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Originally Posted by BCreekDave
Did you rechrome the gauge bezel or silver it?
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The originals are vacuum metalized... like a plastic potato chip bag then it is blacked out.
I use silver leaf put the glue down then burnish silver leaf onto the surface.
I couldn't get the wood grain off without fear of damaging it or I may have sent it out to have it metalized.
As an aside the original 69 tire pressure decals are not on foil or on paper they are on vacuum metalized paper - which appears to be wet strength metalized paper. It was originally developed for beer bottle labels thus it has wet strength in the paper.
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