Brian, I understand that you can't plate after paint, but can you mask a fork after polishing and only plate those areas? I think probably not, but I don't know. I haven't seen a pic of a Mod. B fork that doesn't have the bottom part of the forks and the tips without chrome.
As I said my fork does not have fender eyelets and I have also not seen a pic of an early Cinelli without them. By deduction I am assuming that the eyelets were removed (damaging the chrome) the steerer tube threads and fork crown were masked (you can see where the tape was wrapped around top and bottom of the tube) and then the fork was stripped by blasting. It looks like sand or glass blasting and not walnut by looking at the tube through a loupe. The fork was then resprayed.
Am I on the right path or nuts?
Victor bikeCSI Penner, Vancouver BC
> From: "brianbaylis@juno.com" <brianbaylis@juno.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:03:52 GMT
> To: vjp@telus.net
> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]Chrome on Cinelli fork?
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> victor,
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> The typical way to chrome something like that Cinelli fork is to polish the
> areas that are to be shiny, plate, then prep for paint (masking exposed chrome
> and sanding or sandblasting the unpolished chrome. Sometimes they will dip
> just the end needing plating, but not usually in the case of a fork that has
> plated tips also.
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> Plating cannot be done after an object is painted.