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1. Electroplating organic materials
3. Finish for magnesium wheels
4. Electroplating shunts for solderability
5. Gold Plating of Wave Guides.
9. Black stains on Galvanized sheet
10. Tarnish/discoloration of nickel after semi-aqueous cleaning
12. Testing MIL-C-5541 chromate coatings
13. Electroless nickel coatings for the oil and gas industry
14. Gold plating, and questions on pulse plating
15. Finish for automotive oil filters
16. Waste treatment of zinc solution
17. Accelerated creation of patina on copper
18. E-nickel on aluminum
19. Blackening solution for stainless steel
20. Zinc whiskers
21. Electric heater problems, and zinc/cobalt plating vs. galvanizing
22. Wash primers on top of iron phosphate
23. Applying ruthenium platings/coatings
24. Activating Alloy 55 SST
25. Bright dipping aluminum castings
27. Hobbiest has tin plating questions
29. Where does Boron go when nickel plating
30. Etching platinum-irridium after EDM
33. Electropolishing of stainless steel
34. Can high pH corrode SST?
36. Brush electroplating machines
37. Albaloy, Miralloy, Optalloy copper/tin/zinc alloy plating
38. Sulfur-based electroless nickel
39. Insoluble anodes to prevent metal buildup in acid zinc?
40. Zinc carbonate for protection of galvanized surface
41. Black nickel process
43. Heat absorbing/heat resisting paint
44. Beginner's plating questions
45. Problems in zinc plating of spot-welded chassis
47. Alternative to ammonium bi-flouride
48. Materials for bushings of plating barrels
49. Passivating 316 SS
50. Plating E-nickel onto magnesium
51. Materials of construction for passivation process?
53. Jump starting e-nickel onto copper and brass
54. Low-resistance black coating on aluminum
57. Seeking supplier for electroplating fluids [Iceland]
58. Seeks info about electropolishing stainless steel
59. Nickel plating of antique marine hardware
61. Passivating an electroless nickel tank
62. Heat resistance of anodized aluminum
63. Proposed OSHA Std for exposure to Cr
64. Help a beginner to copper plating
67. Seeking supplier of do-it-yourself gold plating system [UK]
68. Copper sulphate crystals in plating tanks
71. Blast cleaning salt-contaminated steel
73. Does phosphating hurt stainless steel?
75. Use nickel anodes for nickel plating?
79. Alternatives to gold for contact surfaces
80. Minimizing bleedout from anodizing pits
83. Air emissions from sulfuric acid anodizing
84. Electropolishing stainless steel
85. Problem with electroforming copper
87. Environmentally friendly anti-fouling paint
88. Seeking room-temperature blackening solutions
90. Beginning in plating
91. How to plate onto titanium
93. Brush plating for automotive parts
97. Training in Electroplating
98. Electroplating with niobium?
100. Question about the Beilby layer
102. Cyanide Copper plating vs. Acid Copper plating
105. Anodize refuses to dye
107. Solubilities of DTC/metal precipitates
108. Barrel plating inconsistencies
109. Plating onto molybdenum
110. Need improved aluminum coating for oil well service
113. Zinc plating is rusting in blind holes
114. Zinc "gunning" supplies for ship repair
115. Improved process to finish aluminum for vacuum application
116. Shelf life of chromic acid anodize coating
118. Getting into the plating business
119. Equipment, new and used, for plastic media blasting
120. Standards for electropolishing
121. Needs supplier of brass plating chemicals
122. Seeking software to calculate plating area
123. Seeking general info on chrome plating and auto restoration
124. Best finish for immersion service?
125. Implications of phasing out Cadmium and Chromium
126. Equipment for solution monitoring and maintenance
127. Activating polished nickel without dulling
128. Zero discharge, anyone? Closed loop wastewater treatment
129. ASTM/Mil specs online, and surface prep of magnesium
130. Seeks technology and equipment for electroforming
131. Analyzing for zinc brighteners
132. Seeks literature on aluminum reflector surface gloss
133. Reprogramming lines and waste treatment costs
134. Training information for painters
136. Coloring of gold
137. Rectifiers and ripple
138. Rack plating with acid zinc
139. Why does this derusting trick work?
142. Alternative to zinc plating? Tired of whiskers
146. Do concentrations in phosphating baths decline?
147. Pricing of gold plating
148. Can nameplates, etc., be made via color anodizing?
151. Where to find meaning of German finish notes
152. Buffing problems
153. Black finish on gold
155. Wiping medical implants
156. Minimizing grain size in gold plating
157. Anodizing setup for student lab
159. Measuring copper thickness in plated holes
160. Substitute copper for half of the nickel?
161. Clear coating brass, copper and bronze
162. So who doesn't want to bronze baby shoes?
163. Seek shop to chrome plate plastic[MI,CA,NJ,CO,Ireland, UK, Australia, New Zealand]
164. How to remove carbonates from silver bath
166. Wet vs. dry blasting
167. Eutectoid plating?
168. Parting agents/passivation treatments for electroforming mandrels
170. Blackening/Phosphating of Stainless Steel
171. Tearing of Aluminum Extrusions During Buffing Operation
175. Experiences with black nickel plating?
177. Filter press cloth for nickel hydroxides
181. Paints to use for painting cleanrooms
182. Chemically polishing or electro-polishing silver
183. Two inquiries on plating stained-glass frames
187. What is DEFRIC - FTB 116?
188. Seeking alternative to amorphous fumed silica as gelling agent for brush plating
189. Can brass plating look like gold plating?
190. Maintaining low contact resistance on zinc plated chassis
191. Seeks info regarding pull-test / adhesion test
193. Corrosion of trivalent chrome vs. hexavalent
194. Methods of heating process solutions
195. Seeking info on gold plating transport data
196. Electroplating for a school science project
198. Need information on establishing an anodizing plant
202. Frostiness in electropolishing
203. How about plating by solution voltage rather than current density?
204. Black oxide solutions and equipment
205. Etching of copper roofing panels for Artwork
208. Pulse plating that reduces energy comsumption and new anodized colors?
210. Zinc-Nickel as replacement for cadmium
211. Passivation of series 400 SST
212. Can direct-fired embrittlement-relief ovens cause corrosion problems in the plating?
213. Can Titanium be electropolished?
214. Powder Coating exterior aluminum fences
216. Seeks info for deep etching stainless steel
217. Where does KOH come from in gold baths?
218. Problems in nickel barrel plating
219. Seeking info on galvanic corrosion
220. Masking problems
221. Cyanide bombs to clean up gold jewelry
222. Some questions about treating wastewater and refining waste
224. Inorganic gold dye
228. Need 10-gallon e-nickel tank
231. Help! Pitting and unwanted satinizing
236. Stripping galvanizing from pipe
238. Prepping a chilled cast-iron roll for chromium plating
239. Seeking a lustrous black coating for SST
240. Stripper for zinc die-castings
241. ISO 9000 Certification
242. Removing boron from wastewater
243. Will fume suppressants hurt bondability to chromic anodizing?
246. Polishing of stainless steel
247. Ammonia releases to air from etching of PCB's
249. Plating of pot metal
252. What will powdercoat stick to that is conductive?
253. Electropolishing concentrations and current densities
254. Chrome lookalike for furniture
255. Electroform hollow tapered tubing
257. Electroless nickel plating of ball valves
259. Electroless platinum onto iron powder
260. Immersion tin plating of circuit boards
262. Replating of antique camera parts
263. Teflon coating
264. Measuring surface tension of chromium plating baths
265. Electropolish beryllium
267. How much gluconate should be in aluminum cleaners?
268. Looking for vibratory barrels
269. Activated carbon for treatment of cyanide
270. What is the best casting alloy and how should it be treated?
271. Help! Anodize flakes off after baking
274. Will pulse plating harden the gold?
275. Need electroformer to make optical encoder wheels
276. Looking for electropolishing book
278. Adhesion of nickel plate onto Titanium
279. Seeking better treatment method for chrome etch
280. Need market data on heavy metal waste tonnage
281. Looking for cost analysis software for plating shops
283. Restoring 19th Century Door Hardware
284. Hobbyist plating and hobbyist addition agents
285. Need supplier for backyard plating shop
287. Reporting aluminum sulfate for sulfuric anodizing solutions
288. Electroless nickel to polymer bond strength
289. Brush (?) passivation of martensite
290. Roller burnishing
291. Zinc plating is too rough
292. Substitutes for MEK?
293. Iron plating
294. Cleaning anodized aluminum
295. HCN fumes from acid gold plating
297. Alodining of 19 foot aircraft extrusions
301. Zinc plating inside of gas tank
302. Silver plating copper tubes
303. Making sodium hypochlorite from salt
305. Suppliers of nickel brighteners
307. Seeking market research data
308. Replication of microstructures
314. Will anodized finish resist ammonium hydroxide?
316. Stainless steel conversion coatings
317. Are MSDS sheets needed for finished products?
318. Stabilizer for peroxide
319. Anodes for electro-osmosis
320. Gold plating of surgical instruments
321. Immersion gold plating of circuit boards
322. Generic brightener/leveler for copper electroforming
323. Adhesion onto lead bullets
324. Carbamates causing false cyanide reading?
325. Percent sulfate in aluminum anodize?
327. Topcoat for Corroding Tin on Steel?
328. Porcelain finishes for building exteriors
329. Refinishing aluminum and chrome wheels
332. Yellow-green stains on anodized aluminum
336. Stainless parts rusting! Need a fix and a shop to do it.
338. Zinc plating of carburetors
342. Seeking mil spec for cadmium
344. Cyanide-free conversion coating for aluminum
346. Coating for mold cavities
350. How to prep tungsten carbide for plating
352. Black chromate turns green
354. Passivation of hypo tubing
356. Tin-plated wire turns black in oven
358. High voltage electrocleaning
360. Air emissions from electroless nickel tanks
362. Zinc-cobalt plating (rack)
363. Hard anodizing of high silicon aluminum
364. Tinning a copper bowl
365. Electroless chrome coating solution?
366. Red rust on zinc plated parts
367. Optical quality polishing of stainless
368. Surface treatment for zinc diecastings
371. Show me porosity in chrome
373. Vapor forming vs. electroforming
374. Cyanide-free restorations
376. Electropolishing SST & aluminum
377. Plating chess pieces
378. Plating baby shoes
379. Platinum electroplating
380. Cleaning weld oxide on stainless steel
381. Insufficient E-nickel corrosion resistance
382. Purification and reconcentration of phosphoric acid
384. CVD deposited layer as a diffusion barrier
385. Extending the life of chrome stripping bath
387. Tin/nickel electroplating
388. Research on the plating industry
389. Phosphating of zinc die-cast parts
391. Electroless nickel MIL-C-26074 obsolete?
392. Cleaning of gold and silver jewelry
394. Ford in search of information on potential auto component coatings
395. Alkaline rust remover
396. Need a low temp. firearm coating
397. Are fume supressants sufficient for chrome emissions standards?
398. Immersion Zinc FlakeChromate Dispersion Coating
399. Need coating for 3XX sst to prevent stress corrosion
401. Seeking a supplier of electroless platinum baths
402. Armoloy
403. Bar code extrusions through caustic and Nitric??
404. Looking for non-cyanide copper plating solution for steel.
406. Acids in Watt's bath
409. Looking for additive to produce wrinkle finish
410. Seeking a supplier of good ultrasonic equipment
411. Preparation and cleaning techniques of aluminum
413. Cyanide copper plating with graphite
414. Wood finisher seeking an epoxy supplier
415. Problems with plating silver on glass
417. Two new technologies useful for chrome deposition
418. Standards for powder coating on aluminum extrusions
419. Plate tin onto aluminum stampings or reel-to-reel
420. Removing scratches from forged aluminum wheels
421. Would like to know the units of measurement of surface texture
422. The thickness of immersion silver coatings on brass
423. Seeking information on electroless nickel
424. Home plating of sculptures
425. Nickel plate high volume of tungsten carbide pellets
426. Seeking advice on how to finish metal calibration targets
427. Brush finishing aluminum
429. Looking for Sel-Rex contact information
432. Chromium plating is gray instead of bright
433. Polishing aluminum to a mirror-like finish
434. Seeking vendor of non-cyanide silver plating baths
436. Trace of copper after chromate conversion coating on 380 aluminum
437. Information and technical advice on electroforming
438. A product called Nickelon
439. Can beryllium be electroformed?
441. Process control of chromate conversion baths
442. Platinum plate a handful of prototype parts
443. Organic acid inhibitors in HCL pickling baths
445. Need to plate stainless steel plates with gold
447. Black chromate onto zinc die-casting
448. Looking for satin nickel plating process
449. Direct metallization on ABS and ABS/blended polymer
450. Effect of antimony in silver deposits
451. Need gold stripper for semiconductors
452. Diffraction gratings
453. Jellify concentrated acids?
454. Flash to Zartan, Flash to Zartan, Bzzzz, Buzzz, Pop.
455. Filiform corrosion of thin Aluminum films
456. Metal Finishing Guidebook
457. MIL-C-81706, Conversion coating of Aluminum
458. Dry to the touch, 72 hour Zinc phosphate?
459. Gold? We don't need no stinkin' gold!
461. Chemicals to clean Five-Stage phosphate machine
463. Reducing Surface roughness of Nickel-Iron deposits
464. More info needed on Counterflow Rinsing
466. Electropolishing
468. Advise on bismuth or bismuth-tin plating
470. Plate aluminum onto CuSi4Mn
473. Silver tank with excessive carbonate level
475. Chemical analysis technique for acid etch bath?
476. Alkaline processes without cyanide?
477. Problem with Wood's nickel strike bath
478. Pd on lead frames
479. Pickling and passivating of welded carbon steel pipes
481. Wastewater treatment for pyrophosphate copper
482. Hydrogen embrittlement
483. Looking for practical ideas for tank design
484. Problems with electroless nickel layer
485. Chromated zinc isn't conductive enough
486. Info about mechanical plating
487. Copper electroforming of a 20" trophy
488. Metal finishing VHS videos
490. Coating materials for use in geothermal power plants
491. Problems in copper bath
493. Smoothing black enamel on antiques
495. Stainless steel vs. rubber lined piping in desalinization plant
496. Nickel onto a conductive substrate
497. Black hardcoat anodize 4032 aluminum?
499. Marine corrosion preventing coatings
501. Black anodizing aluminum rivets
503. Problems in acid zinc plating screws
505. Discoloration of anodized aluminum
507. Pd/Ni preplated leadframes
508. Gold plating of printed circuit boards
509. Chrome plate onto K-Monel 500
511. Waste powder
512. Anode selection for high voltage electrolysis
513. Looking for alternatives to conversion coating of aluminum
515. Need fresnel lenses
516. Rochelle copper plating
517. Sell us a nickel plating process license
518. Painting with electricity
519. Cost of wastewater treatment
520. How to process parts through a return type automatic machine?
521. Industry accepted guidelines regarding cosmetic flaws
522. Priming galvanized steel guttering before priming
524. Cathode materials for chromic acid anodizing
525. Silver sputtering
526. Reliable pretreatment for magnesium castings
528. Problems with "patchy anodization"
530. Electropolishing a 12,000 gallon stainless reservoir
531. Searching for black oxide specifications
532. Recycling of galvanic sludges
533. Final rinse before powder coating
534. How to brass plate steel
536. Electrodialytic purification of chromic acid anodizing solutions
537. Problems with solder over gold plated Cu
538. Finishing screw drivers
540. Is copper undercoat needed between aluminum and e-nickel?
542. Want to touch up rhodium or gold plated stainless
544. Corrosion resistance of different resins
545. Garage electroplating
546. Ferrocote"
547. "Dacrotize" process
548. Is this chromate or is it chrome plating?
551. Composite plating
552. Need a rubberized dip process
553. Blackening hard chrome plating
554. Okay to use aluminum cathodes in hard anodize?
555. Zincate, gold, copper stream of consciousness
558. Seeking info on alternatives to nickel striking
560. Looking for powder coating equipment and supplies
561. Power supply for small-scale anodizing
562. Polarizing of anodes
564. Thickness measurement ternary alloy on steel
565. Using Magnesium Oxide in electroplating wastewater treatment.
566. Copper / Silver plating of organic material
567. Ventilation of large galvanizing tanks
568. Construction plans for power supplies
570. Electropolish to surface roughness less than .03 micrometer?
572. Salt spray standards for electroless nickel
574. Chrome plating plastics
575. Chrome plating aluminum
576. Alternatives to electroless Ni coatings
577. Dry film lubricants
578. Automated machinery to blast light gauge steel
580. QC problem in leadframe plating
581. Comprehensive guide to anodizing and gold plating
582. "Black Diamond" finish
583. Control of gold color
584. 7075-T6 fasteners okay on 5052 panels?
585. Instrumentation to quantify scratches
586. Nickel, copper, or chrome plating onto plastic
587. Need to repassivate after welding?
588. Nickel acetate seal
589. Poor adhesion in electroless nickel
590. Anyone experienced in magnesium phosphate?
591. Looking for a biodegradable stainless steel cleaner
595. Cold black coloring process for D2 steel
596. Solderable metal film on vycor or silica
597. Does decorative chrome plating effect quality?
598. Anodic films produced from sulfuric acid baths
600. How to cool a hard anodize tank?
601. Coating alumina with copper
603. "Sanford Hardcoating" process
604. Connecting two threaded aluminum parts
606. Q.C. limits for chloride in anodizing process
608. Accelerated corrosion tests
609. Problems with inconsistent adhesion
610. Some questions about chromate coating
611. How to eliminate nodules on the edges of dies
612. Restoration of old model railroad track
613. Restoration of an old shotgun
614. Electroplating nickel/cobalt and silicium deposit
615. Looking for a source of Iridite
617. Gold recovery
618. Sulfur dioxide exposure testing
619. E-copper as heat treat stopoff?
620. Drying blind holes
621. FAQs re. ISO-9002
623. Etching aluminum for paint adhesion
624. Iron plating small copper statues
626. Quantified plating costs
627. Effectiveness of chromate passivation
628. Passivation of 400 series SST
629. Anodizing high Cu and Si aluminum
631. Black coating that won't fluoresce
632. Mil specs on the net
633. Reuseable plugs to keep paint out of holes
634. Pinholeing contamination in white powder
635. Seeking sodium hydroxide-aluminum mix for recycling
636. Preventing outgassing of anodized parts
637. Simple silver and gold plating of brass
638. Nickel versus Tin plated wire
639. Passivation of 303 stainless steel
642. Repairing contaminated circuit boards
644. Porosity test for gold
645. How to brass tint lead, zinc, and tin
646. Looking for a very fast stripping method
647. Darkening aluminum alloy castings
648. Information on Zinc Cobalt plating
649. Clear coating for aluminum motorcycle engine parts
650. Cleanroom for painting
652. Nickel-free plating of jewelry
653. Bonding circuit boards to alloy frames
654. How to identify this coating?
655. Will an Ampere Hour meter help with anodizing process?
656. White (RAL 9016 )"
657. Measuring reflectivity
658. Handling chromate waste from tarnish preventer
660. Effect of sulfuric anodizing on fatigue strength
661. Au/Sn brazing problem
664. Chromate conversion coating on screwed & glued aluminum
666. Information on EMI shielding on aluminum
667. Looking for articles on hydrogen embrittlement
668. BLACK-T
669. Looking for a coating for a motorscrew
670. What type of metals and finishes are required for rotogravure press?
671. In need of a galvanic series chart
672. Plating emission factors
673. Anode and cathode distance
674. Floating waste treatment sludge
675. Plating nonmetallics
676. Restoring magnalite
677. Metal deposition on barrels instead of on the parts
678. Wear resistance plating for AZ91 magnesium
679. Wear resistant coating for A356 aluminum
681. Rilsan over stainless steel
682. Electroless for brazing applications
685. Microarc oxidation?
686. Platinum problem
687. Electroless nickel with particles like silicium or teflon
688. Mg and Al coatings for x-ray anodes, companies or suggestions
689. Non-reflective clear coat for aluminium
690. Electroplating tin on steel rods
692. Middle school electroplating
693. Silver nitrate solution for glass silvering
694. Black chrome
695. Making water-soluble photopolymer conductive
696. Phosphorus content of EN coatings
697. Seeking a non-reflective clear coat for aluminium
698. Starting a new business--need some direction, can you help?
702. Zinc Chromate Paint Replacement
704. Electropolishing
705. Information on screw finishes?
706. Want equipment to chrome auto rims
708. Getting started in plating
710. Coating for 304 SS for wear resistance
712. Stripping Solutions for Dry Film Lubes
713. Chrome Plating Bumpers and Copper
714. Deplating Brass
716. How to test plating adhesion of electroless/watts plating
718. Control help for OD chromates in tube / wire applications
719. Stainless steel passivation methods and articles
720. White rust on galvanized steel
722. Parkerizing or phosphatizing kit sought [Europe]
723. Stone Guard or Stone Hard
724. Picric Acid Replacements?
725. Coating for brass
728. Agitation equipment for passivating washers
730. Anodized surface for electrical insulation
732. Plating Brighteners without sulfur
733. Method to analyze coumarin
734. XRF coating thickness measurements-calibration
736. Anodize or plating process to control thermal properties
737. Stripping Chromium Plate from Aluminum
738. Please help me with my project
740. Tin Pest/tin disease/tin whiskers
741. Opalescence or opalizing of aluminum
742. Anodes for Ni sulfamate electroforming
743. Stuck in the 70's
744. Low temperature cleaners
745. Electrodeposition of silver
746. Nitriding and carbonitriding
747. Alodine drying procedures
748. Electroless Nickel or Electroless Zinc?
751. Oxidation of aluminium without electricity
752. Chrome removal question
753. Electropolishing in "stacked" parts
754. Paint booth lighting
755. Tinting galvanized material
756. Japan finishing process for aluminum
757. Brass tarnish removal on an antique cash register
758. Machined dies for transfer molding
759. Need Plating of Osmium onto wafers
760. Industrial hard chrome
761. Pollution free Galvanization
762. Puma C12 Activator
763. Gold plating on auto brand emblems
764. Rainbow Passivation
765. PO4 and plating tanks
766. Blackening stainless steel
767. Seeking information about electropolishing stainless steel
768. Nickel: electroless or not & what thickness?
769. Brush plating of aluminum
770. 50-500um alumina coating
771 Reclaiming gold and nickel
771b. Reclaiming precious metal from circuit boards, etc.
772. Chrome embrittlement relief
773. pH measuement
774. Colored dying of yellow chromate on chloride zinc
775. Patina finish on big brass bands
776. Galvanizing problem
777. Non skid coating for aluminum
778. More replies to passivation of stainless steel
779. Removing tarnish on brass, copper, bronze
779a. Remove lacquer on old copper molds
779b. Ugly white patches on bronze statue
779c. Remove tarnish on pennies, copper, and silver
779f. Sealing copper cupboard fronts
780. Cleaning oxidized 5086 aluminum plate
783. Copper wire detinning
784. EMI/RFI Shielding
786. Training Program Help Needed for Metal Polishing
788. Zinc plating problem with surface inclusions
790. Green patina on copper
791. Seeking method for chem film [or iridite] removal
792. Stripping of Neodymium
793. Nickel strippers
795. Electropolishing sst cutters
796. Hydrogen embrittlement
797. Clear hard anodize coating--Reynolds?
798. Painting/protecting brass elevator doors
799. Electrochemical production of ferric flocculant
800. Aluminum polishing
801. Requesting assistance with paint adhesion on a galvanized surface
802. Looking for a plating company in our area
803. Zinc plating problem
805. Problem with anodize fading
806. Urgently need anodizing service!
807. Powder coating and automotive industry?
808. Tin plating waste treatment
809. Splash color anodize - how?
810. Who can plate leaded windows?
811. Heard of "thinnoids"?
812. Chrome plating
816. Paint sludge recycle
818. Lacquer designed to withstand a bake
819. Silver Sax finish flaws
821. Eliminating unintentional solder adhesion to Zinc & Yellow Chromated surfaces
822. Conversion coatings on aluminum
823. Need vacuum Cad
825. Source for microfabrication of anodized aluminum films
827. Finishing of model aircraft engines
828. Coating thickness and electrical resistance
829. Bipolar Anodes
830. Magnesium Chrome Plating
832. Plating after epoxy coloring
833. H&H factor in Silver Plating
834. Galvanneal Off Gassing
835. Glycolic acid use in metal finishing
836. Poly OND or Poly ORD
837. Looking for a powder supplier
838. Rust patinas
839. Electropolishing of high Ni alloys [alloy 42]
840. Seeking Information about Powder Coating
842. Can't find Versene "T" or Versene 220, for that matter
843. Electroless Silver
844. Nonmetallic in Electroless Ni
845. EP'ing the inside surface of Stainless Steel cans
847. Coating thickness testing devices
848. Copper Anode formulations, what's the difference?
849. National fastener act
850. Carbon anodes for electrogalvanising
851. Hard clear coat for gold
852. Difficult Electrolytic Nickel Plating
853. Passivating Stainless Steel 416 Grade T
854. Black oxide - cold method vs. hot method
855. Polishing Bath Additives
856. Chemical Volume Control Needed
857. Silver Plating on Aluminum
858. Epoxy Polymer Concrete Aluminum Bond
859. What's happening with ISO?
860. Electropolishing of semiconductor wafers
861. Humidity failures on waterborne coatings for plastics
862. Reliable Zinc Alloy Plating Sources?
863. Passivation Chemicals
865. Brass electroplating
866. Low-friction surfaces
867. Trivalent chrome staining
868. Pits on ground electroless nickel plating
871. Aluminum/epoxy adhesion problem
872. In search of M-nitrobenzene sulfonic acid
873. Hard chrome plating thickness measurement
874. Zinc phosphate as galvanic corrosion protection?
875. Chrome ion contamination
876. Polishing compounds
877. Matte/polished finishes for stainless plates
878. How to get uniform electroless zincation on aluminium used in Si chips?
880. Sierra Silver Spray Solution
881. Corrosion Protection of zinc plating solution
882. Hydrogen Embrittlement in Chromium Plating
883. Hull Cell
884. Plating on Mu metal
885. Testing solution for copper & acid
886. Electropolishing
888. Copper deposition
889. Electropolishing NiTi
890. Phosphate coating and hydrogen embrittlement
891. Need chromic acid pump
893. Cyanide-Containing Degreaser
894. Thermal Conductivity of Anodize?
896. Black anodizing
897. Electropolishing nickel-titanium[nitinol]
898. Need bright chrome plated steel
899. Electroplating organic material, can it be done?
900. Seeking a supplier to plate Iridium oxide on Titanium
901. Iron anodes
902. Plating off the beaten path
903. Looking for Thermal Conductive Powder Coating
904. Finishing Suppliers in the Bearing Industry
905. Future of Hard Chrome Plating
906. Need help with Silver plating and threaded Locknuts
907. How To - Black chromate over zinc on Powder Metal
908. CARC and Powder Coat
909. Passivation with citric acid
910. Drying brass spot-free
911. Aluminium coating polymers
912. Immersion tin coating
913. Antique gold
914. URGENT - Need to prove Zinc Phosphate Removed by Grit Blast
915. Options for soak cleaner disposal
916. Sensitizing and the Brashear process
919. Electropolishing of Aluminium, theories
920. Color chart book for RAL standards
921. Calculating explosivity limits
922. Woods Nickel [Barrel] plating of SST
923. Need Yamaha Plating System
924. Edge effects in nickel sulfamate
926. Environmental Compliance info needed for hard coat anodize process
927. Need process for electroless nickel upon Molybdenum
929. Vendor/chemicals to apply Cu/Sn alloys--Alballoy process
931. Alternatives to Chromium and Cadmium Plating
932. Reducing Agent for Electroless Copper Deposition
933. Permalloy Alloy Plating?
934. Coating for metallizing nonconductors
934a. Making cotton rolls conductive
935. Chrome Plating Tank Size
937. Anodizing titanium alloys
938. Need electropolish, passivation, of stainless steel
940. Benchmarking for QS9000
941. What are the top five metals [by weight] used for plating?
945. E coat manufacturers - Who are they?
946. Anodizing questions
947. Non-Conductive Deposits on Expanded Metal Anodes.
948. Need to Lacquer Brass in a machine center setting
949. Metal Finishing of Investment Castings
950. Cleaning before plating Electroless Nickel on TUNGSTEN-CARBIDE
951. Need books on lacquering brass
952. How do I activate heat treated Ni
954. plating small car bits
955. Aluminum [or Metallic] Coating
956. Mechanical polishing of stainless steel
958. Soldering problems with bright Tin Plate
959. Young's modulus/tensile strength of powder coatings.
960. Black zinc phosphate
961. Quench Polish Quench
962. Anodic Treatment of Stainless Steel
964. Source For Anodize Dyes
967. Anodizing plant capacity?
968. Need info on Powder Coating
970. Chemical process videos wanted
971. Refining of Precious Metal
974. Need Spot Plating Procedures and equipment for Chromium
975. Powder Paint Visible Emissions from Bake Oven Exhaust
976. Need NiP or Cu Plating on 6 ft Aluminum Part
977. Plating of semiconductor leadframes
978. Platinum plating on Titanium
979. Finishing aluminum furniture
981. Polishing titanium
982. Gunsmith Bluing
983. Looking for gold imitating plating
984. Nickel Electropolishing
985. Anodizing Aluminium
985A. Looking for information on anodizing
986. General Plating Area Environmental Requirements
987. Jiggle Cell
988. Zinc-Nickel
989. Cadmium Replacements
990. Chemically prepping aluminum/graphite [Al/Gr]composite material for plating
991. Dagwood
992. Powder coating of large items
993. Barrel Plating Fundamentals?
994. Formula wanted for brightener for citric acid gold bath
998. Red smut after bright dipping
999. Need help painting metal surface


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