36 replies to this topic

[Davis]

lmao. i think it's actually a sport not a crime.

[Big Man]

Could smuggle in a car but no way 5kg wrapped in a condom inserted where the sun don't shine!!!!!!!!

[mini_kev]

Was the delorian not illegal because it was used to smuggle drugs? Sure I read that somewhere.

As for a chrome car i will ask at work tonight as i have no idea, common sense says yes as it would be like driving a miror in bright sunshine however common sense is not always applied in the law!

BM

Nah i think the guy who owned delorean was a drugs smuggler and the delorean company was his legitimate front for his illegal activities, like a laundering thing i guess. That would explain why it was such a C**p car aswel because hardly any effort was put into the design as it wasn't a proper design project if that makes sense.

[paulrockliffe]

I'm sure the info you want is on wikipedia, but what happened was that the Delorian lost money hand over fist and the owner tried a massive drugs run to re-finance the company. There was a documentary about it on a few months ago, pretty interesting!

[nurseholliday]

Fantachrome, while not really chrome, is a spray-on, water-based paint that adds a layer of metal to your object of choice (car, house, children) and is said to look and feel just like chrome. While the process requires prep work like laying proper base coats, Fantachrome will work on almost any material, including wood, metal, plaster, glass, plastic, fiberglass, ceramic, cement, polystyrene, clay and stone. You can essentially chrome anything—like King Midas Fast and the Furious edition

Yeah but it'll never stand up to proper chrome plating. It may look and feel like chrome on smaller parts, but over a whole shell the finish won't look anywhere near as good.

We have got one vat big enough for a whole shell, it's for when we chrome a really big batch of parts.

[paulrockliffe]

We have got one vat big enough for a whole shell, it's for when we chrome a really big batch of parts.

Ace, make sure if you chrome a mini that you video it for us!

[nurseholliday]

Was thinking about the logistics of this today.

I think it's impossible at my work, even though we have a chrome vat big enough.

BMH (or whichever supplier) would need to supply it unpainted, and greased to preserve the metal. Then it needs to get to Liverpool to the factory, so I'm assuming wrap it in f***loads of greaseproof wrapping and bubble wrap then on flatbed or in artic. Once here it couldn't be degreased in the normal trike tank so we'd have to empty a hydro tank and put trike in there. Then it needs to be chemically cleaned, and limed, which would probably take a couple of days. Then the biggest snag: it needs to be vac-blasted. And we don't have vac-blasters the size of spray booths!

I think all of the above is one reason very few cars have been chrome-plated. It's a logistical nightmare, which would probably involve multiple sub-contractors and crazy ways of protecting the shell during transit from one process to another. And all that means it would be exxxpensive! I'm guessing over £10k.