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Hi Nick, welcome to RAD. Ok, re: chroming. If you phone/text/email allenchrome, their books are officially closed for approx. 6 months - I spoke to Dave there a few weeks ago. Part of the reason is the prep time required to get a frame in good enough condition to plate it. If you contact John at Leigh Metal Polishers, Swinton, Manchester on 0161 728 4325, they will strip your frame, polish it to the required standard, and send it to one of their small group of chrome platers to get done. Here's the icing on the cake. Allenchrome are one of their platers, although it just depends on how busy each plating company is, so you cannot specify where your frame will go to. Any attempts to force the issue regarding which chrome to send it to will not be looked on favourably by the polisher. I've told you this off the record so to speak, so no mention of it please. I've left this post public to let others reap the benefits from using Leigh Metal Polishers. I've used them for 6 years now, and apart from getting a few special items done directly with allenchrome (very long story which I won't bore you with), I wouldn't go anywhere else for my chroming. My old Hutch Pro Racer (now sold), was prepped/polished by Leigh Metal polishers - they sent it off for chrome, so I don't know which plater actually did it - it may have been Allenchrome. The finish is amazing - Ask Retrodan to confirm, as he owns the frameset now