Used the Sally Hansen chrome nail polish

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Offline 72Chall77Doba

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Used the Sally Hansen chrome nail polish
« on: June 05, 2005 - 05:03:39 PM »
I read in one of the threads here about the sally hansen chrome nail polish but as of then nobody had tried it.
I tried it today on my sunvisor "arms?" and the little chrome trim on the sunvisors.

On the arms it looks great, sorta like an annondized alum color that matched perfectly.
On the little (bout the size of 1/2 of a dime) chrome pieces of trim on the corners of the sunvisor it looks OK, not great but ok.
It's not really a chrome mirrored type look.

But if your sunvisors arms are a little rusty like mine were, it's great for that area.




Offline BB73Challenger

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Re: Used the Sally Hansen chrome nail polish
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2005 - 10:28:06 AM »
Thanks for the tip - so that's how you get your car on the first page  :laughing: just kidding

Congrats on that by the way  :thumbs:
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Re: Used the Sally Hansen chrome nail polish
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2005 - 01:57:45 PM »
Have you guys ever heard of Al Clad Chrome?  Its a lacquer with ground aluminum in it that you airbrush over as high a gloss black enamel that you can get.  It looks just like chrome, but it will wear off with use so you may want to try clear coating it. In the pic I attached, you can see the bezels and the upper part of the Instrument cluster of my Rallye Dash for my Duster it looks just like chrome.  For the lower part of the cluster, Dusters had it painted black, but I like the way Barracudas were done in an aluminum (flat) finish, so if you just keep layering the Al Clad on heavily, it will lose the gloss chrome look, and come out eggshell aluminum, so that is what I did here for my Duster.  I am busy doing two more as we speak, one for my 68 Barracuda fastback, and one to sell later, on ebay.
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Re: Used the Sally Hansen chrome nail polish
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2005 - 02:01:30 PM »
ooooops, forgot to say, you can get Al Clad at most good hobby shops.  Modelers use it for model airplane finishes and such.  Its a bit pricy at $5- $8 per 2 oz bottle, but one bottle will do an entire rallye cluster.
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