call a hazmat team every time we replace a lightbulb

 

Thin case? I don't think so.

I think the exaggeration about the lightbulb reveals the thinness of your own case. Got any facts?