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Title: Chrome or Silver
Post by: Gashead on June 23, 2013, 07:53 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/f0a6421d7208a25eb8ba9645303b11a4_zps06932c30.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/fdca76b46ce1daa37b9795ab67f0eccc_zpsd5ddbacb.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/cd90f89e4491502dba949c80c11d4a32_zpsab7c9977.jpg)
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: john4130 on June 23, 2013, 07:55 PM: look chrome to me.
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: stidds on June 23, 2013, 07:57 PM: they look silvery chrome to me :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: Jaymz on June 23, 2013, 07:59 PM: ? Polished alloy ?

Doesn't look like a coating of chrome to me
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: Gashead on June 23, 2013, 07:59 PM: I would say chrome too - but not 100%
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: glenboy on June 23, 2013, 08:16 PM: as jaymz says look polished alloy to me , best bet get a knife and see if the chrome scrapes off , do it in a few different places :2funny: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: That Swan Guy on June 23, 2013, 08:29 PM: not chrome, the polish up with autosol like bare alloy does. just done mine
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: Dannywhac on June 23, 2013, 08:33 PM: If you stick em out in the garden for a week - if they go orange rust they're chrome, grey dusty rust then it's alloy. No help whatsoever there though :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: not johndub71 on June 23, 2013, 08:51 PM: polished :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: animal on June 23, 2013, 09:34 PM: Clear anno ;) Just stripped some levers 2 day the same. Also have a NOS caliper like that and a chrome 1 2 compare ::)
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: HARORIDER on June 25, 2013, 10:09 PM: i would say silver even properly stored ones would have probably started pitting a little by now :-\
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: Rabdul06 on June 25, 2013, 11:12 PM: I reckon those are silver. I just got a set that looked like that and although they cleaned up nice they didnt bling. Turned a cloth with Autosol black....
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: MartyC on June 26, 2013, 11:18 AM: Magnet test will tell you
Title: Re: Chrome or Silver
Post by: meticulous on June 27, 2013, 05:18 PM: Quote from: animal on June 23, 2013, 09:34 PM
Clear anno ;) Just stripped some levers 2 day the same. Also have a NOS caliper like that and a chrome 1 2 compare ::)

ditto...

if it was chrome it would have a mirror finish, if they are original then deffo clear ano... ;)