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Restoring - General discussions that span across many different groups of years and models => Parts => Topic started by: sparky65 on June 02, 2010, 10:51:02 PM
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So I was quoted $350 to get the horn ring for my 67 re-plated. The $75 reproduction is looking very tempting. Any suggestions / warnings?
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Haven't used a repro one of those. Might be worth trying, may need some tweaking to get it to fit right.
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Keep you eyes peeled.
I just bought a PERFECT NOS one for my '66 off Ebay for $125, still in the 1966 dated, browned, Ford Box.
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I just realized I have an extra NOS one ('67 style). Send me an e-mail if you'd like to discuss.
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I just realized I have an extra NOS one ('67 style). Send me an e-mail if you'd like to discuss.
I got another quote for $160 to have mine re-chromed. That seems more reasonable so now I am wondering why the big price difference between the two.
I think i am going to take mine to carlisle this weekend and match it up to some repros and maybe get a few more quotes to have it re chromed.
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I'd be very careful about price hunting on re-chroming a piece with a lot of detail like the horn ring. There are lots of areas that could easily be rounded and over-buffed. It's not as straight forward (no pun intended) as something like a bumper.
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I'd be very careful about price hunting on re-chroming a piece with a lot of detail like the horn ring. There are lots of areas that could easily be rounded and over-buffed. It's not as straight forward (no pun intended) as something like a bumper.
Charles,
Your right on the money. I wondered around Carlisle with my horn ring. I think there was a total of 4 diffrent platters there. I asked each for a price and examined the pieces they had there. Almost everyone was round $300 except one guy who gave me a price of $150 and then told me he could easily beat the price of the other guys by %30. He had a few parts on display and as I started to closely examine them I noted a few things. One piece he obviously ground the pits out and never leaved the surface. Another piece there was some obvious pitting on a front face that got plated over. Another piece I found the sharp edges were rounded over. He even pulled out a piece that some one was coming to pick up that was similar. He didn't even try to fix the pitting in the detail areas. I hope that customer inspects his pats closely. No one had a repro 67 horn ring to compare but I did check it to a 66 and I think the repros are probably good enough for now. Very simple to change later if I have some spare cash.
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Just like always......... you get what you pay for ;) ;