Fantachrome

artyfartymarty · Post by **artyfartymarty** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:07 pm

Has anyone used fantachrome?

Its a spray on metal finish...looks like chrome and you can paint anything...they have a completely chromed BMW pic on the website...and is said to be as durable as paint. Website says its a fraction of cost of electorplating. A chrome steering wheel???

I ask c's every chromer i spoke to about pitted chrome wanted me to remortgage my house to pay for it and then couldn't guarantee finish, saying it may end up more pitted than before rechroming.

Would be interested to find out if anyone has had it done, what it cost, what the finish is like and how durable?

Harko · Post by **Harko** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:16 pm

I havent used it but I sure wanna

Unbeleivable how they spray the water then hit it instantly with the chrome finish...

Watch candy gold coated chrome footballs for snoop dog

Smooth customs · Post by **Smooth customs** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:29 pm

Have heard good and bad reports on this stuff.

Dont think its as easy as they say.
That goes for a lot of products, its up to the person doing the work and the expectations of the finished product.

Want to try some for myself.

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:32 pm

i reckon SC is on the money, some of it doesn't really look like chrome looks more like polished alluminium but maybe that's the effect they were after

Smooth customs · Post by **Smooth customs** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:37 pm

Got an old presure pack of spray chrome somewhere!
Has to be 15 years old.

Looks great going the other way at 100km

artyfartymarty · Post by **artyfartymarty** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:16 am

SC,its nothing like the old rattle can of silver.check out the website, you too will want it

Smooth customs · Post by **Smooth customs** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:22 am

I know exactly what the material is expected to do.

But it can turn out like the old spray chrome, or something much worse.

Trust me, I look into almost every new material or process that comes along promising magic results with minimal experience ability and cost.

Spoke to a guy in the industry that spent thousands setting up and trying to achieve the desired results, so he could offer an alternative process to plating.

But he was unable to get "That look" on a regular basis.
He eventually gave it away.

If this stuff was the magic answer you would be seeing it everywhere on everything, especially seeing that several companies have been offering their versions of it for the last few years.

But go ahead and try it, I am interested in seeing the results you get.

CHOPPED · Post by **CHOPPED** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:19 pm

funny you say that sc had a guy over our side that spent thousands and thousands of dollars setting up to do this product spent most of his time in contact with the agents that were franchising the product he couldnt get the desired finish that they promised and couldnt get the product to stick permanetly ( if you chipped it you could grab an edge and peel it away) after 7 months of different aproches he has ended up in court trying to get back his money that he put in to set up worst thing has been the amount of customers coming back to abuse him and demand there money back because the product has failed

would have been a great product if it would have worked i had all sorts of ideas for it

blue ute · Post by **blue ute** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:03 am

There is still only one product that looks & lasts like chrome & that is chrome

Harko · Post by **Harko** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:07 am

They own the market

So they can charge the $$$$ like its chrome ..

I wish there was an alternative

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:49 pm

there is an alternative silver on the right cars and dechroming

rolled pans, shaved handles etc

oldnek · Post by **oldnek** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:48 pm

I looked at this system 5 years ago, 25g's for a francise.
Was $1450 to do a course with it, and if you where to be francisee this payment would be reimbersed. PPC were the company at the time if I remember correctly.

I had seriously looked at the options as I had other ideas, for its usethe end result looks great in glossy mags and promo parafanalia. But up close looks not like chrome and the product was not very durable as the claims they had made out.

I have seen many samples with the system, and with light buffing, finished pieces looked like they were tarnished, and if you were to polish, the product would come off. The companys answer to these questions were, they were done incorrectly, But it was the company whom supplied the samples. So go figure!
Material product was exepensive to buy as well.

John

artyfartymarty · Post by **artyfartymarty** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:02 pm

Sounds like the usual story, if it sounds too good to be true, thats because it is...and i had so many ideas for it...goodbye chrome steering wheel. now... how do you reproduce a steering wheel in billet aluminium?

CHOPPED · Post by **CHOPPED** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:58 pm

mate i run a full billet wheel on the ute there are heaps of different suppliers doing them just depends on what look your after