I've been using a degreaser (O'reilly automotive brand) in place of the SP degreaser and have been getting much better results. The degreaser is used at room temp. Before, I did heat the SP degreaser some (maybe around 115 degrees) but it just didn't cut the grease. I know they say to heat it up to 140 degrees but at the time I just didn't have anyhting to bring the temp up that high. I like this O'reilly degeaser in that I can use it at room temp. Its very similar ans smells like POR-15. As to the chrome bath time, I've tried leaving the part in the bath longer like around three minutes but it always came out hazy. Since just leaving in for two minutes, it's been coming out much better.
You are probably right on the jiggling the part while in chrome and I'll stop doing that. But the rotation of the part while in the chrome bath I'm sure has helped with the uneven chrome plate issue and parts of the part not getting chromed.
Back to the cleaning issue, I'm just lazy I guess as I just don't like to have to heat up any more chemicals that I have too. Thats why I like to use this degreaser I'm using now. It seems to work just fine as long as I clean and rinse the part two or three times with the final time being a hang and soak time of about a minute. I'm sure some sort of super heated degreaser would be very beneficial but I'm thinking as long as this current method is working...what the heck. The issue I was having with the chrome peeling I think is past now as I'm sure I just didn't get the part clean enough. I've since changed my cleaning habit and it seems to be working now.
48Buick....I tried to send you an e-mail but it got kicked back as "Undeliverable"
