Victor Penner wrote:
I picked up a mid/late 70's Proctor Townsend (Brad Proctor and Bob Townsend, are retired, from framebuilding, Canadian bike makers) frame and fork last week. I showed the frame/fork to Bob Townsend and mentioned replating the scuffed up fork, to which he cautioned that the chrome removal process can be damaging to the silver solder that they used. I had never heard that before and am wondering if it is accurate, or cautionary at best? +++++++++++++++++
Let me just comment that Waterford will not re-chrome. I learned this when they were still Schwinn, when they repaired the frame on my formerly all-chrome '65. Gave me my choice of colors and did a lovely job, but not chrome.
Last year, when I had the '38 repainted by Waterford, I believe I noticed the same thing on the web site, or when I asked about redoing what had been a chrome fork on that bike. Again, the answer was negative.
I suspect there is a reason...
harvey sachs
mcLean va