Black Chroming Badges
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Black Chroming Badges
Is it possible to have the stock badges black chromed? I wasn't sure if the black chroming process would work on the plastic badges. If so, has anyone done this yet?
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I think Booz007 ( or something similar to that screen name) has his badges blacked out, but I don't think he did it with the black chrome process. I think his turned iout great! I was looking at his the other day, as I am thinking about "blacking out" my truck as well.
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Yeah i just spray painted mine black. I just got another set of badges im going to fool around with. Im thinking about getting some of this VHT niteshades stuff to try. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Spray...QQcmdZViewItem
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Hey Boz, since we're working on having the same truck anyway, I was wondering... Did you take your badges off and put them back on or did you just tape around them? I think I would like to 1/2 debadge and go 1/2 black. I wanna get rid of the Big Horn Edition and the SLT ones and maybe keep the rest. I might get rid of all of them other than the Cummins emblems - I dunno. I do know the chrome's gotta go, one way or the other. My bumpers will be here today or tomorrow and I'm supposed to meet that guy to trade grilles with.
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From what I recall, Black Chrome is more like powdercoating, so it has to be baked afterwards... Plastic probably wouldn't like that baking process is you know what I mean.
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Hey Boz, since we're working on having the same truck anyway, I was wondering... Did you take your badges off and put them back on or did you just tape around them? I think I would like to 1/2 debadge and go 1/2 black. I wanna get rid of the Big Horn Edition and the SLT ones and maybe keep the rest. I might get rid of all of them other than the Cummins emblems - I dunno. I do know the chrome's gotta go, one way or the other. My bumpers will be here today or tomorrow and I'm supposed to meet that guy to trade grilles with.
I took em off. I very carefully measured and marked where they were supposed to be, then took them off and painted them. I did the same as youre talking about, half debadged and half black. My tailgate is clean, but i left the badges on the door and the Cummins badge.
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Cquestad, not picking on you man. Your first post didn't really offer any info or help. Most people say the black chroming process is completely different. So, you've confirmed the plastic can also be black chromed as well?
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There are two ways to "black chrome". The powdercoat "simulated" black chrome would not work. But...the real black crome is the same as chrome...but the nickel has something else in it to blacken the color. Minimal heat...and goes over the copper base coat the same as regular chrome.
So I was told...
So I was told...
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There are two ways to "black chrome". The powdercoat "simulated" black chrome would not work. But...the real black crome is the same as chrome...but the nickel has something else in it to blacken the color. Minimal heat...and goes over the copper base coat the same as regular chrome.
So I was told...
So I was told...
Thanks for the info man.