My 41 has some small areas of rust and pitting in the bumpers after 80 years on the road. Bumpers are still in excellent shape and re-chroming not needed. I found a product called Liquid Chrome. The brand is Molotow (what?? Molotov???) and comes as a marker with different tip sizes, 1 mm, 2 mm and 4 mm. I found it at Hobby Lobby and of course available online from many vendors. It is applied by slightly pressing the tip over the area you want to cover and "liquid chrome" begins flowing and fills up the defect. It dries shiny and can fill up some small pitting and the like. These photos show the simple steps I followed: The repaired area could be called a "10 footer" before and now is may be a "5 footer", definitely better but imperfect of course. Photos have the ability to magnify imperfections so keep that in mind when looking at these close ups. More important, this repair will protect from rust to grow. Good deal for a well preserved driver and cost is only12 dollars for a marker.



Multiple 1 - 4 mm pitted and rusted spots




I used the abrasive tip of a dupli-color tough up paint to remove the rust and clean the metal. I did not touch the several small bubbles because that will end up requiring more work that I am willing to have done at this time (i.e. re chroming).



I used a 2 mm tip Liquid Chrome marker. This brand is called Molotow



Photo after job completed. I still have to polish and that will make the chrome finish more uniform. Many of the visible lines are light reflection. It looks very fair even on close eye exam

 

I bought some of those markers for the same reason and have NOT tried them yet.
So you like how it turned out?
-peter

 

Well it's amazing what some regular old silver paint will do- for a while... I don't know about that pen, but it looks like just a regular paint pen like I used on the A/C bezels on my Cutlass. Anyway, years ago I bought some very rusty and poor condition SSIII wheels at a swap meet for really cheap- just wanted them for rollers. Later I bought a 70 Vista Cruiser that needed some cheap driver wheels. I cleaned all the rust I could off the wheels, some of the chrome had actually peeled off and below the flaked/worn off chrome was brown colored rusty steel. I took some shiny silver paint and sprayed it on those areas. While it was still wet, I wiped the paint off the existing chrome that was left, so only the rough steel was now silver. You wouldn't believe all the compliments I got how good those wheels looked, yes they were as you say 5 footers. If you got down and looked at them you could see they were far from pristine.

 

That Liquid Chrome was recommended by someone on this site years ago. Sorry, can't remember who. But I bought it and had good success with it on interior stuff.

 

^^^THIS. Despite the name, it's just silver paint in an applicator pen. If you're happy with the results, great. There is no way to "repair" chrome other than to strip it an replate the parts. Plating is copper, nickel, then chrome metal in solution, that is caused to deposit on the base metal with an electric charge. That can't be done from a paint pen. Just be aware of what you're getting and what to expect. Definitely don't ever touch those areas with any chrome polish.