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dialledbikes:
Can't decide whether to send one of my frames to a chromer to get a regular chrome job or to go for a smoke/black chrome job (like the old Mongoose Pro Class and Diamond Back Harry Leary Turbo frames).

Chrome is straightforward enough.

But how is black chrome done?  Do I need to get the chrome job done first then get it sprayed black over the chrome?

Any tips from people who have restored Pro Class/HL Turbos would be appreciated.

Ta!   :daumenhoch:

superbikedan:
mike take a look here http://roseyspowdercoating.biz/osCommerce/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=34&products_id=71

i'll look at my powders when i get back to work, can't remeber if i've got this one :daumenhoch:

dialledbikes:
Cheers Dan.

So the Pro Class and HL Turbos were powdered were they?

I always thought they were a traditional show chrome (but summat done to em during the chroming process to get the smoke/black finish).

Learn summat new every day  :daumenhoch:

superbikedan:

--- Quote from: mike@dialledbikes on April 04, 2009, 09:24 PM ---Cheers Dan.

So the Pro Class and HL Turbos were powdered were they?

I always thought they were a traditional show chrome (but summat done to em during the chroming process to get the smoke/black finish).

Learn summat new every day  :daumenhoch:

--- End quote ---

tbh mate i aint got a clue :-\  this may be an alternative, trouble is some powder manufactures name

there finishes as this or that but when you use them there nothing like what your after >:(

meticulous:
the mongooses were chromed black, as one chromer told me its a process that he called b@stadising the chromeing proccess, the leary's were coloured laquared over chrome, nothing special, non of this 1 coat of this and one coat of that, just coloured laquar over chrome....    ;)

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