Originally Posted by Cyberwolf

If you can embed a grain of sandpaper in a hard chrome cylinder you are one strong guy,or have some pretty soft chrome considering the fact that most good sandpapers won't even scratch a hard chrome cylinder.
They don't use Specialized grinding and Honing equipment just for the sake of using it, it is the fact that hard chrome is HARD and requires it to be machined and worked correctly.
I will bet anyone in here that there arm will tire out long before you can do any measurable damage to a hard chrome plated cylinder.
Even Nickle is a challenge to do and does require the same sort of equipment to machine as the chrome does.