Painting over chrome

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Apr 4, 2010 | 11:09 AM

Bruticus

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Painting over chrome

I found a set of chrome soft 8 looking rims for cheap they are pretty rusty as the owner described em im just looking for the best way to just spray bomper them. nothing permanent cause i can always go back and repaint them i just wanna know a way to atleast make paint stick on em decently for cheap

thanks.

Apr 4, 2010 | 11:39 AM

Turbo X_J

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From: ☼ Blackhole Sun

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Media blast.

Apr 4, 2010 | 11:46 AM

96_xj

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media blast indeed. paint does not stick to crome.

Apr 4, 2010 | 11:56 AM

91familyxj

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Well I was watching the whole power block thing yesterday and they showed how to paint chrome. Maby look into that. it was on horsepower tv. its like a 3 or 4 stage process.

Apr 4, 2010 | 11:57 AM

91familyxj

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paint over chrome sorry.

Apr 5, 2010 | 11:06 AM

AutomaticKrackr

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I used to work in a chrome plating factory and we used a adhesion promoter.This was used to paint grilles and embems for many factory pieces.(plastic)