Mark Poore wrote:
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> Having owned a two Cinelli's back in the day I had always wondered about the
> half painted seat lug. The reason Chuck gives,You cannot plate chrome on an
> inside diameter under a certain dimension, sounds good, but if this is so
> why is the seat lug on my Rauler chromed and beautiful into the tightest
> areas.
Not impossible just very difficult. A complex area like the seat lug is very hard to buff inside all the nooks and crannies before chroming. I have a Dave Moulton that has the three main tubes painted deep Atlantic dark blue metallic and everything else is chrome that is close to perfect. But Dave went to the trouble to buff all the tubes and lugs before he brazed them together!
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, Southern California