[Jon Salem]

Has anyone worked with the Inline tube chrome silver touch up paint? I’m thinking about touching up my dash bezel and wondering how well it will work. Just silver?


https://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-72-Chr...-/201239728392

[Greg Reid]

The best results I have gotten were with a product called Spaz-Stix...and it's cheap...

[tempest1964]

Greg, I am close to the point of painting my ‘64 Tempest dash . I will be painting the grey-bluei on the face of the dash and the chrome on the surrounding area. Can you tell me if you masked off the Spaz Stix to paint the other areas and did the tape affect the finish? I’m trying to decide which to paint first. The Spaz Stix or the dash blue.
Tony

[ponchjoe]

The pens work ok for touch up depending on your taste. I used a silver leafing pen from Hobby Lobby to do a couple.
I have also use the Spaz Stix when doing a full resto and it is good stuff for a driver.

Here is a pic of my 70’s bezel I touched up with the pen.

[indymanjoe]

^ that looks real good.

[Jon Salem]

The spazz sticks looks pretty impressive. Thanks for the info Greg. Jon

[jeff chmura]

X2 on the spaz-stik..... Works really well

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by tempest1964

Greg, I am close to the point of painting my ‘64 Tempest dash . I will be painting the grey-bluei on the face of the dash and the chrome on the surrounding area. Can you tell me if you masked off the Spaz Stix to paint the other areas and did the tape affect the finish? I’m trying to decide which to paint first. The Spaz Stix or the dash blue.
Tony

With the Spaz Stix, you paint the object gloss black and put the chrome on top of it.
If you look closely, you can see the masking tape on the panel I posted pics of. I did not want chrome peeking out of the edge of my woodgrain so I covered the previously-sprayed black on the edges with tape.
On my particular panel, I wanted to preserve the distinctive '68-only blue inside the gauge pods so I masked them off as well. Again, looking closely you can see the tape inside the pods.
All that to say, I would personally feel better about spraying the Spaz Stix last so that you don't have to pull masking tape off of it. It may be find though...I've never tried it.

[78w72]

Originally Posted by Jon Salem

Has anyone worked with the Inline tube chrome silver touch up paint? I’m thinking about touching up my dash bezel and wondering how well it will work. Just silver?


https://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-72-Chr...-/201239728392

that inline tube paint pen is the same thing as the silver leaf pen from testors or krylon... its just silver paint more intended for models & hobby crafts, doesnt look like chrome at all. but as was mentioned, its ok for touch up or if the chrome trim has worn off bezels.

[tempest1964]

Thanks for the response Greg. I think that makes good sense. I will spray the Spaz last. And hopefully I won't 'spaz out'! Lol

[Jon Salem]

Some comments on are eBay regarding the Inline Tube touch up pen:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-72-Chr...rk:1:pf:0#rwid

[Jon Salem]

Ponchjoe, What did you do about your dash pad? Just Dashes is nice butt expensive.

[TammyTA]

That Inline Tube pen is Testor's model paint pen. It has the name right on it. I bought one and was not at all happy. No shine to it at all.

[ponchjoe]

Originally Posted by Jon Salem

Ponchjoe, What did you do about your dash pad? Just Dashes is nice butt expensive.

It had a nice fitting cover on it that I painted SEM Landau black. It had a really good grain pattern on it, not like some of the “glossy” ones I’ve seen.

[Jon Salem]

Thanks. Krylon makes chrome paint looks pretty nice.

[Greg Reid]

None of the so-called chrome paint looks anything like chrome in my experience with the exception of 'Killer Chrome' from Alsacorp and the 'Spaz Stix' chrome paint. The Alsa is about 5 times the cost of the Spaz Stix and I got the same results.
Even those aren't 100% like chrome and can take a couple of tries to get right but they are very close. If you spray it yourself, you can get enough of the Spaz Stix to do several dashes for less than 10 bucks! http://www.activepowersports.com/spa...hoC0rgQAvD_BwE

[TAKerry]

For the fine line work on dash parts, radio bezels, a/c outlets and the like I use a silver leafing pen from michaels. It is not a shiny chrome look but was pretty easy to use and it does look good as a finished piece.

[JD311]

I was looking at a model car group,, they use a pen called Molotow liquid chrome. It’s available indifferent sizes. Search it or YouTube it. I was going to try it on an old model I had and maybe my dash if it turns out right.

[NeighborsComplaint]

Anyone try one of these mylar sets?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1964-1965-G...rd!60120!US!-1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/69-GTO-Temp...rd!60120!US!-1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1970-1972-P...sAAOSwD2tcFCHo