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Metal Finishing Books: What You Need & Where to Find Them

1. Great books for Anodizing & Aluminum Treatments

More anodizing books:
Artists Anodizing Aluminum : The Sulfuric Acid Process,
David Laplantz
Adhesive Bonding of Aluminum Alloys,
Edward W. Thrall, Raymond W. Shannon
Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys,
J.R. Davis
Aluminum: Technology, Applications, and Environment
Dietrich G. Altenpohl
The Technology of Anodizing Aluminum
Arthur William Brace, P.G. Sheasby


Aluminum How-To, Robert Probert


Light Metals Finishing Process Manual, David Montgomery


Surface Finishing and Treatment of Aluminum and its Alloys, Wernick, Pinner & Sheasby

2. The "Must Have" List for Electroplating.
No plating shop or plating library should open its doors without these five books on hand.


ASM Metals Handbook vol. 5 Surface Cleaning, Finishing, and Coating


Basic Practical Electroplating, GS Branch of AESF


Electroplating, Frederick A. Lowenheim


Electroplating Engineering Handbook, Lawrence Durney


Metal Finishing Guidebook & Directory, Elsevier

3. More "Classics" on general electroplating.


ASM Metals Handbook vol. 5 Surface Engineering


The Canning Handbook:
Surface Finishing Technology


Electrochemical Metallizing Principles and Practice, Marvin Rubinstein


Electrodeposition of Alloys, Abner Brenner


Electrodeposition, the Materials Science of Coatings and Substrates, Jack W. Dini


Installation and Maintenance in Electroplating Shops, Eric A. Ollard


Practical Electroplating Handbook, N.V. Parthasaradhy


Properties of Electrodeposited Metals and Alloys (more info soon)


Trouble in Your Tank?, Lawrence Durney


Water and Waste Control for the Plating Shop, Kushner & Kushner

4. Chrome Plating:

5. Electroless Plating:


Chromium Plating, Weiner & Walmsley


Hard Chromium Plating, Robert K. Guffie


Electroless Plating - Fundamentals & Applications, Mallory & Hajdu


Chemical (Electroless) Nickel Plating, G.G. Gawrilov

Electroless Nickel Plating
Wolfgang Riedel

6. Gold Plating

7. Plating on Plastic

8. Zinc Plating


Gold Plating Technology, Reid & Goldie


Standards and Guidelines for Electroplated Plastics, ASEP

 


Zinc Plating, Herb Geduld

 

9. Painting and Powder Coating


Coatings for Corrosion Prevention, American Society for Metals


Formulary of Paints and Other Coatings Vol. I, Michael and Irene Ash


Introduction to Paint Chemistry and Principles of Paint Technology, G.P.A. Turner


Industrial Painting: Principles and Practices, Norman R. Roobol


A Guide to High Performance Powder Coating. Bob Utech

10. Miscellaneous


Hazardous Waste Land Treatment, Kirk W. Brown, Gordon B. Evans, Jr. and Beth D. Frentrup


The Chemical Formulary Volume XXIII, H. Bennett, editor-in-chief


Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice, Amer Conf of Governmental Industrial Hygienists


Current Solutions to Hydrogen Problems in Steels, Interrante & Pressouyre


Metallic Coatings for Corrosion Control, V.E. Carter


Corrosion of Stainless Steels, A. John Sedriks


Machinery's Handbook, Erik Oberg, Franklin D. Jones and Holbrook L. Horton


Gold Refining, George Gajda

(more info soon)

Many of the best metal finishing books are out of print and hard to find. Some are expensive but poorly described by the book sellers. Finishing.com will provide cover photos and book reviews of these works, and multiple source them so if one dealer is out, you'll have alternatives.

The Joseph Mazia Memorial Research Library at finishing.com has hundreds of the best metal finishing books including all of the classics; please visit if you're in the area.

While this page is in progress, we will continue to refer you to some older pages at finishing.com for other books that have not yet been cataloged to this depth:

 


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