Great responses so far,
Like it has been said before, Chrome done well is not a problem for most steel tubing. But done poorly can cause many issues. Modern thin gauge steel tubes don't stand up to the polishing well and are more affected by the acids involved. Chrome can pit and rust too and basically I stay away from it for the environmental factors involved. My grandfather who I never knew owned a giant plating factory in Alabama and later after it was sold it became a superfund EPA cleanup site, so I figure my family has done enough damage through plating. I use stainless drop-outs and these work really well. Only thing for me is that they are all of the modern plug in or plug on type and personally It takes away from the craft of attaching drop-outs but I think the benefits sometimes outweigh the downsides. I have made stainless drops from scratch before but that is some big time work.
Dave Bohm Bohemian Bicycles
http://www.bohemianbicycles.com/
pic of stainless drop-out ----- Original Message ----- From: Rich Rose To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: RE: [CR]American Framebuilders' Antipathy to Chrome
Plus I've always heard that chrome is not a good thing to do on a steel bike. Waterford has a spiel about this on their website. Even so, what would be wrong with (polished) stainless steel dropouts? Richard (my dropouts are chipped too) Rose (Toledo, Ohio)
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Richard M Sachs Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:47 PM To: kurtsperry@netscape.net Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]American Framebuilders' Antipathy to Chrome
there isn't any antipathy. it's related to the lack of efficient and quality platers who can, year in and year out, offer consistant work at a reasonable cost. in europe, the epa/osha type standards are different enough (from ours) that chrome, on steel frames, continues as a feature. also, over 'there' no one does just one frame; a typical situation would see a frame shop hand over dozens of pieces simultaneously. doing it on a one-frame-at-a-time basis is cost ineffective. e-RICHIE chester, ct
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