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chrome headlights - Graham123 - 07-10-2017
Hello anyone recommend where to have a pair of Austin 7 headlamps rechromed and a guide price
Many thanks
RE: chrome headlights - Dave Wortley - 07-10-2017
Graham,
Prestige Plating of Mexborough in S yorks are excellent but as I don’t know where you live it may be miles away.
Dave
RE: chrome headlights - Ruairidh Dunford - 07-10-2017
I use Doug Taylor in Weston Super Mare - I live in Glasgow and post stuff to them. Very old family firm.
RE: chrome headlights - Peter Johnson - 07-10-2017
Can recommend Castle Chrome in Dudley. They did both my windscreen frame and radiator shell for the saloon - although they were both in nickel. Cost about £400 a few years back.
Peter
RE: chrome headlights - Martin Prior - 07-10-2017
(07-10-2017, 02:05 PM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: I use Doug Taylor in Weston Super Mare - I live in Glasgow and post stuff to them. Very old family firm.
Highly recommended!
RE: chrome headlights - GK5268 - 08-10-2017
Genius of the Lamp in Birmingham, excellent, highly recommended!
http://geniusofthelamp.co.uk/
RE: chrome headlights - Martin Baker - 08-10-2017
I can thoroughly recommend Russell Jones at Silvabronz (Beckworth Services) in Alton, Hampshire (http://www.beckworth.net/). Did a super job on my Pearl windscreen surround plus a lot of small parts.
RE: chrome headlights - Stuart Joseph - 09-10-2017
(07-10-2017, 01:31 PM)mGraham123 Wrote: Hello anyone recommend where to have a pair of Austin 7 headlamps rechromed and a guide price
Many thanks
Good morning. There are three issues with chroming - quality, cost and time. Chroming forms a large part of my interest in making and restoring headlamps and the cost varies wildly - I have just been in conversation with someone who has paid in excess of £1000 to have a box rad surround chrome plated and someone else whose Brough Superior rad surround was at the platers for 13 years!
I use a commercial platers who are not restoration specialists hence anything I take has to be perfect and they do not undertake any work for anyone unknown to them.
If you are having headlamps re-plated it is essential that the steel bases are removed as polishing is difficult and the chemicals used in the plating process are trapped between the shell and base causing rapid deterioration of the steel.
If anyone is in the market for an excellent re-plated box rad surround I have one available for only £395! Photos available at the end of the month.
Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire
Stuart
RE: chrome headlights - Graham123 - 08-07-2021
Thank you
RE: chrome headlights - David Cochrane - 11-07-2021
(09-10-2017, 10:43 AM)Stuart Joseph Wrote: If anyone is in the market for an excellent re-plated box rad surround I have one available for only £395! Photos available at the end of the month.
Stuart
Yes please Stuart - the one on my RP is cracked and needs plating.
Regards,
David