Thread: What's under the chrome?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Good plating is a multi level job and as I recall they use copper plate over the base material. I know the EJ Chatsworth series uses a special plating process. They say it's the same one Roll Royce uses to plate car accessories.

Oddly enough a good friend of mine is the bookkeeper at a small company that plates the Flying Ladies for Rolls and the B's for the Bentleys! It is in Gloucestershire and their main product is making plastic security mirrors. I shall have to ask her if they do Jagger heads.

They also plate those Renault diamond shaped car badges.

Some of their specialist plating they contract out to a tiny two man (well husband and wife) company here in Cheltenham. I visited there once and it was like something from a Victorian horror story! Big vats of bubbling acid and the hum of electricity and the two people walking around in heavy rubber boots, gloves and overalls. Now I know where the bodies went...

Gareth