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Francis.

Home plating type stuff is not HARD CHROME Plating, the industrial process is totally different from the decorative process. You cannot do this yourself.

Regards

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Very true. "Hard" chrome is indeed extremely hard and well suited to areas subject to wear.
Hard chrome is certainly totally different to decorative chrome.
An old friend (no longer with us) who lived in Brisbane, was very good at hard chroming small parts to accurate thicknesses.
I used to have the valve stems for a particular motorcycle engine hard chromed, to eliminate wear at the stem.
Worked very well.