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Old 03-27-10 | 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by andrew.waye
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.

You may have been confused by the term cro-mo which is a steel tubing alloy which is chrome molybdenum which I have heard some people refer to incorrectly as just chrome

Last edited by cnnrmccloskey; 03-27-10 at 11:36 PM. Reason: Clarified
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