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Originally Posted by StevePGN10 (Post 13910982)

Thanks to this thread, I just discovered that my new 74 Fuji is fully chromed under the blue paint.

Did anyone use a trademark for paint-over-chrome finishes? I seem to remember a thread once where it was referred to as "chromalto"

Chromovelato is the generic Italian terminology for applying a transluscent colour coat over chrome plating. It was probably most popular in the early 1980s with several manufacturers (Colnago, Scapin, Moser, Bartali, etc.)but goes back further. I recall boom era Torpado with the finish. I believe it was orignally developed as an improvment on Legnano's transparante verde, which was their famous transparent green over silver paint.

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Originally Posted by horatio (Post 13903824)

Other than cosmetics, does anyone know the value of chrome plating a frame? Does it deter corrosion, or simply add lustre to a painted finish?

I am surprised you can even ask this question.:wtf:

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Mmmmmm..........shiny.:D

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Originally Posted by repechage (Post 13905764)

Schwinn Paramounts should be chromed.
Or black with chrome lugs and "socks"

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Originally Posted by T-Mar (Post 13912972)

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This Faggin is a variation on that. Fully chromed with a red
semi transparent overlay. The chrome is very polished and if
you even look at it funny, the paint flakes off.

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Originally Posted by T-Mar (Post 13912972)

Chromovelato is the generic Italian terminology for applying a transluscent colour coat over chrome plating.

Aha! That was it. Thank you for correcting me.

Also, thank you for my new favorite word. It trips lovingly off the tongue.

Plus, thank you for shoving me down a new slippery slope. I've been googling chromovelato and now have a new grail bike. Life will not be right until I nab a Colnago Arabesque Gentleman. I suppose for an internet forum to be worth anything, it must make you hypermanic for something you had no idea existed two minutes earlier.

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Originally Posted by StevePGN10 (Post 13915276)

I suppose for an internet forum to be worth anything,
it must make you hypermanic for something you had no idea existed two minutes earlier.

Works for me. If I hadn't seen some stuff on here about Faggin,
I'd be 500 bucks richer and have one less in the garage.:lol: