10-30-2016, 01:20 PM
(10-29-2016, 08:42 AM)rleete Wrote: What a crock of *****. It's NOT new, it's called electroforming, and my company has been doing it for 70 years. Hell, those chrome bumpers on the cars of the 1950's? ELECTROPLATED.
What is new is the hype that it somehow creates something better than before.
Yes it is quite similar to electroplating, but with a twist. It's built up on a plastic mandrel which normally will not accept electroplate material. The auto industry chrome plated on plastic, but only after they painted it with copper paint.