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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Miami fl
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Painting mirrors? Door handles
Anybody know where I can find some sport style mirrors that aren't chrome? I would like to get them powder coat black and PC won't stick to chrome.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: daytonabeach
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
sandblast and remove the chrome in less than ten minutes
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Collector of Projects
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Las Vegas
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
I had my door handles blasted and painted with Cerakote ... not installed yet but they came out looking great...
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Location: Mt Airy, MD
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
I sandblast chrome and stainless, then paint or powder coat with no issues. Just gotta rough it up. The most durable powder coat I have ever experienced is sandblasted aluminum powder coated. I think painted sport mirrors will look like crap. It's just the kind of mirror that is supposed to be chrome. Europeans started the monochromatic paint schemes and the whole less chrome look that American stuff fell in line with. I don't now who started calling these sport mirrors, but I consider the rallye style mirrors that they started putting on cars of this era to be sport mirrors and those belong painted body color.
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Miami fl
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
I'm not doing body color, the truck is white and the grill and bumpers and wheels are black, just want the mirrors and the door handles to match.
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
I wondered if you wanted monochromatic or a color like white or black. But still, not sure how good that will work. They are both chrome now and match, right? I'm not sure if you'll be able to adjust your mirrors if they're powder coated
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Location: Berea, KY
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
Did you ever paint your mirrors? I'm thinking of doing something similar and would like to see some pictures of other painted 71-72 sports mirrors.
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Miami fl
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Re: Painting mirrors? Door handles
Trucks actually finally getting painted this week, 20 months later.. pictures soon.
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