No Chrome Alternator for me either.

First of all, thanks to all of you that contribute and help out the rest of us with these kind of issues with our cars. That being said:
I had bought a chrome alternator this past weekend at Stafford Spring's swap meet. $10 bucks was too hard to pass up.
I promptly installed it, started the car and watched my ammeter charging at idle for the first time. Measured voltage at the battery at idle was 13.2.
At @ 1100 rpm the ammeter needle was pegged! Measured voltage at 1100 rpm was 18.1........
The regulator is (was) the mechanical points type. It blew in about 5 minutes.
I had a spare solid state for a pre 70' that connected just like the original and lasted twice as long as the first.....10 minutes.
This got me into reading every post I could find on this subject here at FABO and started some fear of fire feelings with my 44 year old Barracuda's wiring.
I have seen other posts where some have had the same issue with overvoltage and it seems to stem from these 85+amp alts.
Although I realize the stock ammeter was designed to see much lower amps (Does anyone know exactly what range the stock one is good for?)
I cannot for the life of me get the alt to NOT produce 18 volts at anything above 1100 rpm and pegging my ammeter.
I have bought the newer style 70and up regulator, wired it up and get the same high readings.
Threw the little 35 amp (guessing)jobbie back in with the new regulator and all is well except still not charging as well as I would like at idle....12.5. But 13.8 at 1100......

Mike