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1. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: "Ptegler" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:12:59 -0500; I keep seeing references here to 'painted' trim. I've yet to own a spit where the trim (rear top wing and tail surround) that was anything other than black anodized metal. Never painted. Paul Tegler; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00479.html (9,165 bytes)
2. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Robert Gunther <rjgunthe@bellatlantic.net>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:01:03 -0500; All of the black painted trim is actually stainless steel painted black with the exeption of the 2 "horse shoe" peices on the rear fenders. I just stripped mine down with paint stripper. I'm looking; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00481.html (10,358 bytes)
3. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: "Ptegler" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:44:55 -0500; Well.... after a somewhat crappy tape-off job...(PO) cleaning up the white overspray from the lower edge of the top rear fender trim... the white came off, and never effected the black what so ever.; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00484.html (11,598 bytes)
4. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Robert Gunther <rjgunthe@bellatlantic.net>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:54:59 -0500; I had to steel wool mine while using the stripper and buff it Bob; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00485.html (12,405 bytes)
5. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Mike Ginter <mikeginter@frii.net>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:40:40 -0700; I have a set. They are attached to a Spitfire though. You have to buy the entire car. And it's all chrome trim, no black (mandatory thread content for my shameless plug). See it at: http://albums.pho; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00490.html (11,407 bytes)
6. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Mike Ginter <mikeginter@frii.net>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:43:21 -0700; I agree. That's not paint on the rear quarter upper trim strips. If anyone figures out what it is, I'd really like to know. Can't stainless be anodized as well as aluminum? Mike; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00491.html (12,870 bytes)
7. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: PorscheRcr@aol.com; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:43:01 EST; Not having any such trim to look at I'm just taking a guess.. but could it be powdercoated? The process has been around quite a while. Bill J. '68 GT8; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00492.html (8,453 bytes)
8. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Vic Whitmore <vicwhit@home.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:03:19 -0500; It isn't paint. And it isn't anodizing since the trim isn't aluminum. It is a black metal treatment of some kind. I have seen it described somewhere but I forget the details. Vic Whitmore 76 Spitfire; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00493.html (13,763 bytes)
9. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Len Lubbers <lubbers@sympatico.ca>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:50:23 -0500; My '79 has painted trim. I know because I paid for it. The black was pretty faded when I got it, so I had the shop paint it ... black, of course. Are you all suggesting that I could have simply steel; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00496.html (9,432 bytes)
10. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Robert Gunther <rjgunthe@bellatlantic.net>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:23:00 -0500; yup !!!!; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00498.html (9,583 bytes)
11. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:41:34 +0000; Speaking of trim pieces, I got a full set of stainless/chrome stuff from the Autojumble last weekend... should look lovely with Sophie's baliol blue.. Question is, isn't there a trim piece of some ki; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00502.html (10,191 bytes)
12. RE: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: "Bowen, Patrick" <pbowen@intellinetics.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:52:04 -0500; all types of metal can be anodized. The military uses anodized brass all the time (which is great because I hate polishing the stuff) So I am sure you could anodized aluminum. I do know that if you w; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00503.html (13,458 bytes)
13. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Grant Buss <buss3@sympatico.ca>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:37:48 -0500; When I painted my car I was told the pieces were 'black chrome'. It is used on motorcycles.; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00505.html (13,176 bytes)
14. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Vic Whitmore <vicwhit@home.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:53:52 -0500; Thanks, Grant. That sounds "more" correct. I don't think Black Oxide is right, but it sounded closer than paint. Here is a description from a metal plating shop: Chrome and Black Chrome Reliable's Ch; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00507.html (15,573 bytes)
15. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Robert Gunther <rjgunthe@bellatlantic.net>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:43:09 -0500; well i know i stripped it off with paint stripper and steelwool. It needs to be buffed afterwards to get rid of the steel wool marks. Actually, it looks like some type of plastic coating. Bob........; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00508.html (13,872 bytes)
16. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: "Luke Lewis" <lukage@home.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:08:03 -0500; Well that explains the multiple coats of black flaking off of my fender-top pieces. Cursed p.o.'s! Luke; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00509.html (10,360 bytes)
17. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>; Date: 29 Nov 2000 11:51:01 -0600; Patrick and Mike, I disagree that all metals can be anodised. Anodising (UK spelling with s not z!) aluminium (UK again with extra 'i'!) takes advantage of the fact that aluminium oxide is very stabl; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00510.html (8,274 bytes)
18. RE: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: "Bowen, Patrick" <pbowen@intellinetics.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:04:07 -0500; Richard close, anodizing is simply a form of electroplating. Any metal that conducts electricity can be anodized, the problem is the resulting quality and usefulness. For the coating to be high quali; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00512.html (9,356 bytes)
19. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: PorscheRcr@aol.com; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:15:01 EST; << Coating provides limited corrosion protection, but added protection can be obtained by specifying underplate such as nickel or copper. >> If you've ever heard of "triple plated chrome" these are w; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00514.html (8,382 bytes)
20. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? (score: 1): Author: PorscheRcr@aol.com; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:30:06 EST; << Stainless steel is iron mixed with a little of another metal (don't know what) In the most common alloys (300 series)the primary alloying components are Chromium and Nickel. this is maybe $.o1 wor; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00515.html (6,973 bytes)

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