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.
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chrome plated plastic
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1) Weight 2) Price
Might it be possible to re-use the old plughole?
Owain
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I agree it sinks!
-- Cameron
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Magnet?
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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.
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The plated metal is usually brass or bronze, neither of which are magnetic, unlike car wings. Well, some bits of car wings.
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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.
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But none of mine. :-)
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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.
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Reliant Robin!
Andrew
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I guess Land-Rover of a certain age.
Owain
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Bond Bug (in restoration) and SS1 (3 of)