CHROMING ALLY HELP

[kuwahero]

hey guys

does anyone know where I can get some aluminium araya rims rechromed. my local place will only do steel.

thanks in advance 

[MartyC]

I've found it very hard to find somewhere these days due to the H&S issues with the chemicals and the process combined with the finished results which can be patchy.  My local guys won't touch alloy with a barge pole but I do know that Billy Stupple has had some parts done in the past (Hutch Headlock) so maybe you can find somewhere - do let us all know if you do  .

[mark 2]

Just get them to machine polish them to a mirror finish if they won't chrome them, they'd need to polish them anyway to this finish before they're plated. The place I use charges £30p/h for polishing as an example, that's the dear part of the process.

[etriedes]

I found a place that does it in the Midlands, but to chrome some pro class rims they quoted me £70 a rim  and couldn't guarentee that the finish would be spot on .. so i opted to have them polished instead and it cost me £30 for both rims .

i have some chrome arayas also, and when there side by side with the polished pro class rims your hard pushed to tell the difference .

[Time Lord 1]

i can polish any alloy, i can do rims for £40 a pair posted back to you

heres a page ive done with all my work on so far and the prices

http://www.raleighburner.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php't=12266


heres my set of aeros i polished



and built up -



 

[kuwahero]

time lord - thanks for the offer.

are you able to strip them first.

[Time Lord 1]

unfortuantly i cant get out to get any oven pride at the minute but if you have a wilkos near you they will sell it cheap then if you want to send me the oven cleaner with the rims id be happy to strip them or you could do it, its up to you.

[kuwahero]

thought that stuff only worked on anodising. these rims are chromed although they are aluminium

[Time Lord 1]

oh, my mistake, i thought they were annodised in that case i have no idea on removing chrome