Does anyone hate chrome plated plastic as found on plugholes etc ? Replacing a sink etc, I want metal parts like the one I take out. How can you detect this before you buy ? I think it stinks.
Simon.
chrome plated plastic
Jun 13, 2005
11 Replies
1) Weight 2) Price
Might it be possible to re-use the old plughole?
Owain
I agree it sinks!
-- Cameron
Magnet?
Good idea. Takes me back to testing second hand cars with a magnet in a cloth, to see if the wing was made entirely of papier mache. Simon.
The plated metal is usually brass or bronze, neither of which are magnetic, unlike car wings. Well, some bits of car wings.
Unless you are purchasing a second-hand McLaren F1 !
I wonder if some type of metal-stud-finder would do the trick. Or wander round the bathroom section of B&Q with your metal detector and headphones on. I tried tapping the plugholes, but they sound the same to me. Simon.
But none of mine. :-)
A good metal detector probably will, if properly set (which is going to be fun). There is metal there, in a continuous sheet, which will probably make the stud finder go off regardless.
Reliant Robin!
Andrew
I guess Land-Rover of a certain age.
Owain
Bond Bug (in restoration) and SS1 (3 of)
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