It takes a serious specailty shop to do emblems and small parts; definitely not
the same
people that do bumpers and larger parts.
There's only one shop in TN; it's in Nashville...maybe only a few dozen in the
US that
can do it right. There's got to be a few in CA but may not be too easy to find.
Mark Noakes
On Sun, 18 May 2003 16:56:14 -0600, "Blaine & Maggie Dumkee" wrote:
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> My shop tells me the way the letters are formed the fender emblems that when
> they polished them after plating the sharp edges and detail will disappear.
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> I'm not sure if this will work over email, but the GMC letters have sloped
> sides and part way down the slope there is a flat spot like I have tried to
> illustrate above. The falt spot is probably 1/16 th of an inch wide.
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> Jim did you have your GMC fender emblems re-chromed? If so, are you happy
> with the results and do you remember how much it was to have they
> re-chromed?
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> Blaine
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> -----Original Message--/---
> From: dcvjrv@covad.net [mailto:dcvjrv@covad.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 4:43 PM
> To: Blaine & Maggie Dumkee; oletrucks
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Re-chroming GMC Fender Emblem
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> Blaine,
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> I had all of the small stuff rechromed on 58 GMC and I don't think any of
> the detail was lost.
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> Jim V.
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> At 03:26 PM 05/18/2003 Sunday, Blaine & Maggie Dumkee wrote:
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> I assumed when my truck when in for paint that I could have my GMC fender
> emblems re-chromed on my 59 GMC. The shop painting my truck says that there
> is too much detail on these emblems to send them out for chroming and this
> detail would be lost when they are polished.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with having small detailed parts re-chromed?
>
> I have purchased a few used sets now and cleaned a pair up that look OK, but
> I would still like to have a re-chromed set.
>
> Blaine Dumkee
> Fort Smith NT
> Canada
> http://photos.yahoo.com/bdumkee
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> Jim V.
> 1958 GMC Suburban Carrier Pickup (Cameo style) - V8 Hydramatic
> http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/mi2/jrvvehicles
> dcvjrv@covad.net
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