They keep changing platers, have issues with some, go to others, etc, etc. So always seems like a roll of the dice what you get, and with the long lead time it doesn't help either. I do not believe they will sell the S/S in raw form. They don't want to sell components of them either, I have tried to buy only the centers in the past.

As for stripping and rechroming them...I don't doubt you wouldn't get a better quality chrome job from a dedicated place, but if it is worth the cost... hard to say?

Sort of hard to know what the chrome work will hold up like on them out of the box until you've had them a little while. You could always inspect them first off and see just how good it is.

I know I just had an entire pallet of defective chrome 14" x 7" outers, and a bunch of bad 15" x 8" as well...