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When you purchase a chrome wheel for your motorcycle, you need to know who the manufacturer of the same is.
There are companies who make wheels for Harley, Kawasaki Sportbike, Yamaha, Honda and other motorcycle brands. To get the best result, it is important to choose the right maker. In many companies, they use the stock wheels for chrome plating but the procedure these companies use are different from brand to brand and the quality also differ drastically. To get the best quality on these wheels, you need to choose a good company that has professional expertise in plating chrome on wheels.
As most products are sold online these days, it is not surprising that most of fail to recognize the technical details of these products. A little information on the manufacturing of chrome motorcycle wheels or chrome wheel plating will give you a better idea on this issue. The first step in chrome plating is the acid bathing for the wheels. Each wheel will be acid bathed to get the best result and acid bathing will remove each bit of paint that wasn’t removed during the paint strip process. Once the acid batch is done, the wheel will have no colors at all.
The paint stripped wheels will be polished heavily to achieve a mirror like finish. This is the last step before chrome plating. If the wheel has imperfections or rough cast, these will be removed during the polishing process so that the wheel can have a very good finish. With all these features done, your wheel is all set to go for chrome plating. If any of these procedures are not done correctly, your chrome plating will not last longer. This is why many reputed wheels and chrome plating can go wrong in the hands of an amateur.
There are many issues with chrome plating on a rough surface or an uneven surface. First of all, the chances of your plating peeling are quite high. The plating can get faded or even turn yellowish. There are many alloy wheels that have copper parts in it but this will be replaced with nickel to achieve better durability for the plating. A layer of soft copper can bring down imperfections on the wheel and this will be done before the buffing. As the addition is acidic copper, it can be buffed of quite nicely, making way for your final plating of chrome.
There are not many manufacturers who adhere to all these techniques while plating the wheels with chrome. However, there are companies who can do these jobs professionally, including all the steps that we have discussed here and such companies produce better results. Chrome wheels from such companies also last quite longer. You can safely say that the investment you made is well spent and each penny you spent is quite valuable. For all these reasons, chrome plated alloys must be purchased from reputed sources with a good feedback from their previous customers and review sites.
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