Amazing chrome plating.

[Yorkie]

Interesting videos Colin, with stunning results.

(Can't help thinking that the guy in the first vid was deprived of water pistols as a child!).

I've seen nothing like it in the UK - I bet it's costly.

You can get chrome plating kits that use a wire brush, but quite expensive. I don't know anyone who's tried it, and I'd be sceptical about the results.

The all important aspect of chrome plating is preparation, especially if something is being re-chromed. Unless the surface to be plated is totally unblemished, every little blemish will show through. Ideally, the old plating needs to be removed in the plating bath electrically, but most plating firms just aren't interested in time consuming fiddly jobs. Rather a pity that (notwithstanding the above videos), they haven't perfected an aerosol spray that comes close to Chrome. You can get a decent silver finish, over-sprayed with lacquer, which is passable for most of us I guess. They've got powder coating off to a fine art too - superb durable finish for not much more than aerosols would cost on alloy wheels etc.