Can you weld chrome?

[ms51ves3]

Could you weld this?

I'm planning on making a rack for my scooter so things are easier to carry round. The tubing used on this wine rack is the perfect size so I thought I could hack it up weld it together so that it will fit my scooter.

If it's not possible where could I buy some tubing?

[cestrian]

No. Chrome plating is done after the rack is put together. Unless it's only screwed together. You need to make yourself a rack, then take it somewhere to be chrome plated.

[Ariel Badger]

That steel that will be made from is far too thin. I would think it would be about 1mm you need 3mm wall thickness.
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[ms51ves3]

[virus]

thats really not suitable but yes you can weld chrome with a mig, it just spits like a bitch untill you get through the plating, on the other hand you could grind the plating back.

best place for steel tubing = engineers places, ask to raid the offcuts bin.

Cheers
John
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[colin1]

Personally, I think it would be a better idea to either get a rack made for your scooter, or get one that you could modify to fit your scooter.

Ebay is a good place to start.
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[ms51ves3]

[colin1]

if you do a whole rack from scratch there is more to do than if you just bake adapting bracket things that can support a rack not designed for your scooter

often with scooters, one is like another with a different name.

it might be worth finding out if other ones with the same name have racks available on ebay
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[ms51ves3]

Here is my design I just made in paint.

https://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a376/ms51ves3/Rackdesign.jpg

That's is what I am looking for. I just think with a bit of tubing it will be pretty easy to make.

[colin1]

yeah, maybe. have u done any welding before ?
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[ms51ves3]

I was going to get my dads mate to do it as I don't have a welder and he does.

I was going to get the tubing, cut it to size then ride my scooter to his house and get it welded, fit it and back home.

[colin1]

sounds like a good plan
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[ms51ves3]

Thank you.
Lets just hope it works

[warped one]

Ok lets just clairify you can weld thinner than 1mm i've done it and its a bitch to do, you must have exactly the right amps. Trust me i was a welder. Secondly forget MIG go TIG then you can use very little wire and the torch to 'burn in'. TIG is alot neater, if its crome and you MIG it will rust on the first rain. Sand off the crome as the less stuff in the way for imperfections to occour. And decent crome plating costs a bomb go powder coat.
As i stated i was a welder (for Alstom)
cheers
Warped
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[Ariel Badger]

Of course you can weld metal far thinner than 1mm, that was not my point. A bike rack made of metal that thin would last about as long as a Lifan in the TT.
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[ms51ves3]

[Kal]

[colin1]

[SoND]

You can't weld chrome.

If you try and weld 1mm chromed pipe to support luggage on your bike, you fail.

[ms51ves3]

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