There is an SAE standard for baking chrome plated steel, AMS2759-9E. Your vendors are probably too stupid to understand what this does. If they follow the directions if your wheel rips apart they have a defense, we did it according to the standard.

There was a chroming place in Minnesota that had a good reputation. I can't remember their name.

There is a real problem with chromium, namely hexavalent chromium, which has high health risks. We have guys welding stainless steel pipe in our shop and we have to have special hoods for the work or a combination of air line respirators and building ventilation to keep them safe. That's what the Julia Roberts movie Erin Brockovich was all about. Well, that and Julia Roberts' front end.

What this means to me is that we are going to see less and less chroming here in the States.

R.