Hi Mark

Something I’ve considered is to have these items powder coated, as you can get chrome powder coating powder. You can mask items off and only powder coat sections – so might be possible with care to have chrome front face on black badges

I’m hoping to buy myself what’s required, for doing small items like the badges, sometime over the next month or so and give it a try myself, I’ll let you know.

Hi Mark,

There are different types of Powder Coating, and there are ones that don’t use very high heat levels – indeed I’ve seen them demonstrated with a powder coated Coke bottle, and those bottles use quite a low melt temperature plastic.

It will need some testing (trial and error) but I’m hopeful. I’ll let you know 🙂

Laurence

Out of interest Is that the ‘powder coating’ system that Frosts ( US based restoration products company) sell?

On a different front – heat cure powder coating – I have found Worcester Powder Coatings at Pershore, Worcestershire a really helpful and low cost solution if you have a batch of items needing blasting and powder coating. Worth travelling even IMHO.

Robin