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rechrome on a spokes set??$$$
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I would not chrome spokes regardless. The chroming process embrittles the metal.
I had a set of chromed spokes on a used wheel I bought and the chrome flaked off them real easy. I was told it had to do with the spoke "stretching" under tension and the chrome not stretching at the same rate. I ended up pealing off the remaining chrome(that was a bugger X 40)and I found SS spokes underneath. The SS Spokes underneath polished up real nice. Maybe the chrome doesnt stick to the SS as good as other metals?
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These are the Buchanan SS spokes, had the rim rechromed, hub polished etc... Well worth it in my opinion but I'm biased of course kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_ponygal...c=detail&id=2311
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Austin, that is so horrible, so simply unforgiveably horrible, :dry: that someone would stoop so low :ohmy: as to using a common everyday cheapo mundane garden-variety cotter pin :pinch: in the axle castle nut instead of a larger size super cool hitch pin like the one on the brake arm nut. What in the world were you thinking? :huh:
Easy to tell you like cutting corners and trying to get by with slipshodding and doing stuff the easy way. :lol:
We'll maybe forgive you this once, but please try to do better in the future.
Bwahahahahahaha! :woohoo: :laugh: :laugh:
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Jeff.Saunders wrote:
put the parts in the oven to heat them up then cool them down slowly takes care of it.I would not chrome spokes regardless. The chroming process embrittles the metal.
That's funny!!
The embrittlement of of metal or alloy by atomic hydrogen involves the ingress of hydrogen into a component, an event that can seriously reduce the ductility and load-bearing capacity, cause cracking and catastrophic brittle failures at stresses below the yield stress of susceptible materials
If you have an oven that will hit 1500 F then you can temper most steel alloys, maybe 2500 F for hardening, but neither will help the hydrogen embrittlement caused by chrome plating.
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Considerable amount of work on hydrogen embrittlement has been conducted and published in the literature. Some important work was done and published by scientists at the Naval Air Warfare Center. The bottom line is: it is nearly impossible to remove all of the hydrogen that has been introduced, using common baking methods.
www.finishing.com/1200-1399/1216.shtml
Have some method to determine how much hydrogen is left in the metal? Or do you depend on blind faith?
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Since I'm not being paid to educate anyone it boils down to pay your money and accept the risk, or don't, the choice is yours. Personally I don't subcribe to the "I've been doing it this way for 50 years so it must be right!" school of thought.
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yep and the engineers at boeing are obviously wrong also,how dare any of us think we might possibly be able to put our experiances up here against the all knowing all wise one!:blush: i can sleep better now knowing i dont have to listen to what any of the people with actual real world experiance in the trades know instead i can just direct any and all questions to the great one.Considerable amount of work on hydrogen embrittlement has been conducted and published in the literature. Some important work was done and published by scientists at the Naval Air Warfare Center. The bottom line is: it is nearly impossible to remove all of the hydrogen that has been introduced, using common baking methods.
www.finishing.com/1200-1399/1216.shtml
Have some method to determine how much hydrogen is left in the metal? Or do you depend on blind faith?
Citing some local shop down the road, priceless.
Since I'm not being paid to educate anyone it boils down to pay your money and accept the risk, or don't, the choice is yours. Personally I don't subcribe to the "I've been doing it this way for 50 years so it must be right!" school of thought.
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