fridge wire shelf paint

[SteveP]

The plastic coating on the fridge wire shelving is starting to lift, does anyone know of a DIY plastic coating?
Plasticote only do enamel and radiator paint i think?

 

[Sproket]

Hmm ! would this paint do ?
Or maybe something like This ?

 

[ValA.]

I tried doing our shelves - they weren't plastic coated, but chrome, and the chrome had pitted and flaked and come off completely in places. What a job! I tried painting them with a spray, which looked like a dogs dinner, and ended up stripping them with Nitromors and then caustic soda, to get off the paint that I'd tried. Someone then recommended that Coca Cola would remove the plating, which it did, and then I sanded them with increasinly fine grades of emery paper. I then painted them by hand with a metallic silver finish, several coats, and now they look really good - but unfortunately the ends which fit into the slots in the plastic sides of the fridge now leave rusty marks. Next job is to sand those ends again, repaint them, and then probably use something like clear nail polish (too girly, OK........ anyone any better suggestions..........?!) to seal just the very ends to stop them rusting!
Mind you, to buy replacement shelves would have cost a small fortune - but getting them back to what I considered clean and 'food-friendly' was not easy!

 

[PhilFraeHowMill]

Hi Val
Have a look in your local Yellow Pages for a elecro plating company, they will re chrome your shelves and they will be like new (maybe better), they will do them as a batch with other items, so it works out reasonably cheap.
Phil

 

[SteveP]

thanks all for the replies, i like the plastic coating that sprocket has left a link, but with primer, VAT and p&P, makes a whooping£25 DIY fix!

 

[ValA.]

Hi Val
Have a look in your local Yellow Pages for a elecro plating company, they will re chrome your shelves and they will be like new (maybe better), they will do them as a batch with other items, so it works out reasonably cheap.
Phil

Thanks Phil - good idea, but we'll have to bring the shelves back from France as the caravan is now stored there! Hence the DIY solution of nail polish! I might get a price from an electroplater (there are several locally) and see if it's worthwhile, though! We could then bring the shelves back with us next time we go away.

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

Try
http://www.thecaravanspecialists.co.uk/
I believe it was them that had replacement wire shelves for ovens. They may also do the same for fridges.