Chrome Plating on ABS Plastics is Too Rough

A. Try adding a wetting agent to your nickel tank depending on how big your tank is and how bad the pits are usually 1 pint is a good starting place; usually the problem is to many organics in your solution. It might help to dummy your tank over night on about 4 volts.

A. There are few plating shops, Howard, because electroplating was the first categorically regulated industry in America.

Corporate America immediately closed their in-house plating facilities and ran for the hills, washing their hands of the responsibility, leaving Mom & Pop Plater to do their dirty work for them and hold the bag. Mom & Pop couldn't afford the regulations, and everyone hates a job that involves being publicly lambasted both by the media & your children's teachers, being fined & harassed to death by swarms of agents, and threatened with jail by slimy politicians.

I am not saying the environmental pressures were wrong, nor am I asking anyone to "pity the poor plater". I'm only providing a truthful answer to your question: there are very few platers anymore because no one owning a plating shop can sleep, so most people who could get out got out.