Re: [CR] Why Chrome?

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 09:35:28 -0400
From: "gabriel l romeu" <romeug@comcast.net>
To: Stronglight49@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CR] Why Chrome?
References: <bbb.135d2679.33803502@aol.com>
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


> Has anyone else observed what I have perceived as a shift in chrome pl ating
> trends? First toward plating stays and forks during the 1960s and perh aps
> reaching a peak during the 1970s, and then again away from plating enti rely by
> the 1980s?

To start off the conversation on this interesting topic is to see when domestic/overseas restrictions on chroming occurred for environmental considerations. The costs increase rather dramatically in concordance with the legislation here in the US. I believe either this or the framebuilding list was discussing nickel plating as a currently more cost effective solution than chrome.

I eliminated most of my anodizing for powder coating primarily because of the scale that I need would place me in a tenuous position environmentally once i had decided to take aluminum finishing in house. On a personal level, environmental concerns are always paramount and in this case resulted in a finish that allowed far more options and greater

durability.

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