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Re-chroming seems more expensive than just buying new stanchions. Admittedly new stanchions wouldn't be original but is there some hidden advantage I'm overlooking? I'm still a little tempted to leave them as they are as I can think of better things or at least visible things to spend £300 on but I'm not sure my OCD could cope with that
Quote from: DaveB on July 17, 2017, 06:24:39 PMRe-chroming seems more expensive than just buying new stanchions. Admittedly new stanchions wouldn't be original but is there some hidden advantage I'm overlooking? I'm still a little tempted to leave them as they are as I can think of better things or at least visible things to spend £300 on but I'm not sure my OCD could cope with that Not sure where you get £300 from. I have just had a set of CB550 and a set if CB750 ones hard chromed by Philpots. Their website shows £175 inc VAT retail per pair.
Quote from: Nurse Julie on July 17, 2017, 07:53:13 PMQuote from: DaveB on July 17, 2017, 06:24:39 PMRe-chroming seems more expensive than just buying new stanchions. Admittedly new stanchions wouldn't be original but is there some hidden advantage I'm overlooking? I'm still a little tempted to leave them as they are as I can think of better things or at least visible things to spend £300 on but I'm not sure my OCD could cope with that Not sure where you get £300 from. I have just had a set of CB550 and a set if CB750 ones hard chromed by Philpots. Their website shows £175 inc VAT retail per pair.If I strip them down myself which I'm not sure I'd make a very good job of Otherwise £275 plus whatever the shipping costs are.
I did post a picture on here some time a go of what the repro ones look like after some years. Philpots will do the top caps FOC when they do stanchions and you will see them while riding