My powdercoater tells me that he can't blast off chrome. It has to be chemically removed and that's very expensive here (not to mention hazardous). I recently had a nice frame that was in poor shape blasted and coated. The chrome on the fork ends and dropouts was flaking. He removed as much chrome as he could and then powder coated the entire frame. It's not the prettiest result and with a lot of use I expect some flaking of the PC in those areas. But for $115 I stopped the rust and prolonged the life of the frame for many more years at least.