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Seeking knowledge on chroming my aluminum molds

2003

Hello

I want to do chroming for my aluminium molds but I don't know a single thing about the matter so please tell me how to start with a cheap and easy way so that if I make mistakes I will be able to afford it.

Thank you

Shadi Zreik
machine shop - Koumassi, Abijan, Ivory Coast

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If someone here were to ask how to do landscaping, professing that they "don't know a single thing about it", the readers would giggle with how impossible it would be to try to explain such a broad subject in a single posting on an internet forum. This despite the fact that everyone already understands the vocabulary of grass & flowers & trees, and gravel & drainage & shade & roots.

Plating is more complex and less familiar--and the layman doesn't even know the vocabulary. So it is just impossible for anyone to help you this way, Mr. Zreik. You need to get hold of a few plating books, and try to make a trip to a plating shop (I realize that may be difficult on the Ivory Coast) and then hopefully you can ask questions that we can try to answer. Sorry!

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2003