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Well on Monday I had dropped my wheels off at the powdercoater, HOPING to get them back as we speak, put back together and back on by 5 pm.......huge change of plans
I woke up at 9 am to a phone call from the PC place, saying that when they started to sand blast, they got completely through one rim with no problems, but, halfway through rim number two the chrome plating started to peel on the lip. I woke my ass up and got down there. sure enough, the plating was coming off in an area about 4 inches long and 3 wide. reminded me exactly of trying to get the chrome plating off my crosshairs a while back. some areas had super high parts, and some super super low parts that came off with some sanding.
long story short, i picked them up and took them to CalChrome, a place out here that does large scale chroming for only rims (insane warehouse btw...i thought i was leaning against a wall but it was over 100 boxes of 22x10 rims!). only problem with this, is its a 140 bucks i didnt want to spend, but deep in my head i knew i should have done in the first place before pressing my luck with chrome. also, the rims can be dechromed anywhere between 3 days to 2 weeks from now.....they need at least 50 rims to use the dechroming solution
so stupid. done ranting.
I woke up at 9 am to a phone call from the PC place, saying that when they started to sand blast, they got completely through one rim with no problems, but, halfway through rim number two the chrome plating started to peel on the lip. I woke my ass up and got down there. sure enough, the plating was coming off in an area about 4 inches long and 3 wide. reminded me exactly of trying to get the chrome plating off my crosshairs a while back. some areas had super high parts, and some super super low parts that came off with some sanding.
long story short, i picked them up and took them to CalChrome, a place out here that does large scale chroming for only rims (insane warehouse btw...i thought i was leaning against a wall but it was over 100 boxes of 22x10 rims!). only problem with this, is its a 140 bucks i didnt want to spend, but deep in my head i knew i should have done in the first place before pressing my luck with chrome. also, the rims can be dechromed anywhere between 3 days to 2 weeks from now.....they need at least 50 rims to use the dechroming solution
so stupid. done ranting.