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if its on the flats on the top and bottom take a razor and cut next to the defraction gradients so you have a cut off line and you can take a lighter to it and might get the underlayers to unbond from the plastic but min it sucks to do. I've tried strippers, different chemicals I got from some locals, thanks taxpayers, but the stuff is really on there one things for sure if you start to peel in the middle your screwed and need alot of paint to fill the area between where the chrome is and isn't. Its like there factory dipped and thicker in the middle. If your just going to paint them scuff with a red pad and then paint but make sure all the air bubbles and places debonded are all gone.
Now if its just peeling up top take your finger and brush it off as best as you can and then scuff and cut a piece of black vinyl pinstripe from a sign shop and apply, don't try taping against the gradient and the tops or bottoms because after you paint and try to peel it off it pulls the chrome, happened to me twice. I guess the thinner in the paint leaches under the chrome enough that the pinstrpe is adhered more than the chrome /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
I saw some new shiney paint stuff in my latest eastwood catalog but haven't ordered any yet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif I know the crap from advance and auto zone is just that and have the reflective qualities of polished dung, yea I saw the mythbuster episode where they got sh*t to shine but doesn't do much for headlights at night. If you get some let me know how it does I have two sets on the workbench I need to clean up and both have peeling tops inside.
if its on the flats on the top and bottom take a razor and cut next to the defraction gradients so you have a cut off line and you can take a lighter to it and might get the underlayers to unbond from the plastic but min it sucks to do. I've tried strippers, different chemicals I got from some locals, thanks taxpayers, but the stuff is really on there one things for sure if you start to peel in the middle your screwed and need alot of paint to fill the area between where the chrome is and isn't. Its like there factory dipped and thicker in the middle. If your just going to paint them scuff with a red pad and then paint but make sure all the air bubbles and places debonded are all gone.
Now if its just peeling up top take your finger and brush it off as best as you can and then scuff and cut a piece of black vinyl pinstripe from a sign shop and apply, don't try taping against the gradient and the tops or bottoms because after you paint and try to peel it off it pulls the chrome, happened to me twice. I guess the thinner in the paint leaches under the chrome enough that the pinstrpe is adhered more than the chrome /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
I saw some new shiney paint stuff in my latest eastwood catalog but haven't ordered any yet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif I know the crap from advance and auto zone is just that and have the reflective qualities of polished dung, yea I saw the mythbuster episode where they got sh*t to shine but doesn't do much for headlights at night. If you get some let me know how it does I have two sets on the workbench I need to clean up and both have peeling tops inside.
