Powder coating

[martybose]

I powdercoated a bunch of throttle linkage pieces, since they always seemed to get lightly rusty over time.

Marty

[splat1955]

Hey Norm,

The bumper looks great man! And ya know, you'd said you'd thought it was past re-plating after you had sanded on it....but, I've seen way worse bumpers than yours go into plating and come out looking great. All those dips fill up all the scratches. The bumpers I have on front and back of mine now are worse than yours, and I wouldn't think twice about having them plated. But, I really like the look you got with that rustoleum paint....I may even give that a shot myself.

Tim, that came out great!

I got impatient, was going to wait til next weekend to pick a color but decided to try the same color I used on my teardrop rims and my head bolt caps. Rustoleum black night metallic. I notice on the trailer rims, it's a fairly hard finish once cured. So here's how it came out. I also painted the bumper bolt heads to match but did not sand them, just cleaned, primered and topcoated. I'll let it cure this week and bolt 'er in next weekend.

[Normspeed]

Thanks. If I had known it would come out that good I would have spent more time prepping it. I left about 40% of the chrome on there, just roughed it up so the paint would stick. I'm sure as time passes, more of that original chrome will flake and peel, and take the paint with it.

Someone, I think it was Tony Cipponeri, told me they call what I have "Korea Chrome". After the Korean war, some metals were still scarce so chroming wasn't very good. I could see as I ground on this bumper, there is chrome, and under that some nickel, but not a trace of copper. The nickel is thick in some spots and really thin in others. For now the paint will be fine, actually it will be the smoothest shiniest part of the whole car.

[Mr. Belvedere]

Seems as though I read someplace that it is not safe to sand chrome due to the health risks of inhaling chromium dust.

[Normspeed]

I think you're right. I did use a face mask when I did that part.

[Normspeed]

Here's how it looks on the car.

[splat1955]

Hey Norm....

Man, that bumper on the car looks great!! Honestly, I think that would be a pretty cool color for the car even....or any car. Looks good!

Oh, and yeah, I caught the " Oh, you ate one too." VH with Sammy if I'm not mistaken.

[Norm's Coupe]

Looks good Norm. What use to be on the tail gate? Looks like a license plate use to be there.

Mr. Belvedere,

If you listen to all the so called studies, it's not safe to:

1. Take a breath of fresh air.

2. Lead Paint will kill you. There's a lot of us old guys that had baby stollers painted with lead paint. All the woodwork in the houses were painted with lead paint. Everything painted was painted with lead paint. Wonder why we are still kicking around if it was so bad.

3. Eating salt is bad.

4. Eating fatty foods is bad.

5. Too much alcohol (over two drinks a day).

6. Smoking. (Guess someone forgot to tell George Burns that. He lived to be over 100 years old, and smoked 5 cigars a day).

7. Even taking medicine can be bad for you if you read the warning labels. In fact after reading some of those warning labels, you have to wonder why the doctor prescribed it. Is he trying to kill you? Guess thats one way of curing our ills.

All these studies and news people have got people scared to walk to the bath room today. We might trip and hit our head and kill ourself when going to the bathroom. Guess we better hold it from now on. Of course if we do that, our bowls and or kidneys would burst and that wouldn't be a good thing either.

The small amount of chrome dust Normspeed may have taken in isn't going to hurt him, especially if he had a dust mask on. We gotta do what we gotta do. If we listen to the news people and all of these studies we'll all be living in a bubble.

P.S. Back in the day, we also sanded all that lead paint and got that dust. Very few people wore so much of a dust mask while doing so. Yet, we're still kickin. Maybe we should all wear space suits when working on our cars today because things must have changed since the old days.

[Dennis_MN]

couldn't help but pass on a bit of hard of hearing that came up with my wife this morning.

The morning news said that "cat scans" could cause cancer.

I thought I heard "gas cans" and I asked my wife what the heck was so dangerous about gas cans.

Dennis

[Normspeed]

Looks good Norm. What use to be on the tail gate? Looks like a license plate use to be there.

Original owner got a ticket for obstructing the license plate with a trailer hitch, so they screwed the tag to the tailgate. Some time later, the car got a really bad repaint, probably a backyard job, and they didn't even take the plate off when they sprayed it. Some day I'll need to take off all that crappy paint and do it right. After I'm retired.

I do wonder about all the stuff I inhaled over the years, everything from bondo dust to brake dust, to who knows what. Wish I had known about the brake dust and how bad it is for you, but I didn't and that's that. The recent hysteria over lead in toys seems kind of over the top, since like Norm says, all of us grew up in the days when lead paint was used on everything, and most of us don't seem to have lead poisoning.

Dennis, I'll try to avoid gas cans! LOL. Maybe your hearing is going bad from those lead toys you chewed on as a kid.

[Norm's Coupe]

Norm,

Don't think I've ever heard of anyone getting a ticket because of the hitch being there. The cop that gave him that ticket must have had a bad day, that day.

As for all the warnings on stuff, you know the old saying. "A little information is good, but too much information can be dangerous." In todays "Information Age" from the news media and Internet, we're all in danger. Sort of like a guy I know locally. Every time he gets a sniffle he goes on the medical sights on the Internet. To listen to him, he has every kind of illness you can think of, "cause that's what it said on the Internet medical sight he looked at.":rolleyes:

[Normspeed]

The rest of that story is, the original owner was a real looker, according to her son who sold me the car. The officer used the bumper hitch infraction as an excuse to pull her over so he could get a closer look and maybe get a date, or whatever. When the lady didn't cooperate with his amorous advances, he got ticked off and wrote her a ticket.