I would say that a good majority of 70's and 80's chromework on many bikes (specially the French bikes) were just mostly thin, and rough. And even the supposedly high end bikes got bad chromework too. I still remember looking a Cioccs and some Guerciottis really close back in the 80's and seeing roughness of the chrome specially at the chrome/Paint transitions on many of their framesets. Some of these areas were so rough and thin that I thought I could see rusting steel poking through in little spots on brand new framesets.........never mind the QR paint that were always flaking off on these junctions. It wasn't long that I decided not to miss having no chrome on the rear triangle of my PSV. Only chrome I liked on bikes is on fully chromed forks like the one on mine. It seems like the QC problems were usually with partial chroming of the frame or fork. Maybe they figured that most of it was going to be covered with paint anyway, so there was a general lax in QC?....I dunno.....

Chombi