Satin chrome can be acheived by altering the base metal finish. Give the part a satin look prior to chrome plating and the part will be satin chrome. You can do this by buffing with a brightex wheel, or by bead blasting.
Do you need a REAL chrome plate, or would something like our Copy Chrome be suitable? Copy chrome will plate directly onto steel. Stainless will require a pre-plate with Stainless Steel Activator (which uses the same anodes as the Copy Chrome process)
Real chrome will require our Triple chrome kit. Plate first with nickel (or stainless steel activator for stainless parts), then copper plate, satin the copper plate, nickel again, then chrome plate.
I don't see any problem with contaminated beads. You'll be cleaning/degreasing the part in between each plating step anyway, so there shouldn't be any issues.
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