Bonanza Bryan - "It costs over 250 to get my fenders cromed!!!!!!!!!!"
WOW! That's insane. I hope they are some big ass fenders. My Broncco mini bike fenders cost me $50 each, and they turned out awesome! The handle bars were $75, the full exhaust was $100. I was even impressed with the parts that were polished, almost look like chrome as well!
As for powder coat, it's become SO reasonable these days. You can have a complete mini bike sand blasted and p-coated for $75-$125 and it's so much more durable.
71dodge - I think the "shiniest" coating their gonna have in powder coat is more similar to a silver...whereas if you get it "ceramic" coated it'll have more of the "chrome" look to it...but nothing shines like chrome! Good luck!
WOW! That's insane. I hope they are some big ass fenders. My Broncco mini bike fenders cost me $50 each, and they turned out awesome! The handle bars were $75, the full exhaust was $100. I was even impressed with the parts that were polished, almost look like chrome as well!
As for powder coat, it's become SO reasonable these days. You can have a complete mini bike sand blasted and p-coated for $75-$125 and it's so much more durable.
71dodge - I think the "shiniest" coating their gonna have in powder coat is more similar to a silver...whereas if you get it "ceramic" coated it'll have more of the "chrome" look to it...but nothing shines like chrome! Good luck!
Strigoi is correct...they don't really have "chrome" powdercoat but they do have some things that much better approximate chrome then what you can shoot out of a spraycan. Here is an example from over on the hamb board that gives a good contrast between powder and chrome...the valve cover is powdercoated while the coil is actual chrome.
Sure the chrome is prettier but the powder gives a nice look with high reflectivity and the guy was able to do this at home using Eastwood stuff. For minibike stuff that was not originally chromed I think it would look great (an entire frame and forks would be imensely more affordable then actual chrome plating). The endurashine stuff that edelbrock is using looks even more like chrome but I don't know where you would get something like that done.
this place looks to do some decent work with chrome powder coating.
Chrome Powder Coating
Chrome Powder Coating
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Yes they do. I used to work as a painter in a powdercoating shop and I did my 4-wheeler frame in chrome powdercoat. It may have been Dupont who made the paint.
I acutally used it alot as a basecoat for when I would use translucent powders since you could see through those powders. Here's a valvecover I did with a "chrome" basecoat and a translucent blue:
I don't have any pictures but it looks like the chrome paint pictured above except for maybe a little shiner but nothing like real chrome.
i used the chrome spray paint. me and my boy plan on riding the hell out of my bike. not sit and stare at it. who's gonna really tell the difference?. unless your gonna take it to shows, or try to sell it as "original". if your gonna ride the shit out of it, who cares? does it really need to be shiny?
