In a message dated 6/20/2007 6:01:35 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
lsr_man@yahoo.com writes:
Has anybody on this list had any first-hand experience with chrome and
nickel plating?
DickJ
In East Texas
I"ve had "second hand experience", Dick.
What I know about it is it's all in the preparation, just like paint work. A
good plater will sand and polish the metal, give it a quick acid dip followed
by a good water rinse/neutralizer. They first plate it with copper, sand and
polish it again, Nickel plate it, sand and polish that and finally chrome
plate it. The chrome only gets polishing.
When something is chromed it makes it brittle. If the part is a critical
member, get it heat treated after chroming.
Also, with the EPA regs these days, finding a plater in the US that does
small jobs is getting harder. I know there's a plater in Juarez who does
excellent work, cheap. All the shops in Albuq use him since our plater got
busted
for housing illegals and Cocane poss. I'll find out the name/number if you
want
to try the Juarez guy.
Otto
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