chrome or nickel plated?

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ok i hope I'm in the right thread for this, so here is my question. i want refurbish a model 80 Marlin but i want to put a shine to all the gun metal. i was thinking chrome or nickel plated but unsure if it would dis-colour when shot repeatedly like chrome exhaust on a motor cycle. i would prefer nickel but i don't want to put money into it if dis-colour will occur. if any one could pitch some advice it would be much great full. plating will be done by pros.
 
Discoloring only occurs after about 400*F if you run that much lead through your marlin to get it that hot I'd be more concerned with the rifling than the discoloration...ie you won't get it that hot from firing the gun. Lots of guns are nickel plated and I've never seen one blued up like an exhaust header.
I would however be concerned with peeling or chiping around the ejection port.
 
FromTheNorth said:
ok i hope I'm in the right thread for this, so here is my question. i want refurbish a model 80 Marlin but i want to put a shine to all the gun metal. i was thinking chrome or nickel plated but unsure if it would dis-colour when shot repeatedly like chrome exhaust on a motor cycle. i would prefer nickel but i don't want to put money into it if dis-colour will occur. if any one could pitch some advice it would be much great full. plating will be done by pros.
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The gun would be too hot for you to hold/fire far before it got hot enough to discolor :)

Edit: especially with 22.
 
A properly bonded plating job will have a layer of copper plated on the steel, then a layer of nickel, then a layer of chrome. The chrome layer is very thin, it is just protective (hard), and imparts a slight blue cast to the silver cast of the nickel.
 
Those pros have a firearms business licence? Not your problem if they don't. Unless they happen to get caught and your .22 is confiscated as evidence.
Nickel plating is 19th Century technology. Chrome usually doesn't work well on firearms. Industrial hard chrome is your friend. Looks like brushed Al at first. Sort of bluish. The shine(usually from use wear) is the HC polishing itself.
 
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