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Chrome wrap... it may be real this time...
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CheapVehicleWrap
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AND... (they didn't tell you), it'll work and stick in 2020.
By "released in 2012", do they mean they're installing it by Christmas and it will fall off by New Years?
signmeup
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Here is a link to Topflite Monokote. http://www.monokote.com/metallic.html
It is a shrink film for R/C model airplanes. Has been around for ages. Very chrome. The stuff is a heat shrink film but it also stretches a little with heat. It comes in a 2'x 6' roll for about 15 bucks or 2' x25' roll in lots of colours. It may be useful for small jobs.
Forgot to mention... this has heat activated adhesive. It isn't stick backed and won't stick without being heated. R/C modelers use a little iron on a stick and a heat gun.
It is a shrink film for R/C model airplanes. Has been around for ages. Very chrome. The stuff is a heat shrink film but it also stretches a little with heat. It comes in a 2'x 6' roll for about 15 bucks or 2' x25' roll in lots of colours. It may be useful for small jobs.
Forgot to mention... this has heat activated adhesive. It isn't stick backed and won't stick without being heated. R/C modelers use a little iron on a stick and a heat gun.
signscharlotte
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Not sure if some of these are real!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8aPaHIclQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8aPaHIclQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1
letterman7
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I've got a sample of the Alsa stuff. Very interesting... and very thick - like 4 mil or so. When I talked with the rep he said that it needs to be clearcoated for outdoor extended use... um.. no. But it does conform reasonably well.. just don't over-stretch it or it becomes very translucent.
beyondgraffix
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Can you lam. it instead of clear coating it?
letterman7
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Probably, but then you'd lose some of it's "stretchiness".
SightLine
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Those are real. Those were done using a spray system. The same company linked in the thread Alsa sells these systems as well. The stuff has to be done very quickly and rinsed almost immediate after the activator. At the very start of the video you see like 3 guys working a large hood - almost need multiple people spraying it on large panels like that. The stuff is insanely good though - I've seen it applied first hand. It looks about as close to real chrome as I've seen - not quite but very very close. It is essentially plating but not electroplating - it uses metal in solution like plating but uses a chemical activator immediatley prior to the metal solution to cause it to bond to the surface. The process from applying and rinsing the activator and applying and rinsing the metal solution must be done very very quickly.
letterman7
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Silver nitrate solution and a rinse of salt water (basically) to let the silver precipitate to the surface. Don't know what the primer treatment is, though... thought about trying a home mix to see what happens. Nothing ventured and all that!
JoshLoring
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letterman7 said:
You would have too.. Chrome wipes off with isopropanol
JoshLoring
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jnataros said:
What's the brand?
heyskull
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A local car franchise asked us to do a chrome wrap on a off roader we hit them with a huge price mainly due to never doing a chrome vehicle.
They ended up sending it to one of our main competitors who wrapped it for quarter of what we quoted!
My business partner was at a local car show where this company was showing their current vehicles and new models and this vehicle was there.
It was positioned at the very rear of their site and it was as if they were ashamed of it.
My business partner managed to get a real close look at it and in their words "what a mess!".
Joins were their shouldn't be joins, splits, scratches and failures and it had only been on the vehicle 2 weeks!
It looks great as it whizzes past at 50MPH but once stopped it looks horrific..
I'm glad I stuck my price so high as the company who wrapped this must be thinking it is such a bad advert for them.
I have since been told the car franchise who originally ordered this are refusing to pay for it.
Chrome looks great as a wrap but I reckon over 70% of your material would end up in the bin.
Chrome wrap still isn't as conformable as normal wrap and I reckon you would have to choose the vehicle it was to be applied to with care as wrapping round curves is nigh on impossible.
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They ended up sending it to one of our main competitors who wrapped it for quarter of what we quoted!
My business partner was at a local car show where this company was showing their current vehicles and new models and this vehicle was there.
It was positioned at the very rear of their site and it was as if they were ashamed of it.
My business partner managed to get a real close look at it and in their words "what a mess!".
Joins were their shouldn't be joins, splits, scratches and failures and it had only been on the vehicle 2 weeks!
It looks great as it whizzes past at 50MPH but once stopped it looks horrific..
I'm glad I stuck my price so high as the company who wrapped this must be thinking it is such a bad advert for them.
I have since been told the car franchise who originally ordered this are refusing to pay for it.
Chrome looks great as a wrap but I reckon over 70% of your material would end up in the bin.
Chrome wrap still isn't as conformable as normal wrap and I reckon you would have to choose the vehicle it was to be applied to with care as wrapping round curves is nigh on impossible.
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CanuckSigns
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Looks cool in theory, but unless you have a lot of drug dealers or rap singers in your area, I can't see why anyone would want this!
if we had a dime for every time we got asked to make a race car chrome...