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Subject: Re: chromers

Author: Ross

Date: Nov 2, 2002, 12:03 PM

Post ID: 1711319860

I am a little late on this but the major problem you'll have with chrome
platers is the destruction of originality by over polishing. The polishers,
a separate department, will overpolish, round corners and edges, ovalize
holes, and do other damage unless properly directed. I have a set of police
bars that no longer have the crimp lines (I don't know the correct term)
because a polisher thought they needed to be hit hard. The owner is trying
to have this corrected or will reimburse me. Good man.
The other problem would be too much nickel, things won't fit. Nickel tends
to build at edges.
Either talk with the owner/manager and the polisher, make sure he is the
only one to touch your parts, or use someone like Mark who has worked out
these issues with a trusted plater.
Regards,
Ross
on 11/1/02 2:46 PM, Paul Linn at paul-@comcast.net wrote:

 Just send what you need done to Mark at MGC and he should be able to send
you the same stuff back nicely chromed. I got my crash bars and fender
braces from him and it didn't cost me an arm or a leg or even my first born.
He makes sure the stuff he gets back from the chrome people is top quality
not crap.

Paul
Midlothian, Va
73 Eldo project "Elvira" which is now at a halt due to moving!
76 T3 basket

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Kologiski" <jane-@gte.net>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:47 AM
Subject: RE: chromers


 I bought a new set of crash bars a few years ago for 100 bucks for my
wife's Ambo. I store the bike inside and keep a good amount of polish on
them. The chrome is already pitting and pealing off. A allot of new parts
have poor quality chrome, just look at all the Harley parts coming from
China. You will probably get a better job taking it to a chrome shop.

Karl and Jane Kologiski
MGNOC Central Florida Reps
Bird at The Wheel, Motorcycle Arts
St. Petersburg Florida

Visit our Website athttp://home1.gte.net/janemac/bird.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Guilfoyle [SMTP:daveg-@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:57 AM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: chromers

OK, I know I'm new to the list, and this has probably been discussed
before, so bear with me. I have all of the chrome off the Ambo and want
to send it out for rechroming. It's not real bad, mostly small rust
pits, etc. Anyone have a chromer they would recommend, or any idea how
many hundreds I'll be out for crash bars, shifter, brake lever, brake
and clutch levers?

We have some local chromers here, but I don't know them well enough to
trust.

I'm assuming that it is cheaper to have these parts rechromed than to
buy new, right?

--
K. Ross Raymond
Arizona USA
Goethe: "We become what we despise..."
'71 LAPD Ambassador
'69 Triumph T100S
Norton hopeful
1998 Ariel (my daughter, after the Sq.4, not the mermaid)

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