[Goldie]

Brilliant,
thanks for that....

I have done some visits to a few visits to a few platers today to see how much it would cost to get my side pipes chromed. I never had any idea that there was any such thing as gold zinc.

When you look at the actual finish it sort of looks like someone just put a coloured dye over the calipers as you can still see quite clearly the stippled sort of pattern as clearly as is the original. I thought that zinc plating would have made that pattern more smooth...

But if that is what you say, I will take the calipers to the few local places and ask them to show me some that they did earlier so that I am sure it is the finish that I want...

as an aside, the chroming people were saying that they may have a problem croming the pipes as, where the 4 pipes run together for about 8 inches, the place where they meet, which is a sort of deep trough, they tell me that the chrome will not be so good there, as it would me more yellow than nice shiny silver.

They recommended Nickel plating, and showed me an example, and I never knew that nickel plating was so good. It really was very much like Chrome but just a slightly different shade to it.. I was impressed.. But I am not really sure if it is the thing to do.... Has anybody had this problem with the little tight gaps not being the right colour, and how bad is it really..????