“Hydrogen embrittlement” can occur from chrome plating, also chrome is expensive and environmentally unfriendly. I think all 3 played into chrome rails being a lot less common on Brooks’ than they used to be…
Doug P.S. A Brooks top that is still good can be mounted on a new frame. Not super cheap, but maybe less than a new one that is also not broken in? On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM Mike Packard <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW I had a chromed b17 rail break a couple years ago. It was slightly > out of warranty and Brooks support only referred me to Firth and Wilson. I > did some googling and found others complaining of similar breaks, some > wondering if the chromed rails were more brittle or something. Kinda > disappointing but I never really loved the fit of the b17 so I didn't > pursue repair or replacement. Anecdotal I know. > > I just got a b68 a couple weeks ago and so far it's great. > > Mike in Austin > > > On Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 2:51:14 PM UTC-5 der_amerikanische_freund > wrote: > >> Hi all, just out of curiosity, has there ever been a Brooks B17 standard >> with silver rails? At present the only B17 standards with silver rails are >> the carved version (known as Imperial) or the Special version with copper >> rails (or copper color like rails...). >> >> I'm sure I've seen photos and a friend of mine swears he has one >> "Non-carved" in silver rails, but they don't seem to exist in the Brooks >> catalogue anymore. >> >> Thanks >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAK64jTHRgtL0r4ats-nk_raor5mw_05YP%3DTEh2toz8bwykacDg%40mail.gmail.com.
