Electroplating
New Finishing Technologies Taking Off
Trends in coating and finishing for aerospace and defense
Read MoreSulfate Nickel & Chloride Revisited
Is it necessary to have chloride in our sulfamate nickel plating bath?
Read MoreBlisters on Aluminum
After silver plating machined aluminum we test the parts by heating to 175oC for one hour. During the soldering step a good percentage of the parts blister. Do you have any suggestions for eliminating this problem?
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Testing Passive Surfaces
What is the standard procedure for determining if the surface of a stainless steel part is passive?
Read MoreType 416 Stainless Steel and Adhesion
After plating we observe blistering and peeling. We have tried a number of different plating cycles without ant success. What do you suggest?
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Flexible Thickness Measurement
Instrument handles variety of coatings, thicknesses and substrates
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Cadmium Plate Turns Black
We are currently cadmium-plating fasteners in a cyanide bath and are finding that the finish turns black after four to six days. Parts come out of the process more or less bright white. After the cadmium plate we rinse and apply a chromate, rinse and dry. One fastener is a little yellowish after a couple of weeks, but the others that are black were plated only four days ago. Can you make any suggestions as to how to solve this problem?
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