Mandy:
Hard Chrome is usually applied over a nickle flash. It goes down highly stressed and cracks upon application, however but the hairline cracking does not affect it's preformance.
Because Hard Chrome entails the use of several environmentally unfriendly compounds we are supposed to be...
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If you have to make bellows out of 1075 (shakes head) use a diffused pre-pass to preheat the area before the weld so that the weld metal and austinitized heat affected zone do not quench too fast.
Or, if you are going for production rate and have...
