WRT the conversation below, I would be pretty certain that this damage was from the inside and caused by residual fluids from the plating process -- just because it happened to us.
About 1970, I took Susan's beautiful but beaten-up Atala (cast lugs with lots of windows) to a motorcycle custom shop for metallic blue paint and new chrome. It took months. We enjoyed it for years. Until the right seat stay rusted through. I happened to have a crashed frame with the right stay profile, and brazed it in, but, goodbye to the chrome... I think I'll restrict my rechroming to fork ends...
harvey "chastened" sachs
mcLean va
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The seller claims this is from hanging the bike with water in the frame.
What makes you say this is the result of a poor re-chroming job? I
don't doubt you, but am wondering. I could see water getting into
the chain stay from the BB, but not the seat stay. Unless it got in
through that tiny little vent hole while hanging during a flood:)
Thanks
Dan Kasha
Providence RI (glad my Peugeot PR10L does not have chrome stays:)
Greg wrote:
If you'd like to see what can happen from a poor re-chroming job, take a
look
at the Rossin that Bob Freeman has for sale on eBay right now:
http://ebay.com/