Beautifying a 1979 Peavey Combo

Jul 16, 2007 4 Replies

Minor repair to it but as it has a 15 inch Black Widow speaker etc, the owner was thinking of giving it a make-over. I went to my local electro-plating firm but to do the 8 corner protectors, and 4 other bits of rust spotted chromed steel would have been 50 GBP / 100 USD - bit too much . Hampshire Electroplating, Empress Rd, Southampton, I was there when a vintage car owner was picking up his perfect mirror-finnish chromed headlights that looked like those American Fireman's helmets. Anyway, anyone any other ideas other than replacing with new to disguise this rust spots. ? I tried on a similar bit of scrap , rusted chrome steel fluxing, heating and lead/tin solder but it did not flow and removed what chrome was remaining. Anyone tried chrome-plating , do it yourself ?


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Phone Peavey, 01536 461234, ask for spares and see if they have any in stock. Or by some aftermarket ones from CPC or similar

Ron(UK)

This may get better response in alt.guitar.

I briefly tried a JC Whitney kit, but it didn'r seem to be doing much on a car bumper. It might work though. Like we used to do on cars, wax on, wax off. Rub Rub Rub.

greg

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