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Sealing decorative chrome plating
Is it necessary to put a sealing coat on a plastic part after the plating of decorative chrome?
Dan StoreyIonEdge Corp - Fort Collins, CO
2000
No. It's not only unnecessary, to my knowledge it is never done.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
(Ted is available for instant or longterm help)
2000
Dear Dan,
The sealing treatment is used when you obtain after metallizing on porous coating, such as the following metallizing procedures: arc spray, flame spray, plasma, HVOF. The sealing fill the small porous of the coating, but in your case, in my opinion is not necessary.
- Bucharest, Romania
2001
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