RE: [CR]Chrome plating new frame & bike parts

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From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Chrome plating new frame & bike parts
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:14:06 -0700


Curt Goodrich wrote:
> You cannot braze chromed parts without serious risk.

That part is true, if we understand it to mean "you cannot braze on the chromed part of a chromed part". If a part is plated at one end, you can certainly braze the other end
> Bikes are always chromed after the frame is built.

Not strictly true - I've built frames where the rear triangles (S-stay/Dropout/C-stay subassemblies) were sent out to be chromed, then made into a frame. This way has some nice advantages, including that the rears are so much easier to polish and plate without being part of a frame. It does mean the front-most part of the c-stay and the top part of the s-stay (from brake bridge up) can't be chromed.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA