Re: [CR]Quik-Glo for renovating chrome

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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 06:05:57 -0700
Subject: Re: [CR]Quik-Glo for renovating chrome
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <01ee01c1ad7d$55828960$95b9403e@stewart>


Google found it just fine for me.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=quick-glo+chrome

BTW ... it's Quick-Glo, not Quik-Glo ... that might be why you had problems. Rivendell Bicycle Works carries it:

http://www.rivendellbicycles.com/Webalog/miscellaneous/

As does a number of sites listed on the Google Search above.

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Steven L. Sheffield stevens at veloworks dot com veloworks at mac dot com aitch tee tea pea colon [for word] slash [four ward] slash double-you double-yew double-ewe dot veloworks dot com [four word] slash


> From: "Stewart Barrie" <sbarrie@bellefield.worldonline.co.uk>
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:10:35 -0000
> To: <Gjvinbikes@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]Quik-Glo for renovating chrome
>
> A list member kindly mentioned that a product called Quik-Glo polish was
> good chrome. Google can't find it - anyone know if its available in the UK?
>
> Stewart Barrie
> London, UK
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Gjvinbikes@aol.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR]renovating chrome
>
>
>> In a message dated 2/3/02 8:01:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> garrison@efn.org
>> writes:
>>
>>
>>>> I've got a 79 Colnago with a lot of chrome on it. I plan to have it
>>> resprayed, but I've had a look at the prices for rechroming and its not
>>> cheap. Any tips for cleaning up chrome at home. I've got some light
> surface
>>> rust on the b/b shell?
>>>
>>> Try extensive use of the woven fibers of ferric sheep (steel wool).
>>>
>>
>> I have found that using even light steel wool on old chrome removes chrome
>> that would be best left in place. I use instead a product Dale
> recommended
>> to me, called Quik-Glo polish. Though it doesn't work at all on aluminum,
> it
>> removes the "bled" part of the rust spots from any chromed part, leaving
> the
>> remaining chrome intact.
>>
>> After polishing with Quik-Glo (which requires NO use of force or serious
>> pressure), I tend to coat really pitted chrome with boiled linseed oil to
>> keep the pits from re-spreading their destruction. Maybe something else,
> like
>> a wax, would work even better ?
>>
>> Only expensive rechroming Really works. Chrome is stupid on bicycles.
>>
>> Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC (30 miles on my Miyata fixed gear today)