Doug Fattic wrote:
> Peter, Dale and list,
>
> Peter you are an amazing source of bicycle knowledge and I always read your
> posts which add substantially to my own knowledge. However, I would like to
> modify your comment that sandblasting can easily remove chrome. I have
> sandblasted all kinds of chrome plating on bicycle frames while refinishing
> them with varying degrees of results getting it off. Some, like you say,
> just flakes off right away. Sometimes part goes and part stays - which is a
> real problem because what stays is much harder than the steel underneath
> which is now going away faster with blasting than the chrome that is
> staying. And sometimes the triple plated (copper, nickel, chrome) chrome
> jobs like on the old Paramounts just isn't going away without real force.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've sandblasted three frames only, just the dropouts and a few inches up the fork blades and stays. In all cases the chrome came off easily. But that's a very small sample and I should have said so.
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Peter Jon White
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