A.I am an experienced hard chrome plater for the last 30 years. I specialised in Hard chrome plating of piston rods, engine valves, strut rods, pneumatic cylinders, etc. Your problem of pin holes can be solved by giving a light wash in 1:3 HCl and then polishing with fine grade sheet...
But assuming that it is real nickel-chrome plating, it poses no acute danger ... although some people are allergic to nickel or acquire allergy to it ("nickel itch)". Since the USA has no prohibition yet against nickel even in rings worn 24/7 or in pierced jewelry, I don't think ni...
Well done electroplating can adhere perfectly. There is a mechanical procedure called the Ollard test which can be used to attempt to pull the plating off the part; when the plating is perfect, the plating or the substrate will rip apart rather than the interface between them. The inside of...
Seriously, a chrome plating business is a real commitment that you don't want to enter into lightly. My suggestion is that you visit a few plating shops, then look over some used plating equipment that is for sale and investigate chrome plating businesses that are for sale, to acquire a r...
plating shop - Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia 2004 A.The short answer is that steel doesn't do that (go into solution) in alkaline solutions, as we can see from the millions of steel anodes and steel anode baskets that have been used in electrocleaning tanks and alkaline plating tanks ...
I think that the bulk of your electricity is turning into heat and not going to plating. Your comments please. James Watts - Navarre, Florida ?Dear Fikret MUTLU, please specify tank capacity & area of component , as well as how you are controlling temperature?
Q.OPEN WOUNDS ON HANDS AND ARMS AFTER CHROME PLATING FROM CHEAP CHROME PLATED CHINESE MADE WRENCHES DETACHED FROM WRENCHES -- I AM A PROFESSIONAL AUTO MECHANIC AGED 55. I DID NOT REALISE AT THE TIME, BUT AFTER USING THESE WRENCHES (THAT I PURCHASED FROM "AUTO ZONE" IN CALIFORNIA, FOR A...
I think you'd need to work with one or more plating shops, advising them what is known, and requiring regular testing of conductivity until you have a much fuller data set. Alternately, the process suppliers do a great deal of in-house research, and if you are willing to limit yourself...