1927 Pontiac Chief Radiator Cap.

[Electricbutter]

Quick hunt at a local school yard with my MX-Sport and out pops a super toasted radiator cap who’d a thunk it. Love this stuff. Thanks for the look.

 

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[JeffInMass]

Such a cool find!

 

[ArfieBoy]

Definitely toasted! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very cool piece of automobile history!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[smallfoot]

That's cool!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

That's a beautiful find, there has to be some way to preserve it though?
Looks like it's made of white metal plated in zinc, unfortunately now that it's exposed to the air it's literally going to fall apart.
Dave

Restoration
Restoration means repair, renovation and chrome plating of old vehicle parts. Chrome plating of vehicle parts is very popular in spite of the fact that in vehicle industry it was only introduced about from 1925. Surface chrome plating creates mirror-like metalized coating, which significantly increases resistance to wear, corrosion and external influences, also renders excellent decorative appearance, making the vehicle look unique and inimitable.

Restoration Process
Restoration of vehicle parts consists of several complex mechanical and electro-chemical metal-processing processes. It starts from electro-chemical removal of the old plating. Complexity and duration of mechanical processing of surface and its preparation for chrome plating depend on condition of a part and corrosion depth; quite frequently we restore parts with ‘pits’. Chrome plating of a part to be restored comprises three metal-plating processes: copper plating, nickel plating and chrome plating.

The copper plating is used as an under-layer /prime plating/, which allows leveling small surface irregularities, dents and scratches, and provides surface shining. Before plating a part with nickel, its copper surface must be carefully polished. This is one of the most important steps to obtain the final chromed mirror-like plating. The nickel plating is used as intermediary protective layer before chrome plating. Then the nickel surface is chrome plated.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice piece of auto memorabilia.

 

[Electricbutter]

That's a beautiful find, there has to be some way to preserve it though?
Looks like it's made of white metal plated in zinc, unfortunately now that it's exposed to the air it's literally going to fall apart.
Dave

Restoration
Restoration means repair, renovation and chrome plating of old vehicle parts. Chrome plating of vehicle parts is very popular in spite of the fact that in vehicle industry it was only introduced about from 1925. Surface chrome plating creates mirror-like metalized coating, which significantly increases resistance to wear, corrosion and external influences, also renders excellent decorative appearance, making the vehicle look unique and inimitable.

Restoration Process
Restoration of vehicle parts consists of several complex mechanical and electro-chemical metal-processing processes. It starts from electro-chemical removal of the old plating. Complexity and duration of mechanical processing of surface and its preparation for chrome plating depend on condition of a part and corrosion depth; quite frequently we restore parts with ‘pits’. Chrome plating of a part to be restored comprises three metal-plating processes: copper plating, nickel plating and chrome plating.

The copper plating is used as an under-layer /prime plating/, which allows leveling small surface irregularities, dents and scratches, and provides surface shining. Before plating a part with nickel, its copper surface must be carefully polished. This is one of the most important steps to obtain the final chromed mirror-like plating. The nickel plating is used as intermediary protective layer before chrome plating. Then the nickel surface is chrome plated.

Gotta be something. Hair spray or epoxy? I’ll try something and post pictures. Thanks

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Gotta be something. Hair spray or epoxy? I’ll try something and post pictures. Thanks

I was thinking along the same lines as using an epoxy as well.
Maybe consider taking it to a body shop or a car restoration place and see what they'd recommend before you attempt a restoration that may potentially go wrong.

Just a thought... Dave

 

[islamoradamark]

thats different congrats on that unusual find

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Looks like that old indian overheated

Seriously thats an awsome find though. Congrats!

 

[A2coins]

Thats really cool I love stuff like that you dont see those very often. Hope you can find a way to preserve it...Well done.......Tommy

 

[Electricbutter]

I was thinking along the same lines as using an epoxy as well.
Maybe consider taking it to a body shop or a car restoration place and see what they'd recommend before you attempt a restoration that may potentially go wrong.

Just a thought... Dave

Couldn’t hurt to ask. Thanks

 

[against the wind]

Very Cool,,
Congrats

 

[BIGSCOTT]

Looks like that old indian overheated

Seriously thats an awsome find though. Congrats!

That's funny, guess he left his injun running

 

[smallfoot]

Cyanoacrylate/super glue. The thin kind, not the gel. The object is in danger of coming apart from just handling. I've worked with it with amazing results. Super glue in all those major cracks would lock it together pretty good. And slowly all those gaps will disappear with multiple coats until you fill them up. Its slow because of the wait in between coats. I've seen some real crevices disappear. You keep coating until you have built up a surface of super glue and when that hardens you can lightly sand the surface and then polish. This is just my own evaluation of this. In the shape it's in, I'm not sure anyone will advise you to try, but see what a car guy would say.