Rechroming bumpers

[oscar]

    Nah you can't see your face.   After learning a few tricks from Agents Mulder and Scully from my X-philia days I learned too how people can accidentally give too much info away by taking photos of shiny objects or if it's a photo of a person, they're spectacles or eyes can act as mirror to see who's the photographer.  But my computer has never been up to the same level of sophistication that the FBI gave Scully and Mulder.  Eg, mine doesn't make freaky electronic sounds when I ask it to "zoom in" and "depixelate".

Re the rust, one of my earliest worst ebay purchases was an upper rear set of bumpers that looked darn good in the photos but were flaking rust on the inside, especially opposite where the rubber goes.  It's hard to believe they had such a good finish.

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[s class]

How bad are yourbumper brackets - can they not be media blasted and recovered?  I have a good spare but I think postage to perth will be rather prohibitive

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[CraigS]

I could give you some matching trailing arms from a Tatra that would suit that ! Looks like a coat of zinc and a thin strip of rubber between the parts might be a good idea.

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[John Hubertz]

Sadly, all German cars of this era appear to be afflicted by a disposable philosophy vis-a-vis corrosion.

I can only assume bad habits emerged during the immediate postwar period when recycled scrap was the only steel available - and IMHO suppliers particularly learned that they could meet the letter of the specification without spending full mine-to-foundry pricing for new materials.

It would be interesting to know the whole story - ethics, owner satisfaction and many other issues pop into mind.

If intentional, for shame.  If not, an interesting caveat on the price of conflict.

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[nathan]

Tim truly has mad mad quokka skills.  For those non wa people, we have a second hands goods paper called the quokka.  tim seems to know whats in it from a-z and found this guy in fremantle who had a 70s-80s mercs wrecker in his backyard!  PBs eyes lit up when he saw an intact  bumper - for some reason he declined my offer of a rusted to hell one the week prior!

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[TJ 450]

That will not only be some serious eye candy, but it will be very practical. I'm surprised it wasn't at least zinc plated at the factory.

Tim

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