There are several specialists in the US who are very good at restoring
Mazac. The cost is high, but results generally excellent. It
requires a great deal of hand work to do correctly. Several old US
cars, Harleys and Indians all need this work. I had my A90 Austin
wings and other mazac bits done beautifully in the US.
On 7/25/11, Austin Healey <pajtamuvek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here in Hungary, chrome painting costs nearly equal to normal chrome
> plating. But as menshioned, there are parts that are nearly impossible to
> replate (like thin corroded/pitted mazac, or badly dent/damaged minor items
> which are not available new etc). I have found it not quite suitable for
> parts that are touched frequently.
> Still plating is better.
>
> Gergo
>
> 2011/7/24 mark lapierre <lapierrem at sbcglobal.net>
>
>> That was more of a very bright metalic looking silver, back in those days.
>> This is a totally different operation of course.
>>
>> I had the chrome paint done on my bumper overriders. Very hard to tell
>> the
>> difference to the
>> real operation. I swapped some services so I don't really know how
>> much
>> it
>> costs.
>>
>> ML
>>
>> --- On Sat, 7/23/11, Joe and Lenore Armour <sebring at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Joe and Lenore Armour <sebring at hotkey.net.au>
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fw: [DiRT] Spray on Chrome paint demo by Jay Leno
>> To: "Healey" <healeys at autox.team.net>
>> Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 8:35 PM
>>
>>
>> John Sims wrote:
>>
>> >This was been kicked around on the Healey list. For all I can see, it is
>> >VERY pricey.
>> >
>> >John Sims, BN6
>> >Aberdeen, NJ
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Back in 1967 we used to do something called Saturday afternoon
>> restorations by painting the 48 spokers with a $5 can of CHROMEBRIGHT
>> aerosol paint. Looked great under lights down main street later that
>> night.
>>
>> And by the way we gave the knockoffs a good wack just in case a late
>> night competition started. Great care was required so that a miss-hit
>> did not damage the fresh resto. as one can was not enough for two restos.
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