Electroplating
The Nesting Problem
Our plating shop plates many small parts in barrels. Many of the parts tend to stick together or nest. How can we minimize this problem?
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Save water, save money in your cleaning processes with these common-sense tips
Read MoreDistinguishing Acid, Alkaline And Cyanide Zinc Deposits
I need a fast, easy way to determine if a zinc deposit is plated from an acid, alkaline or cyanide plating bath. Do you have any suggestions?
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Cleaning Before Plating
Our plating operations constantly have problems with surface cleaning prior to plating. Can you offer me any insight on how to solve this problem?
Read MoreOffshoring Issues
Do you have any suggestions or for how we could improve the process of offshoring our production?
Read MoreFlaking Zinc Plate
We have a customer who returned zinc-nickel plated parts to us which we processed in 2005 and have traveled to Asia. The plating is flaking from the parts. Our company is paying for this rework, yet I don’t think we are responsible for redoing the flaking parts. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Read MoreCORROSION TESTS AND GOLD JEWELRY
Recently we decided that we must do some testing to verify how well our jewelry “holds up” in a corrosive environment (humid environments, perspiration contact, etc.). Do you have any suggestions for us?
Read MoreTroubleshooting Alkaline Zinc Plating Bath
Can you help us figure out why our alkaline zinc plating bath makes the anodes polarize when the current is on?
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