Re: [CR]Flying Scot Dilema

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

From: <NortonMarg@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:16:17 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Flying Scot Dilema
To: flying_scot@btopenworld.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 12/28/03 4:04:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, flying_scot@btopenworld.com writes:
> Has anyone on the list ever had a frame re-chromed ? - From what I can find
> out the platers remove the old chrome by reversing the plating process,
> causing the old plating to literally disappear, then the frame obviously has
> to be repolished, and then re-plated, and that the biggest problem lies in
> polishing the frame to required standard a second time round.
>

Have them stop de-plating when they get to the copper. If they take all the copper off, then they start taking brass out of the joints.
Stevan Thomas
Alameda, CA