is "chrome" paint really chrome?

[mcheath]

So is the chrome paint really that? Is it shiny and reflective like chrome? Last time I messed with such, back in the 80's, it was simply silver aluminum in color. Has it gotten better?

[flyboy2610]

So is the chrome paint really that? Is it shiny and reflective like chrome? Last time I messed with such, back in the 80's, it was simply silver aluminum in color. Has it gotten better?

That's pretty much what it was last time I used some about a year ago.

[fbomb100]

its gotting a lot better than the old can stuff you can buy
look at this on youtub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_2dhkl ... re=related

[Ranchero50]

Chrome is an electro-chemical process. Paint isn't...

[Mancar1]

Just chrome colored paint.

[68 Ford Stepside]

Does anyone remember what we use to call silver paint back in 1962 ? I remember. Just wanted to see if anyone else here did.

[fbomb100]

Does anyone remember what we use to call silver paint back in 1962 ? I remember. Just wanted to see if anyone else here did.

its not mexican chrome is it!!

[68 Ford Stepside]

fbomb100: You're not only good, you're fast & your age is telling. Have A Great Ford day!

[67fordtruck]

We called it Okie chrome in my neck of the woods.

[fbomb100]

fbomb100: You're not only good, you're fast & your age is telling. Have A Great Ford day!

well I'm only 39 ..geeh

[taylor351]

Kentucky chrome here in Illinois

[69timemachine]

I always called it "chrome in a can".

I was watching "My Classic Car" and Dennis Gage was in Jay Leno's garage. Jay was talking about some kind of new chrome dip that people can do at home and that it is safe for the environment and turns out as good or better than traditional chrome. Jay said he uses that stuff to rechrome all his parts instead of sending them off for traditional chroming. I don't remember him saying what the stuff is called though. Anyone know anything about what he could have been talking about?

[Whateverman]

its not chrome its just plain hurtin
it'll look shiny (but still not like chrome) for the first day and a half or if you're really lucky most of a week,then it'll quickly fade to a dull aluminum like shade of semi silver
the only paint i've ever used that would stay even close enough to shiny to be called chrome-like was some aluminum fish boat paint i used years ago on a ladder rack i built for my buddy

[fbomb100]

its not chrome its just plain hurtin
it'll look shiny (but still not like chrome) for the first day and a half or if you're really lucky most of a week,then it'll quickly fade to a dull aluminum like shade of semi silver
the only paint i've ever used that would stay even close enough to shiny to be called chrome-like was some aluminum fish boat paint i used years ago on a ladder rack i built for my buddy

this newer stuff is better than than can crap from years passed!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt0affP9 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_2dhkl ... re=related