| |
Labor Day Putting down your wrenches or time for
MORE wrenching? 
Plenty of places to share. | | Click on image for the lowdown. 
====
| | | Forums66 Topics128,005 Posts1,055,263 Members48,418 | | Most Online14,466
Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
Lots of work on Brad's part ... pure enjoyment (and references) for you!
| | THANKS!
For helping keep this great
old truck web site
on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down
with Ads!  Again, thanks!
| | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 255 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 255 | My 38 has repop chrome bumpers that look nice - but have hellacious burrs where the ends were trimmed. China does not know when to sharpen their dies!! I want to deburr these edges so my hands don't get ripped to shreads when washing or waxing. After I deburr them, what should I put on these areas to protect the bare metal that will be exposed - and sorta blend in with the chrome? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Welcome to the world of far east reproductions. all of the reproduced bumper that I've seen are made this way. The problem is they didn't take the extra 5 minutes to deburr the parts. Had they done that one wouldn't be able to tell them from the original ones. My original bumpers have a nicely round over edge, you can still see some of the grinding marks where they deburred them.
If you grind of the chrome your have opened it up to rust for sure and the plating will probably begin to lift at those points in the near future.
DG
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | |
|
|
| |
