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Can electroless process or electroplating deposit Inconel 625?

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We are having a industrial hard shop and recently had an enquiry whether it is possible to have an electroless plating using Inconel 625 (Nickel alloy). I understand that this alloy has high corrosion resistance. Wanted to know whether such a process exists for this compound and who can help in this process.

GEORGE ABRAHAM
- KUWAIT

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There are no electroless processes for depositing alloys like Inconel.

Ron Duncan - LaVergne, Tennessee

Ed. note: It is our sad duty to alert the readers to the passing of Ron Duncan on Dec. 15, 2006. For those who would like to know more about him, a brief obituary opened Update No. 13 of our Metal Finishing Industry Update Podcast.

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April 5, 2011

Can hard chrome plating deposit Inconel 625?

arun v
plating shop employee - Dammam, Saudi Arabia
  ^- Privately contact this inquirer -^

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April 6, 2011

Sorry, Arun. Inconel and other nickel-chrome alloys (including stainless steels) cannot be produced by electroplating from a hard chrome plating bath or any other plating bath. Dr. David Lashmore, then of N.I.S.T., did produce an experimental multilayer plating with dozens of alternating microlayers of nickel and chrome, as an attempt to simulate stainless steel, but that's the closest anyone has come.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E. finishing.com Brick, New Jersey