I could have sworn we went over plating before, but dean is really close to being right on the nose with his plating info. Its not too complicated. Nickle will stick to anything, but chrome a pitted, rusty part will not come out shiny, so it needs to be blasted smooth as glass. Remember my 83 250R? alot of it was nickle plated (pipe, footpegs, misc items) true, platers have a "lot charge" minimum, usually $40 (or about) it depends on the size of the part or wieght, like with fasteners. black oxie is actually a forced rusting process, most other platings like any electroplate deposits a sacrificial coating on the metal to protect the base material from corrosion based failure. Very few nuts and bolts are black oxide, most are electro-zinc plated to protect the part from structural failure due to corrosion. (not to hijack a post, it seems to have gotten WAYYYY of topic anyways)!!!!!!
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