On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:22:05 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Anyone tried soldering chromed pipe?

You can't.

Looking to make a join with an endfeed fitting rather than a bulky
chrome compression fitting, which I might try painting silver afterwards.
I presume you have to strip the chrome to do the soldering, but does
the heat wreck the chrome further back up the pipe? (I don't have a
piece to hand to try it on, or I'd answer my own question.)


My experience with chrome is you never get the stuff off, or it comes
off in huge ugly flakes.

Not my experience .I just used rough sandpaper to start it then
finished with fine stuff .It wasn't easy but it came off in time .