Advice: Chroming an aerospoke

Okay, I was thinking of chroming an aerospoke....can this be done...?

forgive me if its a dumb question its 3.25am in ze morning! LOL

Yeah...

i dont know if you could chrome one but i know theres a paint out that looks exactly the same as chrome and lasts longer, your local powder coaters will know what its called

thanks doood! (no seriously thank you)

=D

Chrome is heavy. Spoke's heavy. Just don't. Paint it.

good point. very good point. cheers dude.

In all respect I think the golden turd speaks for itself. I think it may make ANY bike look awful.

i live for threads like this.
i want to see it reach a happy conclusion.

isnt there one which is painted silver in their inventory?

wouldn't it be easier to paint everything else in a matte laquer so that the aerospoke looked more shiny?

you know, rest of bike, you, street, buildings on your route, people, etc etc.

Easiest to go to one of the Vinyl wrapping places that specialise in cars, vans and so forth I'd think.

I saw a Datsun GT-R on Charlotte Street the other day that had full chrome wrap, it went straight through Vulgar and onto cool in one go.

YouTube - Masta Ace Inc - Sittin On Chrome

OK, before the piss taking gets completely out of hand (oh, it already has...oh well), here's the serious answer:

You can't chrome plate it, but you can achieve the look of chrome plating using a technique commonly called vacuum plating or PVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_vapor_deposition to put a thin layer of pure aluminium on the surface, which is then protected from corrosion with a clear gloss lacquer. This is the process used to make the metallised parts of Airfix kits.

Please please please post pictures of this!

See what I mean? So vulgar it becomes cool:

No :-) Is that even legal?

we have alot of compenets vacum metalised at work.
verry expensive, and only really works well on small parts, as the part has to be coated in a vacum chamber. You normally can only coat one side of your part as well, because it has to held in place on a jig.

The finish isn't very hard wearing, and in general pretty crappy on anything bigger than shoe box size.

Cover it in tin foil!

Yes, could be a problem finding anybody with a PVD chamber big enough to take a wheel who will also handle small one-off jobs like this. Teer Coatings, for example have chambers of 500mm dia x 600mm long, so not quite big enough for a 700c wheel, but much bigger chambers are made, such as this at 1800mm dia x 3500mm high

You can get it plated at a fancy jewellery workshop.

There is a technology, (I cant remember what its called) which allows you to apply extremely thin plating, often of Gold to random materials.

Ive seen them Gold plate a fucking apple at a jewellery smithing school. Im sure this method would work for a plastic wheel.

There is a technology, (I cant remember what its called)

It's PVD. We know what the technology is, the problem is finding somebody to do it to something the size of a wheel.

Troll. This whole thing is a con...

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howdy c0n

I've had some strange ideas at 3.25 in morning too...

I had some work done on a hillman imp with with these guys and they were very good quality for a non-london price. They also do spray chroming.

http://www.sprayart.biz/chrome.aspx

I'm a newbie and in nursery so chalking up my 3 posts starting here, anyone any good with nappy pins?

YouTube - High Tech Chrome Paint