Anyone know how to take rust pitting off of chrome?

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:33 pm

Continuing on with my long-running rebuild of a 1969 Triumph motorcycle, I'm trying to salvage as much of the existing parts as I can. Problem is that a lot of the chrome is pitted with rust.

Anyone know a good way to remove it? I don't mind if the end result looks more like brushed steel afterwards... heck, wouldn't mind if the chrome was removed entirely and I just repainted it, I'm just not sure how good of an idea it is to try to paint over chrome.

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:35 pm

Bondo!

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:37 pm

I'm saving the bondo for MQ, to patch it back together after your structs break everything

Scrime · Post by **Scrime** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:40 pm

I believe I used SOS pads (the kind you would clean dishes with) when I was doing work on my old '73 mustang.

dont_know_at_all · Post by **dont_know_at_all** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:38 pm

Good metal polish, soft cloth, and elbow grease.

HaVoC8750 · Post by **HaVoC8750** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:50 pm

Hehe,

one way to make this step easy, is using a buffing machine (low rpm) to cut out that elbow grease (for us heavy dependant on macro quest) aka too lazy

Would suggest some one write a loop script for the user- buffer.mac

though if the pits are deep wont help =(, you will have to have it refinished and recromed for best results and a tad more costly.

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 5:14 pm

Actually I was thinking of bead blasting the chrome off of it instead. A little work with a dremel tool tells me the chrome is too far gone to salvage. Prolly better off just blasting it down to metal and repainting.

Anyone know how to take rust pitting off of chrome?

Anyone know how to take rust pitting off of chrome?

for the macro quest users...