'39 Standard hood orn/handle

[JSeery]

Originally Posted by Kube

TJ, Just how thick do you think the plating is? Seriously, how thick?

It's going to depend on how it was chromed, but I would assume very thin on a commercial part. We would have the in house (Boeing) chrome shop add material to a undersized part to tighten it up. But that was in the couple of thousands range. Believe commercial plating is way less than a thousandth.

Found this reference.

[Kube]

Originally Posted by JSeery

It's going to depend on how it was chromed, but I would assume very thin on a commercial part. We would have the in house (Boeing) chrome shop add material to a undersized part to tighten it up. But that was in the couple of thousands range. Believe commercial plating is way less than a thousandth.

Found this reference.

Yep, my point exactly. And you can bet ol' Bob Drake ain't paying the Chinese for that super duper long lasting plating.