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Originally Posted by EZY PEEL
I wonder if anyone has ever considered cadmium or nickel plating the body instead of painting? Good corossion resistance at a fraction of the weight.
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You could hard chrome too but since when does metal weigh a fraction of the weight of paint? E.g. let's assume a paint density more or less that of water, which is 1000kg/cu.m vs say steel at 7800kg/cu.m or gold which is more than twice that, etc. Would have to be a pretty light metal to be lighter than paint!