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Re: Petrol pipes

To: <TATERRY@aol.com>, <Kellmg@aol.com>, <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Petrol pipes
From: "Ray" <spook01@home.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:18:07 -0600
References: <88.118a95a1.295e7521@aol.com>
Reply-to: "Ray" <spook01@home.com>
Sender: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net
Chrome plating can cause embrittlement. We could not chrome roll bars for
that reason.  There is a way to solve the problem, though I can't remember
what the process entailed.
Best,
Ray

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From: <TATERRY@aol.com>
To: <Kellmg@aol.com>; <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Petrol pipes


> In a message dated 12/28/01 17:09:34 Pacific Standard Time, Kellmg@aol.com
> writes:
>
> << Wouldn't this process have made them brittle? >>
>
> That's a result of hydrogen embrittlement......I don't think the chrome
> process does that.  You get it with cadmium plating.
> I'm sure I've seen the pipes bright plated.
> Terry
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