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So Much Chrome - Colin Morgan - 31-03-2019
Have just polished the chrome on the Ruby - surprised to find there are over thirty separate items on the outside, and twenty on the inside.
Colin
RE: So Much Chrome - Chris KC - 31-03-2019
Polish?
RE: So Much Chrome - Duncan Grimmond - 31-03-2019
(31-03-2019, 05:33 PM)Chris KC Wrote: Polish?
The work of the devil!
RE: So Much Chrome - Colin Morgan - 31-03-2019
Yes, it brightened it up a bit - pity about the pitting, it must have looked great when new...
Colin
RE: So Much Chrome - Nigel Ricardo - 31-03-2019
On my Pearl, everything is Repro apart from the headlights, rear window surround and windscreen surround which were re-chromed and finished off with pair of Willies bumpers
RE: So Much Chrome - Steve kay - 01-04-2019
Now Nigel, do we detect the makings of an ooh matron joke in there?
RE: So Much Chrome - Bill Sheehan - 02-04-2019
Colin - all the Austin Motor Co literature I've read, both old and modern, says clearly to Not put polish on chrome, just wash with water. Explanation not given. Perhaps this is now wrong? Cheers, Bill in Oz
RE: So Much Chrome - Tony Press - 02-04-2019
With quite a lot of the plating on Mazac (white metal or as it was often called sh*t metal) there is little you can do to stop the pitting.
RE: So Much Chrome - Colin Morgan - 02-04-2019
I have seen that somewhere - about washing only, but eighty years on and it was looking a bit dull. This wasn't a serious exercise - there is more pitting than chrome on the Mazac handles and sidelights, the front bumpers are only roughly silver painted, and the headlights show mottled through to the copper. As with valuable old coins, it can be a serious crime, punished in the pocket, to remove the patina - and with it the history, but with my car it is neither here nor there as it doesn't make much difference. (Don't know what I'm going to do with all this silver polish, though - only used every other year on a pocket watch - this tin will last for decades.)
The original chrome certainly seemed to last, being let down only by the Mazac and the steel of the bumpers over a long time.
Colin
PS If I were really into chrome I would have a 50s Cadillac and a much larger garage.
PPS This was meant as another April 1st wind-up, but no-one seems particularly bothered - apart from the first couple of comments, which looked promising...