Can you chrome plastic

[...joe]

ahhh, good stuff!! i assume that its an expensive process??

[mix]

To chrome plastic you use a process called Vacuum metallizing.

Vacuum metallizing is the process of evaporating aluminum in a vacuum chamber forming an aluminum cloud which than condenses back on and bonds to the plastic to form a uniform layer, which shines like chrome. To protect it you spray over it with a lacquer which is why it has the appearance of a sprayed on effect.

 

thats a new one for me to know about....

[steelrat]

you can at www.chromapart.co.uk , not Metallization (vacuum deposition) or Hard Chrome but a chemical spray process, im putting this here not to spam but inform, as Chromapart is the only company that is doing this as a service in the uk rather than selling the paint machines.