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Spray Chrome Problems: Performing a Glass Test
Spray chrome problems: Performing a glass test
A glass test is an easy way to test your chemicals and machine for proper operation to avoid spray chrome problems. No base coat is needed. Just wash a piece of glass with our base coat cleaner and distilled water. Rinse it well then activate and plate it. No flame treatment is needed on glass.
If the Cosmichrome finish looks good on glass, then it will look just as good on base coat.
Contact us for help if your glass test result is poor. We will help you find the issue causing the problem. The Master System Pro has a built in cleaning system that keeps your machine in proper operating condition to avoid these problems.
The Mini System Pro: Economical Spray Chrome System
Click the image to view an introductory video on the Mini System Pro
Check out our new Cosmichrome Mini System PRO™. A precise, dependable and inexpensive spray chrome machine for plating parts on a smaller scale. Great for 3D prints and helmets.
The Mini System Pro uses separate guns for each step. The Mini System Pro dual gun will provide a precise 50/50 balance of the G4 and G5 products for brilliant chrome plating. It is limited to small parts. If you need to plate larger parts bigger than a hubcap you will need our Master System Pro™
You can clean our base coat!
The latest update to the Cosmichrome base coat features a fantastic new feature. If someone accidentally touches the base coat you clean our spray chrome base coat with distilled water and a damp paper towel. Until now the part would dave to be sanded and sprayed with base coat again. It’s simple and easy.
If someone accidentally touches the base coat after it is dry you can clean off the fingerprints without any harm or damage to the final finish. All you have to do is wipe the fingerprints off with a soft paper towel that has been wet with distilled water. Then re-flame the base coat and proceed with plating as usual. This base coat is also extremely easy to apply and is very resistant to runs and drips. As usual the adhesion of the metal and top coat are exceptional.
This new feature solves one of the more demanding requirements of applying spray chrome coatings. Typically their base coats are very sensitive to accidental touches and other types of minor contamination. This would often lead to frustration when an curious coworker would decide to handle and inspect the parts being coated. Now one can just clean the fingerprints off rather than having to sand and reapply the base coat.
Additionally Cosmichrome base coat is still the only base coat that can’t be over dried. The dryer it is the better the adhesion of the metal and top coat. Other products are much more sensitive to over drying and loss of adhesion.
You can let our base coat dry all weekend or even all week and there will be no loss of metallic adhesion.
As always, Cosmichrome is the only spray chrome product guaranteed not to turn yellow. That is just one of the many reasons it is the spray chrome of General Motors, Andretti Autosport and West Coast Customs to name a few.
Rose Gold is Hot!
Rose gold is very fashionable at the moment. We manufacture rose gold for electroplating that is very popular with jewelers and some people are plating car emblems with our brush rose gold too. You can simulate rose gold using Cosmichrome to take advantage of the rose gold surge in popularity. This is a sample of rose gold colored Cosmichrome created in our Montreal office.
Call or email us for the easy to mix formula.
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