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Old 03-27-10 | 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Wills
Chrome plating can be applied to any metal, so your question doesn't make sense. In general, replacement forks are chrome-plated, which avoids issues with matching paint color.
So chrome forks are just plating over some type of steel? Was under the (not in any way informed) impression the whole fork was a homogeneous alloy, and not just plated.

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