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Re: chroming Midlands UK on the other channel Jon Walsh

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darkslider:
Its not Midlands but its only Manchestaaar and its top sorted mad for it our kid! I phoned R+S chroming who seemed to know his stuff where other people spat their dummies out when asked questions quoted £65 for a frame £25 for forks.Anyone any price comparisons?

lazychubs:
well down here insunny essex ive ben qouted £10 for forks or bars and £50 for the frame
but cost me £15 to dechrome it and £35 to polish it

darkslider:
I rang up some where in Liverpool and they worked on £20-22 a foot on car bumpers but said they couldn't do bikes as they need hard chroming. But their price included all prep with a guarantee on satisfaction. Apparantly metal is stripped to a mirror finish before process or any little flaw will show up!

Frosty:
Castleford chrome charged me £80 for a frame, 1 pair of 401 arms and a pair of 400 arms. I am still waiting for my bars to come back, these are costing £20 - but to be honest as cheap as they are it is difficult getting the parts sent back timely.

They only accept payment by cheque and will not send stuff back before it clears (that's fine with me) but I do object to having to make chasing phone calls each week, like I have for the last 3!!!

I'd be interested in hearing what people think of the work done by the R+S folks in Manchester as I have another pair of bars on there way and they are tired looking!!

Regards

Paul

Sanmarcopizza:
If it is R & S Electroplating Co.Ltd in failsworth I would urge you to give them the body swerve. They are slow & unreliable and their work is crap. When I used them their polisher had injured himself seriously and then decided he was not going back to work. I guess the work that I had done may have been rushed by someone un-skilled, but the net effect was that I had a set of stamped Redline STR bars returned to me with serious dimpling under the grips, and at least half of the writing polished away. They also did a Redline fluted seatpost, which lost a serious amount of ridge and also was dimpled in the recesses. All in all I was very dissapointed with them.

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