Wanted to once again get some input from everyone here. I have purchased a hood lip moulding for my 68. The seller, whom is a Cadillac club member I trust is pretty confident he can pack it tightly in a shipping tube and I got it for a pretty good price. Providing it arrives intact, my next step will be to get it re-plated as he said its in great shape, but the chrome was bad so it was sprayed with a powder coat.
I have contacted several shops that offer plating locally and so far I have been told that since the EPA has made it too expensive for many shops to do chrome plating they cant do it and they knew of no shops to recommend me in Oklahoma.
I really dont want to ship it, as I know even having it shipped to ME has risk involved due to the shape of the moulding. So I dont want to take that risk twice.
I looked into Nickel plating as an alternative but it looks like the color will be slightly off. I also looked at Eastwood single stage chrome reflective paint, but I havent really decided on what path in going to take.
My big question is, in your experiences, do you consider Nickel plating to be a viable alternative or is "go chrome or go home", I'm iffy on the paint, I believe Ed mentioned it was kinda blue-ish. Are there any other methods you have used to achieve a close to chrome finish when chrome plating was not available as an option?
Heres the paint:
https://www.eastwood.com/hotcoat-powder-single-stage-reflective-chrome.html
I have contacted several shops that offer plating locally and so far I have been told that since the EPA has made it too expensive for many shops to do chrome plating they cant do it and they knew of no shops to recommend me in Oklahoma.
I really dont want to ship it, as I know even having it shipped to ME has risk involved due to the shape of the moulding. So I dont want to take that risk twice.
I looked into Nickel plating as an alternative but it looks like the color will be slightly off. I also looked at Eastwood single stage chrome reflective paint, but I havent really decided on what path in going to take.
My big question is, in your experiences, do you consider Nickel plating to be a viable alternative or is "go chrome or go home", I'm iffy on the paint, I believe Ed mentioned it was kinda blue-ish. Are there any other methods you have used to achieve a close to chrome finish when chrome plating was not available as an option?
Heres the paint:
https://www.eastwood.com/hotcoat-powder-single-stage-reflective-chrome.html