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04-08-2013, 11:02 AM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: arroyo grande, ca,
ca
Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 427
Posts: 1,774
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Windshield Escutcheons
I have never never been really happy with the market available windshield escutcheons.
For one thing, the slot for the frame had rounded ends (the frame has square edges) and to lay the frame back enough to be right for the convertible top and side windows, the escutcheons wouldn't lay flat.
Solution: square the ends of the slot and slightly lengthen the slot in the escutcheon.
Then. I always felt the aluminum escutcheon never looked right against the chrome windshield frame, so I thought I would polish the escutcheons.
Then I found out the escutcheons have some sort of clear finish on them that is hard to polish off.
So maybe I'll get a fresh set and send them out to be chromed. Will that clear finish on them cause a problem for the plater?
Any input or other ideas?
Cheers
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04-08-2013, 11:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Little Rock area,
AR
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
Posts: 4,519
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It's probably anodizing which can be stripped off with oven cleaner or a product Eastwood sells. However, I'm not sure aluminum can be chrome plated - I think the process revolves around the properties of ferrous metal - not 100% sure. But yes, the anodizing finish would have to come off. Probably easier to carefully polish and clear coat.
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04-08-2013, 01:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Tucson,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine:
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What we need is some made of stainless steel. The could be polished w/o the cost of plating.
Larry
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04-08-2013, 01:41 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Queen Creek,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine: Midstates, Vette suspension, Baer 6P brakes, 540 cid Chevy, Haltech Fuel Injection
Posts: 906
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Aluminum can be chrome plated. Would be easier to use some chemistry to remove the film and then polish it.
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ItBites
10.69 @ 129.83mph - on pump gas and street tires
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04-08-2013, 01:56 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Holderness, NH, US of A,
NH
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 4772 old iron FE
Posts: 5,499
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Aluminum can be copper plated then chromed but is the expense worth it. Strip the clear and boil them in tomato juice to make them look original ;-)
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04-08-2013, 02:02 PM
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The original AC Cars parts were die stamped and shape formed aluminum. The large main appearance sides were mirror polished and all surfaces hard clear anodized.
I have seen originals that somebody chrome plated during a restoration with little or no preparation that subsequently had badly peeling chromimum with still shiny anodize beneath it.
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1964 Cobra owner since 1983, Cobra crazy since I saw my first one in the mid 1960s in Huntsville, AL.
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04-10-2013, 09:07 AM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: arroyo grande, ca,
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 427
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I like LMH's idea of SS.
I'm going to contact both my plater and my SS guy for input.
I'll let you all know.
Cheers
Greg
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04-10-2013, 07:56 PM
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Greg, if you do happen to have a set of them made out of stainless, let me know. If they aren't too much, I'd like to get a set.
Larry
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