Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 10:05 AM, Grégoire Vandenschrick wrote: > I would like to know if someone has ever silver chromed this kind of > piece, > or if someone know where I could have this done, all advice welcome. I'm > searching real silver-chroming, not paint it in silver, this is quite > different ;-). I also know ther is some differences and > incompatibilities > between the metal and the type of chroming (explaining so the > difference of > wheigt between the black and silver optics), is it possible to overcome > this? a friend of mine who is a metal sculptor tells me that just about anything metal can be chrome-plated and that it's not terribly expensive. many auto body shops are capable of doing it--though, as cars contain less and less chrome, they're doing it less and less often. also, many machine shops--i'm not sure what you'd call them in belgium--can do it. best, brad daly - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=190241 "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg "Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation. But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves." --Barbara Ehrenreich - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html