30-08-2018, 03:25 PM
Hi Barry, Couldn't find anything I liked, so I made the mirror stems from 3/8" mild steel round bar welded to 1/8" steel plate. I dressed the welds off and then had them chrome plated.
If I was doing them today, I'd probably make them from stainless steel to avoid the need for plating, Chroming seems to take forever these days (7 weeks to not be finished so far on the last batch I took in) and because of the environmental requirements for the nasty chemicals used it is expensive too.
If I was doing them today, I'd probably make them from stainless steel to avoid the need for plating, Chroming seems to take forever these days (7 weeks to not be finished so far on the last batch I took in) and because of the environmental requirements for the nasty chemicals used it is expensive too.