Rich;
The chrome looks like it is spray can? There seems to be over-spray on your bench.
What I noticed is that if the coats don't fully cure between spraying, then they won't adhere properly.
Problem is, on a dry winter's day, i.e. zero humidity, in a very warm room, like high 70's,
it is possible for a single coat of airbrushed enamel/Krylon to cure in 72 hours.
On a high humidity day, and if using a heavier coat, I'll give it upwards of a whole week.
I'm no paint chemist, but after the carrier solvent evaporates, the polymer needs time
to polymerize, that is, build long chains and criss-cross matrices of molecules. It will actually go through two thinning stages, the immediately noticeable one when the carrier solvent dries, and an less noticeable one while the resin polymerizes.
That curing can be dependent on a number of factors; humidity, temperature, the
volatility of the carrier, the concentration of the polymer because gloss coats with higher resin content take longer to cure than flat coats, or put another way, the solvent to resin ratio by weight or volume, the thickness of the coat, and curing time between coats, residue mold release.
Applying a second coat after the carrier dries but the resin has not cured is deadly.
Even if it has cured 90%, another coat can still cause the base coats to soften.
Sounds like, from a distance, that's what happened. Long answer, but Alclad primer I'll give a whole week any time of year, and about the same for spray can work.
I dunno, I once had a solvent from a slow drying heavy coat bleed out the sticky from the tape just a tiny bit for a fuzzy edge.
The only thing I can suggest is that because you are using a gloss chrome(???) is to hit the bastige with 1200 grit wet sand after it is cured to help with adhesion.
Dang, I get frustrated just hearing about stuff like that......
-Dom