Anyone do chrome plating?
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Jefpainthorse
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Franson Firearms over in Tulsa might. He's got a web page. If Don can't he knows who can.
Hard chrome...right? Not soft chrome like they used to use on car bumpers (right after horses and buggies went out of vouge).
Hard chrome...right? Not soft chrome like they used to use on car bumpers (right after horses and buggies went out of vouge).
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I work with an out of state plater for hard chrome. Next gun I send, Id be happy to get your friends smaller parts done, but I dont usually just send a few parts at a time.
drmitchgibson
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There have been many local companies that do it, but I'm not sure how many are around anymore. Most of what OKC produces for commercial treatments is limited to heat-treating, and most companies with a gross of $5M or more just do it themselves, so it's not necessarily as common as it once was. It only costs about $80K to start up a plating line with used equipment. Look up "Plating" in the Yellow Pages.
dennishoddy
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Disposal of the waste is the reason most small companies got out of it. My FIL did the chrome plating on landing gear at AA before retiring. He owned a couple of small plating businesses before moving to AA. Federal regs put him out of business.
Jefpainthorse
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The reason I asked... back when I was a kid, my grandad worked at a GM plant. Lot's of guns got "bumper chromed" on the night shift back then. It's shiney...but it peels pretty easy, that nickle chrome is pretty soft too.
You still see a lot of "chrome" Smith and Wessons and duffle bag GI 1911's in Pawn Shops in the Upper Midwest.
The Govt may have gone overboard with the regulations when they finally got around to making some... but too many of those old timers died from their work. Foundry work and plating are full of poisons. We dont see many brown belts or Superfund clean up areas in Oklahoma..but when that stuff gets in a water table- the area is ruined for years.
Oh.. forgot about the lead mines at Picher... and the mess in Cushing....
You still see a lot of "chrome" Smith and Wessons and duffle bag GI 1911's in Pawn Shops in the Upper Midwest.
The Govt may have gone overboard with the regulations when they finally got around to making some... but too many of those old timers died from their work. Foundry work and plating are full of poisons. We dont see many brown belts or Superfund clean up areas in Oklahoma..but when that stuff gets in a water table- the area is ruined for years.
Oh.. forgot about the lead mines at Picher... and the mess in Cushing....
