Originally Posted by Wally

I happened to run across these guys here local to me...they were using one of our pumps for their nickle bath and was having problems with it so i went out to them and checked out their facility. Needless to say after i fixed their pump they gave me a tour of the facility and how its all done and i had them re-do my Chris Craft emblems off my boat. To do chrome like this is an artform i say!! its flawless!! The owner even showed me pictures of the car they did for Jay Leno that was in the pebble beach show!

http://www.thefinishingtouchinc.com/

Originally Posted by picklenjim

I worked at a place that engraved copper printing cylinders and when finished we plated them with the industrial hard chrome. The decoritive/show chrome they call triple plating. It's copper-nickle-chrome plating. Industrial chrome don't use the nickle. Prices have sky rocketed on plating due to gov and epa regulations. By the mid '90's we had to have a 30,000 gallon tank installed to catch everything that went down the drain, ie rinsing off cylinders after they came out of the plating tanks. Then we had to get high dollar permits and trucks to come empty it and haul if off for disposal. Also had to exhaust the fumes off the plating tanks and run them through scrubbers that turned them back to liquid and then ran back into the tanks. All kinds of hazardous chemicals, acids and solvents are used in the plating processes including cyanide.
I worked there 28 years and 2 years after it shut down I came down with Leukemia (AML) and had to have a Bone Marrow Transplant for survival.

Originally Posted by picklenjim

Thanks Mike. It's been 8 years and I'm doing well now. I was one of the lucky ones as AML only has a 20% survival rate.

Originally Posted by kvogt

Do they chrome aluminum?