bead blasting or even buffing on a wire may be sufficient. Remember once you have started the cleaning process you must always wear gloves as even the grease off your fingers will cause the plating to blister at a later date!
Electroplating, or electrolytic plating, is a technique in which a thin layer of metal is deposited, using an electric current, onto an object to enhance the surface characteristics. The actual specifics on electroplating are a bit technical. A process called hydrolysis distributes atoms evenly, ...
The surprising advantage of constructing an insert type piston ring having a groove cross section as explained above can be appreciated by noting the plating time and cost savings resulting therefrom as compared to the conventional ring. For example, for a hard chrome plated ring member having an...
chromium plating bath is based on chromic acid and contains predominantly hexavalent chromium in solution. A coat which is produced by this process and which has a relatively low hydrogen content is also described in this European patent. Further, European Patent Application EP 0 841 413 A1 ...
Waste of waiting time. Production lead time is tied up in waiting and queuing for the next sequence in the operation, typically when the flow of material (scheduling and housekeeping of raw materials), and information (process parameters, client specifications, traceability documentation etc) availabi...
Of particular importance is the achievement of good lubricity so as to reduce the physical effort required by the user during the wiping and drying process as much as possible. U.S. Pat. No. 3,463,735 issued to Stonebraker and Wise, Aug. 26, 1969, covers such a glass cleaning ...
Moreover, in the decorative trivalent chromium plating techniques of the technique described in the latter Non Patent Citation 1, every process is inferior to the hexavalent chromium plating in terms of the corrosion resistance and is difficult to apply especially to a part requiring high corrosion ...
An nickel plating layer (5a) intended for corrosion current distribution is formed over a body (2), and a 0.05 to 2.5 micrometers thick surface chrome plating l
It is now known as chromium (q.v.). Chrome continued in commercial use in English for "chrome steel" (steel with 2 percent or so chrome) after the chemical name was changed internationally. As a short form of chromium plating it dates from 1937. Related: Chromic....
The process was carried out at a temperature of 1000 °C for 24 h. The results showed that complex structural chromium plating together with the addition of strong carbide-forming elements (V and Mo) has a significant effect on the phase composition of the fabricated layer, where the ...