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Chroming Question

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Rodgy1970:
There was something about this a while back, a frame builder in USA said chroming did weaken the metal and therefore the frame, I remember reading it and thinking that it wouldn't be to any significant degree so as you'd notice it.

Although I've seen a fair few cracked Hutch frames so maybe Hutch frames with their triple show chrome are weaker   :-\    ;D

Gashead:
Been a subject a thousand times on here too.

At the end of the day, are you gunna ride and thrash it ? Or is it gunna be a carpet queen ?


You don't know the lofe of these bikes, so who know ? Also frames snap and crack the day they come out the factory, so ya never know eh !


 :daumenhoch:

john4130:
chrome does weaken it but not enough to worry about, i rode a chrome standard lengthy for 10 years before cracking the top and downtubes. the reason a lot of hutch bikes cracked was because they were crap. :daumenhoch:

markyp:
youre in a good position if you are going to have it rechromed again as basically if there are any nasties such as pitting from lack of prep in any of the tight areas you will  be able to point this out to the chromer and ask them to give it a quick tickle before rechroming,so in theory the second rechrome should be awesome if it wasnt already

animal:
I had a shadow rechromed and it looked brilliant after  :daumenhoch:

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