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Once you have the paint off you need to polish the steel frame until it shines - no scratches at all - like a mirror. The chrome plating is not polished its get all of its shine from the surface below. First class chrome is a three layer process. clean and polish steel, plate with copper - polish, plate with nickel - polish, plate with chrome. I had a quote to plate a frame and forks recently £300