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Spraying Chrome Top Coat Instructions – Cosmichrome. Our top coat is easy to apply. Sprays like normal automotive clear coat. Apply 2 medium wet coats. No champagne bubbles. Never turns yellow.

VU-15 Topcoat is a special blend that has been formulated just for the Cosmichrome application.

VU-15 is an acrylic urethane topcoat that will produce a harder finish as well as excellent adhesion.

Parts can be sanded after application if needed.

VU-15 is Excellent as a final clear coat for outdoor parts, DO NOT apply any other clear topcoats over VU-15 unless the VU-15 has dried for at least 2 days.

Excellent UV capabilities, better then most after-market clear topcoats on the market.

VU-15 has a richer gloss and feel once fully cured.

VU-15 applies wet and is very easy to lay down with no orange peel.

MIXING RATIOS
VU-15 TOPCOAT 100 Grams
V390 CATALYST 40 Grams
REDUCER None
Mix and wait for 10 minutes before spraying.

Please note that the metalized part MUST be dry and free from any moisture and water, we suggest that you bake at low temperature 95º to 100ºF / 35 C for 45 to minutes before you spray the topcoat. Any moisture and humidity between the metal and the clearcoat can result in very small moisture bubbles in the topcoat.

SPRAY APPLICATION
Adjust the spray gun as follows

PSI 29-35 at the gun handle, (2 bars)
Wide open fan
Needle valve open 1 turn.
(Please note that needle valve setting will vary with the object size)

Spray the metalized piece with one wet film in a criss-cross pattern to achieve an even thickness. Its better to apply less material on the first coat than too much.
Apply the second coat after 10 min have expired, leaving the part with a nice uniform wet shine and even color.
If you desire to spray a third coat you can do so after 10 min between coats.

Once satisfied with your application, allow the topcoat to stand for 30 min before introducing a bake cycle. Do not bake above 105º F. After the part dries a few days higher temperatures are fine.

BAKING VU-15 TOPCOAT
Baking the topcoat will accelerate the total hardness.
Allow top coated parts to baked for at least 1 hour at 100º F 40º C.

Don’t be alarmed if your bake 1 hour is complete and the parts are still soft, this is normal, once cooled down you will have less tackiness if not any at all.

Natural air dry for VU-15 topcoat

Once you have applied the two coats of topcoat allow for air circulation to be present in the environment for 30 min. Let the part stand for 2 to 3 hours to dry for light handling.

Do not use the sun to acelerate drying.

Please note that if you apply more than 3 coats of topcoat, allow more dry time before handling parts shipping or installing.

Students at the Tavastia Technical School in Finland with their Cosmichrome projects.

Perfect your skills under the guidance of our experts with our free training courses. We have courses
available at our Cleveland, Ohio location daily, free master classes at our Montreal, Canada facility, 2 training facilities are available in Finland and in several other countries. Haaga Vocational College and Tavastia Vocational College both offer Cosmichrome training as part of their surface treatment technology curriculum to their Finnish students. Students at both colleges can receive Cosmichrome training as part of their studies.

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American Idol chrome microphones

Have you noticed the American Idol Cosmichrome microphones? Perhaps you thought they were electroplated. In fact, they are sprayed with Cosmichrome.  Cosmichrome coated microphones appear on the hit TV regularly and have been used by the show for years. Several of our customers coat microphones for manufacturers and for the music acts themselves. The microphones can be tinted with our transparent dyes to produce custom chrome colors like gold or black.

Coating microphones and other musical equipment and instruments is a popular business for Cosmichrome users. Cosmichrome is the spray chrome of choice because it’s durable, looks exactly like real chrome plating, and won’t turn yellow over time.  If you need to have parts coated, feel free to contact us for a referral to one of our expert Cosmichrome installers.

U.S.Patent #8,187,677

This patented technology is available for use only under license agreement.

Feature 1

Cosmichrome tolerates high temperatures.
350ºF is now the upper temperature limit. You can now bake the topcoat at high temperatures. There is no longer the 100ºF/40ºC top coat baking limit. Cosmichrome will not get foggy if over heated about 100ºF when the topcoat is wet. The maximum temperature is 300ºF. Flash off the topcoat for 20 minutes and then bake at higher temperatures for faster and more durable curing. Be careful your part does not melt. Parts that won’t tolerate high heat themselves will still melt.

Feature 2

Improved base coat filling, hiding and leveling.
As easy as our base coat has been to apply, it is even easier now. It hides substrate defects better. Less sanding and prep work is needed. Also it is even more reflective than before. S

Feature 3

Worry free 100% Reliable and Permanent Silver Adhesion to Base Coat.
As many of you already know, Cosmichrome has always had the best silver adhesion in the industry despite some of our competitors’ claims. With this new technology you will achieve perfect silver adhesion every time regardless of how long you dry the base coat. In fact, the only danger is under drying. The silver will adhere to the base coat even if the base coat has cross-linked and hardened. Let it dry a day, a week or even a month. It does not matter. Adhesion is perfect and permanent. Double activation uses our same A22 activator. No need to heat the Activator water unless it is cold.. Mix at room temp and it is ready in only 10 minutes. If the water is cold let it warm up to room temperature for an hour.

Feature 4

100% Reliably and Permanent Topcoat Adhesion to Silver.
Using an adhesion promoting clear coat, the topcoat adhesion is reliable under nearly any humidity conditions in the paint booth. As soon as all the water is blown off the part it is immediately coated with the adhesion promoter. The adhesion promoter is single component and does not contain isocyanates. No mixing. This coating takes about one hour to force dry with moving air. Heat is not necessary but can be used. It is then coated with the normal VU-13.

Feature 5

Excellent Thermal Shock.
Cosmichrome holds together during extreme and rapid temperature changes on substrates that have high coefficients of expansion such as urethane plastics. Go from the car wash to sub freezing temperatures with no problems.

Feature 6

Fast drying topcoat.

Feature 7

Does not turn yellow over time! All competing spray chrome are plagued with yellowing. Cosmichrome patented technology has eliminated this issue.

What this all means is that you will be able to produce a more durable finish that is much less sensitive to variations in the application. You will also be able to coat parts that are exposed to much higher temperatures than with competing products..

You will no longer have to worry about how long you baked the base coat and at what temperature. The dryer the better.
The base resistant to runs.
Meets or exceeds many if not most OEM paint standards.
Similar process to what we developed for LG’s production line but even more durable.
Reduces or eliminates many top coat reactions to contaminants.
Less sensitive to moisture and humidity during application and in the environment.
Weather and humidity will cause fewer problems during the application.

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Basecoat won’t lay out?
Poor success rate.?
1 in 10 parts come out okay?
Neglected to check for satisfied references?
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Dozens of companies have switched from competing spray chrome products to Cosmichrome™.

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Tired of burn marks around holes?
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Silver fading away in a few months?
If you are disappointed with the results and durability of your competing system,
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The Cosmichrome work was done by Essex Customz of Grand Rapids, MI. The car is owned by Jake Moomey. It won the Chopped and Dropped award at the Good Guys Nationals Show in Columbus, Ohio this past summer. The bumpers, grill surround, tail light trim, window trim and wheels are all in Cosmichrome. The grill is traditional chrome plating.

Jake Moomey’s 1954 Chevy won the Best Chopped and Dropped award at the Good Guys Nationals in Columbus. Ohio in 2009.Jake has had other award winning cars and this one made the cover of World of Rods. It is also featured in the February 2010 issueof Street Rodder on page 60. The upper grill surround, bumpers, tail lights, and window trim are all Cosmichrome. The wheels are ingreen tinted Cosmichrome. The Cosmichrome was applied by Jake’s friend Jason Essex of Essex Customz in Grand Rapids, Michingan.

Cosmichrome was chosen by LG to meet the Europeans Union’s RoHS Cosmichrome was chosen by LG to meet the Europeans Union’s RoHS (reduction of hazardous substances) regulations.Cosmichrome is LG’s OEM chromium substitute beginning in Asia and Europe. We developed an new automated Cosmichrome process especially for LG. LG forecasts four million parts will be coated with Cosmichrome in the first year. Cosmichrome was the only spray chrome product that met LG’s quality standards. In fact Cosmichrome exceeded many of the LG standards by as much as 300%.