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4000. Leadframe solder plating cost?
4001. Metal Parts that are Nickel Plated but are still RUSTING
4002. Looking for automotive exterior plastic chroming service
4003. Aluminum Water Staining
4004. TITANIUM COATING ON MOTORCYCLE FORK TUBES
4005. Removing corrosion from chrome plating
4006. BUMPER PRIMING INFORMATION NEEDED
4007. Phosphate substitute?
4008. Plating leaves/cones etc
4009. PLATING OF STAINED GLASS JEWELRY BOXES
4010. Analytical methods needed for a nickel-phosphorus electroplating bath
4011. Small Dia Chrome plated hollow
4013. Grey colour in Natural Anodized Aluminum
4014. HIGH TEMPERATURE PAINTS
4015. Problems with decorative chroming
4016. Looking for material to protect clear plastic from abrasion/wear
4017. Corrosion Prevention
4018. Ti finishings
4019. Zinc plated steel current terminals
4020. THIN FILMS
4021. Chrome Protection Products
4022. Surfactant
4023. E-coat provider
4024. Separation of Free Acid from Metal Ions in Electropolish
4025. Graphite Cathode Question
4026. Protective Coating for Magnesium-Aluminum Alloys
4027. Searching for EMI/RFI Plating Companies!
4028. Search for local chrome plater - plastic parts
4029. Removing varnish from brass
4030. Measurement of copper thickness
4031. Market Research Data
4032. Pitting and rough plate of nickel sulfamate
4033. Plating On Non-Conductive Surfaces..Flowers
4034. Chrome & Chelates
4035. Patina green
4036. Conductive finish for colled rolled steel
4037. Galvanized steel-Iron phosphate pretreatment
4038. Activation Nimonic
4039. Tin plating on Aluminum
4040. Photoeffects of potassium dichromate
4041. Ceramic layer on magnesium
4042. How to black dye aluminum castings
4043. Copper flashing
4044. Corrosion Resistance of Alodine Treated Aluminum
4045. Searching for Black chrome
4046. Touching Up Powder Coating
4047. Chemical Storage
4048. help please!!!
4049. Monitoring Pretreatment Variables
4050. Electroplating ping pong balls
4051. Kesternich Testing
4052. GOLD FINISH FOR SCIENCE PROJECT
4053. GRAY SPRAY PAINT FOR ABS PLASTIC
4054. Tamarin Hull Coating
4055. Passivation of Stainless Steel
4056. Rhodium transformation
4057. Zenith cub
4058. Hard anodizing of piston ring grooves
4059. How do I plate out Zinc Sulfate?
4060. Blister after 2nd E'less
4061. Bluing firearms
4062. Nitric Acid?
4063. Chrome plating
4064. 304 Stainless in Cookware Product
4065. Corroded aluminum
4066. Clogging of gauges in EPP system
4067. Plating control system
4068. Amorphous Deposit of Ni-W
4069. How to clean hot rolled steel for preparation of a rust finish?
4070. Phosphoric Rock
4071. MATERIALS THAT CAN BE ANODIZED
4072. Analysis of Sodium Sulphate in Nickle Baths
4073. TOC Analyzer
4074. Zincating of aluminum- single or double and why?
4075. Titanium plating
4076. Brass Plating - Imitation Gold
4077. Preparation of stainless steel prior to plastering
4078. Looking for aluminum shelving
4079. Black Oxide Finishing
4080. Looking for Large Vibratory Polishing Equipment
4081. Metallizing ABSPC blends
4082. Brightness in galvanizing
4083. Is chrome reused?
4084. Stainless steel brown oxide removal?
4085. Aisi 316L scho40scho 80
4086. Passivation of titanium
4087. Electropolishing for Nitinol wires
4088. Powder coating polycarbonate and its process
4089. Metal finishing need
4090. Anodizing Aluminum Supplier
4091. Aluminum corrosion while touching stainless steel 304
4092. How to prevent galling on stainless steel bolts & nuts
4093. Clawfoot Bathtub - Feet
4094. Polypropylene coated steel sewer drains
4095. Staining after bake
4096. Rust converter
4097. Clear-coating for costume plated Writing Pen tubes
4098. Looking for Solder Flux X 41 C
4100. Electroplating Aluminum, Trials , 1 Mol Solution
4101. Easy system to detect Zinc metal, 0-250 ppm
4102. Tin whiskers in electronic
4103. EN CleaningCleanroom packaging
4104. Ammonia reduction
4105. Cleaning process for high-polish brass
4106. ANODIZED AEROSALS ?
4107. HARD ANODISING COLOUR
4108. Mg alloys finishes
4109. TARNISHING BRASS
4110. Protecting metallic structure against HCl Vapors
4111. Electropolishing silver
4112. Plating charged magnet assemblies
4113. Locate Rapid Electroplating Process, Chicago
4114. Hexavalent chrome
4115. Tests for nitric acid re-use as passivation bath
4116. BETTER ADHESION PERFORMANCE ON CAST IRONSTEEL
4117. Aging effects on electropolished stainless steel?
4118. Aluminum finish or plating
4119. Electrostatic Spraying
4120. Jailed for blackening metals with cyanides
4121. Removing polymer release agent
4122. Free-standing gold foils
4123. Looking for a powder coating bondo
4124. Used Anodizing Line? Anyone know where to find one?
4125. HOW TO SET-UP A SIMPLE HOME ELECTROPLATING SYSTEM
4126. Iron plating
4127. Nickel plating processes info needed
4128. Chrome Plating bronze??? commercial dive hat
4129. Antique finish cement statuary
4130. Coating on composite ?
4131. Chrome plating and coloring of stainless steel
4132. Fluidized Sand Bed
4133. Anodizing stripping
4134. Why does copper sulphate induce a kind of rust so quickly on a nail?
4135. Basics of electroplating
4136. Chemistry project
4137. Gold plating Specifications
4138. Looking for an aluminum vacuumizing co.
4139. Concrete protection in wastewater treatment plant
4140. Salt spray failures
4141. How can I get a chrome look from my aluminium?
4142. Air Agitation Pollution Prevention
4143. Polish my aluminium?...Please
4144. Cadmium Plated or Galvanized Bolts?
4145. Woods Nickel Strike Anodes
4146. Gold electroforming
4147. Copper on to Nickels
4148. Removing scratches from stainless steel appliances
4149. Pre-plate with nickel for gold plating on brass
4150. Pretreatment before stoving paint how?
4151. Ultrasonic degreasing Evaluation
4152. What Coating Should be on Stainless Steel?
4153. Hard chrome plated small tubes with plating on inside
4154. Poor adhesion of Nickel plated onto Nickel
4155. Low friction coating[µ from 0.2 to 0.25]
4156. Help me PLEASE ! Electroforming Problem
4157. Rag-Wheel Fast Cutting Buffing Compound Wanted
4158. Yellow marks on stainless steel after passivation?
4159. Stripping nickel from bronze
4160. Passivation of sandblasted stainless steel
4161. Etching technology for leadframes
4162. Parachlorobenzotrifluoride, [PCBTF} thinner
4163. Pitting on silver
4164. PVD INFO NEEDED & EQUIPMENT
4165. CHROMATE PROBLEM
4166. PTFE coating on Steel
4167. Anodizer needed!
4168. Painting fishing lures
4169. Iron in acid zinc plating
4170. Tarnishing of brass and copper plating
4171. Plating plastics
4172. Black Finish for Cast Iron
4173. Purchase anodizing aluminum-coils equipment
4174. Alternative to TiNTiCN for S-7 Tool Steel?
4175. Iron Phosphate Coating Weight
4176. Anodize aluminum boats
4177. Decorative Nickel Tank Problem
4178. Electro-Gilding?
4179. Nickel Teflon Coating On Nitrided Steel Concerns
4180. Waste Water Treatment System info needed
4181. Cyanide in Domestic Wastewater Treatment Effluent
4182. Looking for a Iridite 14-2 supplier
4183. Non-cyanide silver
4184. Very Thick electroless nickel plating
4185. Looking for PTFE for E-ni, and black chrome supplier
4186. Non-fluorescent metal surface coating
4187. Surface finishing of Ti-6-4
4188. 9th grade electroplating science fair project
4189. Reactions with Black Phosphate Oxide coating
4190. EMIRFI tests and specs
4191. Machining and hardening Beryllium ?
4192. Salt Spray or Humidity Test for Passivated Stainless Steel?
4193. Electrocleaner Foam Dissipation Tests
4194. Chemicals used in tin fusing
4195. Nickel Deposition by Simple Boiling
4196. Lazer Temperature Depth Measure
4197. Colour anodising of Ti
4198. Hard Coatings on Undersize Ti 6-4 Shafts
4199. Plating non metallic items
4200. Aluminum FoundryBlacksmithing tricks of the trade WANTED
4201. Translucent mirror finish on acrylic?
4202. Pulse current to electroform nickel
4203. C on stainless steel
4204. Treatment of Black Dye
4205. Electrocoat Apu-60
4206. Improve zinc chromating or shift to brass plating
4207. Bright Nickel Plating - Burnt on HCD area
4208. Touch up of Zinc Chromate Finished Steel
4209. Blue Quarters?
4210. Automated Precious Metal Plating Line
4211. Cobalt plating on carbide
4212. Getting fine control of hard anodize thickness
4213. Bright Dip System Needed
4214. Embrittlement "saving"
4215. Post drag out recovery of gold via IX
4216. Safe finishes for baby furniture
4217. Stripping Nickel Chrome Plating
4218. Urethane resin suppliers in the UK
4219. HELP....to build home-brew chrome shop
4220. PEARLBRITE SATIN PROBLEM
4221. Cooling Accessories For Chrome Needed
4222. Electropolish of NiTinol
4223. Plating Automotive parts
4224. How to remove the chrome plating from camera parts?
4225. Copper plating problems
4226. Dust on stainless steel surface after wet blasting
4227. Decorative Plating Shops
4228. What spec is needed for zinc
4229. Flame spray information needed
4230. Wood door finisher needed
4231. RILSAN COATING SOURCE WANTED
4232. Hard surfacing for abrasive wear resistance
4233. Electropolishing
4234. Corrosion in electrolytic capacitors
4235. SERVICES NEEDED : Continuous Wire Plating
4236. Powdercoat Chemical Analysis
4237. Immersion nickel on aluminum?
4238. Electroless Nickel Plating of Powder Metal Products
4239. STAT BRONZE
4240. Silver Plating, Tarniban and QQ-S-365 Grade A
4241. Wear Coatings for Aluminum Bearing Surface
4242. Debris, black anodizing, problems
4243. Weld seam and edge of galvanneal steel
4244. Good adhesion without tin-palladium activation
4245. Chrome window trim to black
4246. Removing nickel from brass
4247. In search of chemicals for steel etching
4248. Blackening aluminium [and alloys] for optical parts
4249. Need to run sulfur dioxide corrosion test [DIN 50018, or ASTM G87}
4250. Tellurium- Help
4251. Cyanide Wastewater treatment problems [batch system]
4252. Passivation of coloured titanium
4253. Chrome Plating
4254. Removing Nickel from Brass components
4255. Wanted to start a new hobby that I can learn
4256. Titanium coated piston rings
4257. Need help to plate pot metal!
4258. Pitting and Uneven on silver plating
4259. Hard water problem!
4260. Copper paints
4261. WET SPRAY
4262. Color variation in bulk anodizing
4263. Looking for a liquid metal plating to paint onto copper
4264. Metals to be plated before brass
4265. Deposition of tungsten
4266. Finishing Aluminum and Zinc
4267. How Does Soy Sauce Remove Tarnish From Pennies?
4268. Find e-coat equip. and how to info
4269. Refinishing cook stove
4270. Filtering 20L tanks
4271. BrassTarnish
4272. Looking for heat resistant powder and pretreatment
4273. Wanted: Salt Fog Chamber
4274. Potassiun Gold Cyanide
4275. Solvents used in vapor degreasing
4276. POLISHING ALUMINIUM
4277. Electrophoretic coating instead of brass plating
4278. NaOH free Electroless Cu Solution?
4279. Iridium Plating
4280. Looking for an alternative for Black Chrome
4281. OUTGASSING BUBBLES FROM CAST IN PAINT
4282. Less than 1 micron coating on steel
4283. Water based polyurethanes- flexible film former
4284. Silane-Zr sealers for use to prepare galvanizing for powder coating
4285. Zinkaluminum aloy treatment HELP needed
4286. Gold plating sterling silver?
4287. Electroplated Zinc-Iron
4288. Use of Galvaprep SG
4289. Anodized Aluminum vs. Hydrated Lime
4290. INFO ABOUT GALVANIZING NON CYANIDE PROCESS
4291. Zinc Cobalt on 380 Aluminum Die Cast components
4292. EN plating of Pulp and Paper industry components
4293. Etchant chemicals used for brass
4294. Help with powder coating IR lamps
4295. Watts vs Woods Nickel Strike
4296. Spotting out in Rack plated Acid Zinc components
4297. Installation of Chem Film operation
4298. Friction on sliding hoses
4299. Collaboration required for Automatic Ni Cr Plant
4300. Electroforming Alloys
4301. HARD WATER
4302. BlisteringFlaking Plate on High Carbon Steel
4303. Potassium nitrate and glass sealed connectors
4304. Precision Lubrication Systems - dry coatings for metal coil
4306. Companies that produce vacuum metalizing machines
4307. Pickling & Passivating Job Shop Needed
4308. Grades of Metal Finishing
4309. Effects of processes on anodized surface
4310. How do you sulfuric anodize?
4311. Temperature limits of yellow chromate passivation
4312. Brass plating brass musical instruments
4313. Metalization with SilverPalladium
4314. Obsolete thermal spray processes?
4315. Need advice on FinishingProtecting steel
4316. Activator formulation [with stabilizer] for ABS plastics
4317. Info on commercial gold bath companies
4318. Some problems in chrome and nickel strike
4319. Chromic Anodizing Chemical Names
4320. Appropriate electroplating spec for part prints?
4321. Chrome Plating of Die Cast Aluminium Components
4322. Durability of Electrostatic Powder Coat vs. Sprayed
4323. High temp powder coat for exhausts
4324. Source for plating to Toyota spec TSH6517G [Zn-Ni]
4325. Looking for supplier of anodized alu strip
4326. Plating choiceprocedures
4327. Tin plating Mil spec.
4328. Mesh or nesting problems
4329. How to estimate nickel loss in plating baths
4330. Instrument for polymer plasma treatment
4331. Powder Coating vs. Painting
4332. Anodizing an immersion heater jacket
4333. Ohmic effects of electroplating
4334. Need information for methanol recyling
4335. Selenium electroplating
4336. Chemical Polishing of Aluminum
4337. Tin Floor; source, process,
4338. Copper on steel
4339. Chrome In Cleaners
4340. Stripping the silver chromate without hurting the silver deposit
4341. Removal of Chrome
4342. Electropolishing of Plated Steel
4343. Prevention of corrosion on Aluminium boats working in salt water
4344. DEFOAMING OF DEGREASER
4345. Require zinc Ashzinc sulphatezinc sulfate
4346. Custom Color Wrinkle Finish for Small Shops?
4347. Aluminium profiles and sheets wood and other graphics finishing machines
4348. Creation of microchannels in Cu
4349. Black Finish - Biocompatible
4350. Hard anodizing
4351. Titanium trioxide process for coating plastic and glass
4352. Acrylic edge finisher problems
4353. Protective exterior copper plating
4354. Powder primer
4355. Nickel etchants
4356. Anodizing 7075 to achieve a natural grey color
4357. Chrome & dot pellets
4358. Need chrome plating fiberglass
4359. Vacuum depositionmirror aluminising
4360. Why plastic is replacing metal in car industry
4361. Information on cleaning a penny for science
4362. Microhardness differences with 200g and 500g loads
4363. Low cost Analysis for Cobalt in a Nickel bath
4364. Oxides, nitrides, carbides etc
4365. Counterflow Rinsing Help
4366. Impossible Specification?
4367. Coating faults due to fennel seed
4368. How to do tin plating
4369. Stalagmometer NEEDED
4370. Looking for better coatings
4371. Information on suede-like paints sought
4372. Solderability of plated aluminium
4373. Metal Finishing Information Needed
4374. Brass Oxidizing
4375. Chrome plating motorcycle bodywork
4376. Zinc plating high resistance black
4377. Electroplating
4378. Deoxidizer Differences
4379. Phosphoric anodizing requirements
4380. Help Find Lighting Sheet Sources
4381. Search for small scale black oxide equipment
4382. Remanufacturer needs to recolor plastic parts
4383. Cyanide Testing Methods
4384. Painting on Toilet tanks, bowls and bathtubs
4385. Tungsten carbide coating
4386. Titanium in tin solution
4387. High volume ultrasonic cleaning of heavily oiled parts
4388. High-Temp Anti-Tarnish for Pure Silver Needed
4389. QQP-35C vs ASTM A967
4390. Sealing of colour after anodising
4391. Black Coatings For ZAMAK die cast components
4392. Vacuum metalizing
4393. Protect Carbon Steel from rusting during immersion
4394. Stripping nickel from copper
4395. Nitinol
4396. Help designing scrubber for new aluminum bright dip tank
4397. Positional Non-adhesion of Sn/Pb Plating Material
4398. Plating media
4399. Nitric Acid Filteration of heavy metals
4400. Nickel chrome plating on plastics
4401. Electroless nickeldiamond composite plating
4402. Polyester coating for Dye Sublimation
4403. Mist Control
4404. Lumpy Silver
4405. Zinc waste treatment problems
4406. STEEL FOR SEA WATER APPLICATION
4407. POLLUTION : PICKLING OF STAINLESS STEEL
4408. Anodizing bath titration procedure
4409. Frictionless coatings
4410. Help design steel shot to polish quarters
4411. Machine grinding hard chrome
4412. Carbonates and "Carbon-Troll" experience?
4413. SYNTEKO, SEALMASTER
4414. Tumbling aluminium
4415. Blast Furnace Ignition Trouble--Keeps Blowing Out!
4416. Urgently require machine for plating ABS
4417. Looking for Job Shop
4418. Recycling used powder coating stripper
4419. Recyclerecover caustic
4420. Contaminated Bright dip
4421. Home Plating
4422. Anodizing color match
4423. Insulating properties of chromic anodised aluminium
4424. Anodising titaniumfatigue-strength
4425. Electroforming Mandrel Build
4426. Can ENi plating be machined ?
4427. Differences between galvanization versus nickel & zinc coatings
4428. What lining is best for a decorative chromium plating tank
4429. Grit blasting before nickel plating
4430. RALMUNSELL COLOR CONVERSION
4431. Dichromal product
4432. Pink Brass
4433. Steel screws used in Anodize process
4434. Black Anodize Residue ?
4435. NEED CHROME PLATING ON POLY CARBON PART
4436. Adhesion Test
4437. Electro Acid
4438. Type 303 rust on solder ferrules
4439. HELP! Anodization Info Needed!
4440. Want to buy a used cathodic electropainting complete line
4441. Zinc chromate primes
4442. p-toluensulfonic acid
4443. Availability of Zinc Sheet Metal of Foil [or alloys]?
4444. Adhesion problem on Kovar
4445. Laser absorber
4446. Setup of Clear Chromate from A to Z
4447. Chromate Finish Zinc Castings
4448. SOURCE OF SURFACTANTS
4449. Problems with plating tin onto nickel
4450. Need some help - parts blistering
4451. Stripping hard chrome from Aluminium
4452. Sealing of Hard-anodized coatings
4453. Permalloy 45 - treatmentmachining processes
4454. Looking for gold & palladium recovery membranes
4455. GXP-1000
4456. Cadmium/Chromate on Nickel
4457. Cold Water Passivation of Ni Plate, Why?
4458. Advice On Chrome Plating Machines Needed
4459. Nickel sulphate supplier
4460. Aluminium assembling
4461. Almac Mechanical Plating
4462. Irridite, Gold or Yellow?
4463. Hydrogen in Copper
4464. Solder causing adhesion problems
4465. Electroless nickel extrusion moulds
4466. Etching problems with PCB tin resist
4467. Source for <= 100 grams Ammonium Chloride
4468. Electroless Plating
4469. COLD RUST BLUEING METHODS
4470. Plating Nickel Silver
4471. Lifting Sling Inquiry
4472. Mechanised method for stripping electroplated cobalt from cathode
4473. Masking titanium nitride coating to gold plate exposed stainless
4474. Macrocracks in Hard-chrome layer!
4475. Which Nickel For Severe Service
4476. STRIPPING COPPER PLATING
4477. Want to make gold salts
4478. Lithium deposition
4479. Purification of copper
4480. Identify Metal Finish Zactique
4481. Carbon contamination on stainless steel
4482. ANTI RUSTING PROPERTY OF DEGREASER
4483. SILVER PLATING
4484. In search of ENP consultant
4485. Orthophosphate levels in Pyrophosphate tanks
4486. Looking For AMS 5643
4487. Electroless Nickel delamination
4488. DC 20 Chromate for Magnesium
4489. Cyanide free cadmium plating
4491. Semi bright finish in silver plating
4492. Disposal of Electroless Nickel
4493. Plating On Silver
4494. Tribo Questions
4495. Parkerising Problems
4496. Hydrogen Embrittlement
4497. Platinum Plating On Titanium
4498. Archival painting on brass and copper, Primer?
4499. White Patches On The Chromate Passivated Zinc
4500. Phosphating
4501. Tin plating
4502. Seeking non-carcinogenic MIL-C-5541
4503. Brittle Nickel Coating
4504. Acid tin plating is rough
4505. Magnesium Dichromate
4506. Need to Degrease and Pickle in one bath
4507. Need plater for Miralloy finish in greater Chicago
4508. Flash Rusting
4509. Stain on anodizing [forged material]
4510. Chrome plated copper tubing
4511. Aluminum Polishing
4512. Electroless Nickel instability problems
4513. Electroless nickel over nitrided steel
4514. Dip Spin information needed
4515. Cost and method of gold plating
4516. Melting Tin
4517. Difference between chrome plating and conversion coating
4518. Silicone powder coating
4519. Copper reclaim system
4520. Fume hoods
4521. BARREL CHROMIUM PLATING
4522. SCW Sandblasting Material
4523. Information of gray coating
4524. Pitting of Cast Aluminum Engine Covers
4525. Marine anti-fouling coatings
4526. Removal for antique carvings
4527. Surface reactivity for adhesion
4528. Reclaim Zinc from Zinc Ferrous Sulphate Heptahydrate
4529. USDA Glass Beading Stainless Steel
4530. Zinc Migration into B7 Bolts
4531. Key Kote-38
4532. Waste Water Treatment
4533. Changing my black wrought iron finish to a "rusty" finish
4534. Alodine 1200 suppliers
4535. Aging aluminum for a vintage look
4536. Copper clearcoating problem
4537. Conductive layer on wax
4538. Copper plating small steel parts
4539. Distressingdarkeningaging the brass on a barstool
4540. Nickel plated spring failure
4541. Black EN
4542. Electroless Nickel Plating
4543. Alum. Polishing "How to get nice finish"
4544. Looking for chelating agents
4545. Characterictics of the gold plated bronze statue
4546. Cyanide Electrolysis Waste water treatment
4547. Mass Finishing Market $Value?
4548. Coating Polished Brass
4549. Palladium Cobalt Characteristics
4550. SATIN FINISH
4551. New Plating Facility Treatment Plant
4552. Zinc Phosphate and large metal parts
4553. Nickel solution grows
4554. TiN - Hydrogen Embrittlement?
4555. Treatment of electroplating waste
4556. Current density for Nickel electroform
4557. Cyanide concentrations in zinc-CN plating?
4558. MIL-C-5541-E, Class 1a vs. Class 3
4559. Phosphate bath time
4560. Looking for used collector
4561. StrippingCleaning Molybdenum base parts
4562. HARD CHROME PLATING OF ROLLING DIES
4563. Platinum Coating of Titanium Electrodes
4564. Electropolish 4340 Steel?
4565. Powder coating of zinc electroplated steel parts
4566. DOE on eliminating rejects on barrel plating
4567. Tumbling with fine media
4568. Chemical activation of tool steels
4569. How to plate Nickel on top of Tin plate ?
4570. Can brass be made magnetic via plating?
4571. Danger in handling chromate coated items?
4572. Acid copper inert anode technology
4573. Unable to etch part # on Black Oxide
4574. Test to determine if part has been anodized
4575. Polish Aluminum on curve surface
4576. What is Emissivity?
4577. Salt spray and statistics (4/7)
4578. Nickel S pellets needed
4579. Save brightness of Mg - alloy AZ31B
4580. Sodium Nitrate Supplier
4581. OPTICAL BLACK ANODIZE
4582. Emissivity of electroless nickel
4583. SO2 test
4584. Looking for electroless tin suppliers
4585. Zero defects on barrel zinc and clear
4586. Copper sulphate investigation
4587. Scratching of Ti
4588. Appearance criteria for anodized surfaces
4589. Hard Anodizing of small dia. Aluminum tubing interiors
4590. Pickling of Stainless Steel Lube Oil System
4591. Brass Plating Hinges
4592. Wanted: Nickel Plater for 400 inch carbon steel Box Beam
4593. Refinishing aluminum pool trim
4594. Circuit Board protective coating
4595. Looking for Fluidized Dip Tank
4596. Aging Tinplate
4597. What is "pre-dip blackener" made of?
4598. Copper plating on titanium
4599. Cyanide-free solutions
4600. Nitric acid substitute
4601. White paint effect on decorative cast Iron
4602. Acrylic Urethane or Powder Coat
4603. Powder coat warranty?
4604. Zinc plating 1060 steel
4605. Spots on acid zinc plated parts
4606. Looking for satin copper plating process
4607. Zinc electroplating over Malleable and Gray Iron
4608. Electroplating, sheradising and anodizing
4609. Machinery to make aluminium bar code labels
4610. Sealing of black chrome
4611. Recovery of silver from strip solutions
4612. GALVANIZING PLANT = WANT TO BUY
4613. Clear chromate meeting mil specs?
4614. Electro Nickel Plating Process
4615. Details of zinc/technigalva producers
4616. Nickel Electroplate Vs. Electroless Nickel
4617. Hard Anodizing
4618. Grinding hard chromium plating
4619. Fe phosphate coating with Inorganic zinc silicate
4620. Anode Polarization
4621. Metallic Impurities in the Nickel Bath
4622. Boric acid determination, autotitration
4623. Reduction of oil and hydrocarbons in wastewater
4624. Treatment of electroplating wastewater
4625. HOW DO I ACTIVATE MY POT METAL
4626. Analysis of HF in Mixed Acid Baths
4627. HVOF, Masking
4628. Tin plate on aluminum
4629. Info needed of camphor sulfonic acid
4630. Demineralization (Water Treatment)
4631. Painting over silver plate
4632. Plating build-up in tapped holes
4633. Early corrosion in soils with sulfates & chlorides
4634. "ARKANSAS" Hard oil stone
4635. Surface corrosion of 2024 T3 bare material
4636. Covering burnt or charred wood
4637. Electrodeposition Bismuth on Al
4638. Chromate treatment of aluminium
4639. Tin-Silver alloy electroplating solutions for leadframe application
4640. Salt water through a process plant
4641. LOOKING FOR A FLUIDIZED BED COATING SYSTEM
4643. Refinish clear anodized aluminum
4644. Chromate Based Coatings
4645. Copper tarnishing prevention
4646. Protective coating for anodized Ti
4647. Tin-silver electroplating solutions for leadframe application
4648. Lubricant of organic coating for drawer parts
4649. Why still chromate?
4650. Used Epoxy Powders
4651. Copper patina or plating on tin/lead solder
4652. Uses For 20% Ammonia Solution
4653. Parker Amchem Corp. Suppliers
4654. Finishing Glass Filled Nylon Parts
4655. Sealing and finishing of steel
4656. Where can I have my Viper Wheels Chromed
4657. A-DG
4658. Re-anodizing
4659. Protecting copper fountain
4660. Buffing out scratches from a stainless steel refrigerator door
4661. I want to increase my Powdercoat knowledge
4662. Cad plating consultant needed
4663. Dust when varnishing gold plate
4664. Looking for coating hardness measurement shop
4665. HARD ANODIZING RACK MARKS
4666. Hard Chrome Pollution
4667. Post treatment coating for Salt Bath Nitriding
4668. Finishing method of Titanium for human body
4669. Electronic schemes of PAR 276 Interface needed
4670. Wanted - used solvent recovery still
4671. Durable black chrome
4672. Seeking black chrome plating of PC enclosures
4673. Fume fever from zinc sheets?
4674. Pretreatment of carbon steel for best adhesion
4675. Hydrogen embrittlement of spring
4676. Black Rhodium Plating
4677. De-embrittlling copper plating
4678. Lower cost alternative to powder coat
4679. Anodizing Masking
4680. Plate-out on contact wheels of continuous plating machine
4681. Painting Brass for Marine environment
4682. Covering wood with metal (copper) paint
4683. Phosphating system layout & design
4684. Seeking anodized reflectors
4685. Adhesion of Hard Chromium plating on AISI 410
4686. Manganese-phosphate coatings and their effect on electrical conductivity
4687. Can iron be chromated?
4688. Electrically conductive black plating over zinc & aluminum die cast
4689. Chemically polishing aluminum motorcycle parts
4690. Alumilite 225 Hardcoat
4691. Epoxy Powder Coating Over a Chrome Substrate
4692. Electroless Nickel On Extruders Moulds
4693. Pretreatment-etching Aluminum Prior To Penetrant Inspection
4694. Cadmium whiskers on Hubble
4695. Uniform Hard Chrome Layer
4696. Dewetting of Ni and Sn plating on electronic components
4697. How to remove nickel plating from brass
4698. Compound For Removing Lens Scratches
4699. Gear guards for plating barrels
4700. Peeling of soft gold plating during post-machining
4701. Help with designing a powder coating oven
4702. Seeking fluropolymer coating/ corrosion resistant coating
4703. Reusability of chromate rinsewater in alkaline zinc plating?
4704. Looking for Cathode Coating
4705. Titanium coating or electroplating
4706. Acid-based electroless nickel stripper [Minn.]
4707. Problems upon changing solder plating from sn60 to sn96
4708. Contamination prevention for powder paint in tapped holes
4709. Plating aluminum for corrosion resistance, solderability, esthetics
4710. Maximum temperature for chrome-chromate conversion coatings
4711. Brushing aluminum to achieve grain
4712. Silver Plating on Nickel
4713. Hard chrome barrel plating
4714. Problem with adhesion of silver plate
4715. Problems with Tube Nuts
4716. Soldering Titanium
4717. Environmental aspects of electrolytic Zink plating
4718. Aluminum cathode dissolution in sulfuric anodize tank
4719. Anodizing using AC superimposed on DC
4720. Laser marking of Anodized Aluminum
4721. What is the fluorine after PTFE treatment?
4722. Copper Bus Bar, Industry Standard for Surface Finish
4723. Chromic acid flakes same as crystals? Copper heater okay?
4724. Titanium pretreatment for copper deposition from a sulfate bath
4725. Metal Coloring With Chemicals
4726. Nickel-Chrome Plating on ABS Plastics
4727. Coloring steel or aluminum
4728. Lifting photoresist
4729. Pretreatment of aluminium and problems in chromate conversion
4730. Surface finishes for aluminum aircraft parts
4731. Nickel plating a ten foot stainless steel tube
4732. Solutions for stripping silver from brass
4733. BRASS AND ALUMINIUM POLISHING IDEAS REQUIRED
4734. Articles wanted for Environmental Compliance Alert & Clean Air News
4736. Can't get part to anodize!
4737. Standards for electroless-nickel plating
4738. Salt spray chamber wanted
4739. Nernst Equation as it applies to brass etching
4740. Sandblasting Equipment Suppliers in Europe
4741. PVC Tank Linings for 85 degree C. use
4742. Chrome stripper
4743. How to keep steel from rusting while looking natural?
4744. How To Protect polished aluminum
4745. Epoxy Powder Coating over Galvanized Steel
4746. Ti anodizing color change in steam autoclave
4747. CHEMICAL COLORING OF STAINLESS STEEL
4748. What leaches from stainless steel cookware?
4749. Cold seal adhesive
4750. Why does internal-stress occur?
4751. Phosphoric Acid Containment System (PACS)
4752. Anodizing of Galvanized Products
4753. Recycling of Cupric etchants
4754. Etching chemicals
4755. Effectiveness of "home" powder coating setups
4756. Electropolishing 440C Stainless
4757. Steam Sealing Anodized Aluminum
4758. Cat-a-Lac Paint
4759. The best nickel?
4760. Nickel on firearms
4761. Techniques/recipes for coloring metal
4762. Relationship between clip thickness and current density
4763. Electropolishing pickled 316L tubing
4764. Nedox CR+ plating
4765. Plating silica
4766. Dacrotising or Substitute needed
4767. Caustic Potassium Permanganate
4768. Removing zinc contamination from stainless steel
4769. Silver plating on electrical contact springs
4770. Black spots found on nickel plated surface
4771. Hydrogen Embrittlement of Galvanized Steel
4772. Electroless Nickel is Staining!
4773. Plastic ball plating
4774. ESD powder coating
4775. Black anodizing, voltage doubts
4776. Silver Migration Inhibitor
4777. Shoe Bronzing
4778. Two electroforming/rectifier questions
4779. Looking for a Coating Thickness Gauge
4780. Brush plating Powerpack
4781. Need rechroming of valve covers of show car
4782. Hard chrome plating of nitrided steels
4783. Mirror finish on aluminium
4784. Passivating Laser Marked 420F Stainless Steel Parts
4785. Silver cleaner
4785. Silver cleaners: "Quick Dip", "H.J. Hagerty" and "Noxon"
4785a. Preparation and post-treatment steps in Silver Plating
4786. Anodized Surface Finish different on different Aluminium Grades
4787. Anodizing of Al alloys
4788. Need Info On Liquid Coating Of I Beams Automatically
4789. Recommendations for bar rouge auto-feeders
4790. Source For Magnesium Dichromate
4791. Lead-Tin-Copper Plating Service needed
4792. Looking for Permalloy Electroplating Service
4793. Aluminum corrosion protection from sulfuric acid
4794. Additives for Rhodium plating solutions
4795. Electropolish - 'Comets
4796. Coating/bonding metal on alumina
4797. Electroless Nickel Plating of Thin Parts
4798. Current Potential of Zinc-Iron Electroplating
4799. Modified Dye Stain Test
4800. What materials are OK with HFnitric ?
4801. Sulphates V Chlorides
4802. How to obtain grey passivate on zinc plating
4803. Cost Calculation for plating operation
4804. Want to give polished brass antique patina
4805. Anodize bright dip
4806. Painting polystyrene models
4807. Verdigris - zinc
4808. Alternative to Chromium Passivation for Zinc Plating
4809. Waste Treating BORON
4810. Cost of anodizing and plasma spray process
4811. Sulfuric Acid Analysis
4812. TANK SUPPLIER FOR ALODINING AIRCRAFT PARTS
4813. Deburring small solid rings
4814. Acetate sealants
4815. Wrought Iron Preventative Maintenance
4816. Wanted Aluminum Wire heavy gauge
4817. Aqualac, Magnaguard
4818. Weld discoloration
4819. Corrosion behavior of nitrided steels
4820. How to restore an oxidizing aluminum gas tank?
4821. Gold coat on non-magnetic stainless steel
4822. Al 2xxx Surface Treatments
4823. Dual process
4824. How to etch designs into aluminum?
4825. Black oxidizer on aluminium
4826. TIMED WATER ADDITIONS..have you tried it and does it work?
4827. Black oxide fading on small parts
4828. Factors affecting ductility of Nickel plated parts
4829. Desmutting after a boiling seal
4830. Chemical or Electrochemical Polishing of High Purity Aluminum
4831. Source for titanium anodizing chemicals
4832. Pretreatment of aluminium automobile wheels for chrome plating
4833. Plating of pot metal or die cast
4834. When to Carbon Treat Bright Nickel
4835. Using Hull Cells for Silver Plating
4836. Function of Chloride in Acid Copper Plating Bath
4837. HF replacement/reduction for deox of Aluminum casting
4838. How can I electroplate MoCr?
4839. Elimination of Al outgassing when exposed to steam
4840. Bright dip problems
4841. Low Outgasing Black Coating/Plating for Cu or AL
4842. Simple Test for Passivated Stainless Steel
4843. Limiting gas formation in sulfate-based acid Zn plating
4844. Salt Spray performance on galvanized steel
4845. Karat of Palladium Cobalt Plating
4846. Blistering Problem on Zinc Die Casting
4847. Any alternatives to chromic acid in galvanization process?
4848. Anodizing Aluminium
4849. Zinc Diecast plating problem
4850. Nickel plate resistance to seawater
4851. Blackening of aluminum
4852. Nickel Cobalt alloy plating
4853. Yellow vs. Black Chromate
4854. Tin-copper plating specifications
4855. Silver Electroplating -- Cryogenic Anti-Gall Coating
4856. Desperate for help in gold electroforming
4857. SILVER ALMAC COATING
4858. Coefficient of friction with steel
4859. Ansi specs. for PowdercoatSpray Rub
4860. Ramp-up Proceedures for Electroforming
4861. Help needed in coating material
4862 .Plating glass fibre
4863. What's new in powder coating
4864. Coating metal with teflon resin
4865. Comparison of accelerated corrosion testing
4866. Paint stripping from alloy wheels
4867. Need show chrome plater for motorcycle parts
4868. "Matte" Silver Why?
4869. Peroxide treatment of sulfamate ni
4870. Electroless copper
4871. Chrome free type conversion coating for magnesium alloys
4872. Hot-dip galvanising alternatives
4873. COPPER STRIPPING
4874. EXPOSURE LIMITS - HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM
4875. Metal hydroxide sludge treatment plant/facility?
4876. Chromate Conversion of Aluminum Casting Alloys
4877. IRRIDIUM PLATING
4878. Passivation, Cold ?
4879. Teflon Coating on Fibreglass
4880. Can stainless steel be electropolished in coilform?
4881. Using tapered bores as a datum
4882. Effect of metal finishes?
4883. Leadframe : Calculation of current and timer
4884. Anodize remover
4885. hydophilic coating Al film
4886. Reactions/byproducts/from the cleaning of a 316L fermenter w/nitric acid?
4887. Chromate touch-up on zinc plated steel.
4888. Tracking with crowned pulley wheels
4889. Conveyor rust contaminates powder coating
4890. magnesium in aluminum anodizing
4891. Source of information for microcrystalline, calcium modified zinc phosphate?
4892. Bath maintenance
4893. Zinc and chromate
4894. Anodizing CP Titanium
4895. Removing scratches from clear acrylic sheet
4896. SCC of 7075 alloy
4897. Nickel electroless of foundry patterns
4898. Aging New Copper Gutters?
4899. Painting New Copper Gutters andDownspounts
4900. Black Nickel Deposit.
4901. Rub, Rub, Rub.......What is this so-called "Rub test"??
4902. Non reflective glass
4903. Nitric HF acid
4904. Health effects of working in a Nickel plating shop
4905. CuSn plating
4906. Looking for an e-coating shop
4907. Graining or Grinding to reduce sheet thickness?
4908. Blacking of lead
4909. 5541E, alternate specification to and electrodepotential
4910. heat scale removal
4911. Samples of stainless steel finishes
4912. History of anodising
4913. D.I.Y. Nickel plating onto steel
4914. Copper Plating Oxidized
4915. BRONZE ELECTROFORMING
4916. Sealant for porous material before plating
4917. Sheradising
4918. Vacuum wand for parts handling.
4919. DI water
4920. Is it detrimental to pretreat alkaline zinc yellow with an iron phosphate?
4921. Soldering Bright Nickel
4922. General info on autophoretic coatings
4923. Steel pipe protection at construction site
4924. Electrocoagulation for wastewater treatment?
4925. CHROME PLATING TROUBLE SHOOTING
4926. How to remove burr from aluminium
4927. multilayer plating, iron silicide
4928. Protecting polished aluminum
4929. Parkerizing, Maganese Phosphating
4930. plated copper properties
4931. Nitriding and Shot Peening
4932. Anti-tarnish for silver plating
4933. copper plating
4934. stainless steel: etching and petina?
4935. Lubricants for zinc plated fasteners
4936. Phosphated Steel Specs.
4937. CLEAR ANODIZE VS CLEAR ALODINE which is better and cheaper?
4938. NICKEL SILICON PLATING
4939. Galvanic problems
4940. galvanized steel or anodised aluminum
4941. Removal of Polyester
4942. Aluminum sealing products
4943. Looking for suppliers of anodizing related products & technologies for hard anodizing w/teflon
4944. Having problems hardcoating aluminum
4945. Sheet metal surface variation measurement info requested
4946. Manganese Phosphating
4947. Bright dip alternative
4948. Need of a Nickel-Plating Shop
4949. Dendrite and whisker growth in solder plating
4950. Need info about Copper Electroforming & EDM electrodes
4951. Re-coloring aluminum extrusion
4952. Rectifier selection
4953. "Old Bronze" Finish for Wrought Iron
4954. Designing a New Plating Shop
4955. Push Pull Ventilation
4956. Zincation over aluminum
4957. Copper counter tops for my kitchen
4958. Bright Cobalt Plating
4959. near white finish alternative
4960. Oxalic acid titration?
4961. Alodinisation
4962. high resistance & black finish on steel bolts
4963. Anodising masking solution.
4964. Screws: nickel or zinc plating.
4965. WET ADHESION OF ZINC PLATED PASSIVATED FILM
4966. what is the best powder coating for my application?
4967. "The Cross Hatch Adhesion Test"
4968. Electropolishing of SS.
4969. Millivolt resistance on silver plated Aluminium for electrical components.
4970. Conductive thread film
4971. Help on plating Pd on aluminum alloys
4972. Metallurgical engineer exposure to EOL process
4973. PHOSPHATE COATING
4974. "Triple Chrome Plate?"
4975. Black Chroming in the UK
4976. Wastewater treatment for zinc process
4977. Inconsistent hard anodize colour.
4978. Aluminum bright finishing
4979. Use of Picklex
4980. Electropolish titanium, how?
4981. Sealing anodized Aluminum
4982. Finishing companies in south of England
4983. Rustproofing 410 stainless with a brazed joint... how best do we do it?
4984. Stripping chrome
4985. White patina on brass/copper
4986. Problems with hardcoat destroying aluminum rack material
4987. Anodic Coating Measure
4988. HOW DO I GO ABOUT BRINGING BACK MY IRON COOKWARE
4989. Polish or engrave first?
4990. Basic annealing question...
4991. Colour change on OFC copper material on heat treatment
4992. Removing zinc from stainless steel
4993. HELP ON HARDCOAT ANODIZING ALUMINUM
4994. Plating on Deep drawn steel part (.5 to 1.6MM thk.) for solderability.
4995. Pulse plating
4996. Root cause for Hard Chromium plating defect
4997. Sulfuric acid
4998. Chemical vapour deposition
4999. antiquing or coloring galvanized sheet metal.

 

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