Funny how some think about chroming stainless at all. I love the lightly gold tone in polished stainless as contrary to the blue cold chrome. So I replicate most chromed parts in stainless and polish - finished and everlasting, like the ss kickstart above. So when chroming an original early ss kickstart, how is this "original" ?? One exception for me is the chromed exhaust set as stainless in heat gets too brown like on modern bikes.
Again, what place on a motorbike is not suitable for ss fasteners, simple polemics of scaring owners away from ss and thinking about other coatings way inferior to stainless. I would not think the Phils ever accepted that cheap poor black finish , minimum grade was cad or zinc I´d say.
Standard metric fasteners are mostly found in A2-70 grades , 18-10 chrome/nickel percent and durable in typical road use for ages. The A4-80 grade is even better in hot chemicals but a bit over the top for bikes. With imperial there seems to be no clear marks on bolt heads standard, in aviation same, just dots, lines or the like which say exactly what ?? Once more you need secret files to look up for clarification , in metric it is material and tensile strength simple to read - well . . . . Really, lots of old wife stories in this matter for trying to prove something - well , religion again . . . .
Vic