Rechroming shouldn't cost very much. Anyone with a large enough tub can chrome. The fabrication and body-work take skill.

@@DrSlobGoblin straightening those bumpers is a skill that’s hard to come by, at least someone who’s efficient & consistent.

This isn't just rechroming.

This is called 'triple chrome plating.' @@derbigpr500

This is beyond chrome plating... The first minute and half is body repair and alterations.

No just old old thats how this has always been done

Thanks man! 😇

They don’t want you to know the process. Less competition. That’s the game of the auto industry.

Hello cjraw8152 this video might help explain the process a little deeper. I hope you see this!

​@jdrs4214 it's not a trade secret lmao, and chrome plating is used in many industries, not just auto. Heavy industries use chrome plating for hydraulic rods e.g

so long as they pour it into the local drinking water, its all good

a thread cutter is easiest option

Go Bulls

Naaaaah no way

sixtyfiveford completely agree

Good answer

We use little polymer disks in out tanks at work as well as compressed air blowing over the tanks into a scrubber

Fill it with weld

Melted lead fishing weights can fill dents.

Copper nickel chrome

How much for a set of rims?

Bobby,s Upholstery lol fucking scam

Yes it is similar to Ogden. The majority of bumpers we plate are done on our automated plating line after the piece has been straightened, ground, etc.

North Star Plating how much do you guy normally charge to re chrome a bumper

@@SengKim86 these days a basic bumper cost 600$- 1000. Most shops are ridiculously expensive over 1200-2500. Because they all try and do the best work, like idiots

Only $77

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Neither. Different solutions of sodium dichromate and different washes. They are probably proprietary based on years of trial and error research. Chrome plating is just as much an art as a science. There may be some nickel in one or more of the tanks. Probably also some molybdenum and vanadium and manganese. The reason why you will have an uphill battle from hell opening up a chrome plating shop is not just the startup costs, which you need a lotto ticket for. You can't get around the phsics. You cannot complete the process without the actual metals. Most of which are so tightly regulated that you won't be able to afford all the required failsafes, and protective measures. Most of these places have been there for generations. Thanks to modern legislation if it isn't already built you're not going to have the money to build it...unless you are Elon Musk or a multinational automobile producer. These independent shops are being bullied out of the market to make a simple inexpensive art only possible for the mega money businesses to do so they can charge inflated prices and forbid competition. It's happening in every branch of production worldwide. We built a world dependent on machinery and now it is being turned into a world where only a handful of people control access to it, while everyone else's reliance on it is being increased. It's a corrupt modern game of monopoly. In the early 20th century they were names like Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller. Now a days they are faceless nameless members of an unknown board of directors who change and swap positions so often that no one person or small group is accountable. It is not an action or an event. It is a phenomenon with no cause or source, but an obvious effect. It's what happens when progress hits a dead end and the Giants that fed and grew on it search for new ways to feed without innovating or producing.

Yes they first do alkaline copper afterthat acid coppet

No, there are chemical reasons one metal can or can’t be plated directly onto another. I don’t understand why to be honest, but I’ve seen it before. First, you strip back to clean, bare steel. Any scratches, dents, or imperfections need to be fixed at this stage or they will “bleed through” into the others, and look terrible. This includes any dirt, grease, or oils from your hands - so you need gloves, degreaser, and maybe a solvent like acetone or methylene chloride. Next, you plate copper on top of the steel. Somebody else mentioned using a basic and man acidic bath for the copper plating. Plating probably takes a while to apply a solid coating, which then must be polished and inspected for any new or missed imperfections. Chrome won’t plate onto copper, so you apply a nickel plate over it. This would need to be inspected, cleaned, and probably polished too. Finally the chrome plating is applied. My understanding is this involves “hexavalent chromium” Cr(IV) which is both toxic and carcinogenic. Almost everything involving chromium - from stainless steel to dyes uses this. Chrome will plate onto nickel, which is the last stage before any final polishing. I’d like to be able to do this for small parts at home, but between the strong acids, bases, chromium (IV), and fumes/waste products - it doesn’t seem very neighborly. In the olden days, the waste was just dumped in the trash or rivers - where it became someone else’s problem. The EPA doesn’t have a permissible standard, possibly due to politics. California set a standard for drinking water of 10 parts per billion in drinking water. If you dropped an aspirin-sized tablet of Cr(IV) into 8,500 gallons of water it would not meet the CA standard for drinking water. FYI, not a chemist, never been in the industry - just curious about it.

Didnt see any chrome plating only Nickel

Gediminas Jesinas not sure but I have seen it other videos on nickel plating. Good conductivity perhaps?

Yes it takes chrome better. Stainless steel is the hardest to plate, you have to use alot of 629 activator for it to plate

Chrome doesn't plate well to steel so you copper strike the steal. They spend all that time polishing the copper because the metal will plate in what ever texture it has will affect the look of the finish. The chrome plates better with copper which is why the strike it. Same goes for silver as well

I know this is a old comment, but another detail: iron/steel will form oxides first than nickel. But with copper, this one corrode easier than steel. So the logic is: copper, for protection, nickel for a good polished finish, and chromium in a really thin layer for a great finish.

I read , a long time ago, that the copper will plate into the slight pits and dings and act as a filler. This would imply that there is light sanding between multiple copper plating steps. The end result was to provide for a smoother surface for the subsequent nickel and chrome plating steps.

6 amps, you have no idea what you're talk im no about.

@@xChromerSatanasx . ..... castle chrome ltd employee thanks for your comments ...... m8t exafalant chrome we work a manual plant not an automatic one lol 2..to 3 amps nical 65 degrees. Chrome 34 to 40 degrees run hotter it will have a silky patches all over it .

@@kevinbinnion6445 where is this plating shop because none of your numbers make any sense.

@@kevinbinnion6445 if you were nickel plating a Cadillac bumper the rectifier would have to be set at 6 volts running about 500 amps, if bumper was in tank by itself. Nickel temp 140° Chrome hit high as possible 15 volts running about 1000 amps. Chrome temp 120°.

It is a factory, not a science laboratory.

It is a factory, not a science laboratory.

I'll shoot some video of our plant in operation and I think you'll be impressed in the overall cleanliness of our plant. Considering all that takes place in the chroming process, we do pretty well.

I did it for a summer & I still have scars years later, that acid is fuckin nasty. one of the worst jobs I ever had for sure