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Practical Chromium plating books
Q. We are looking for books or video training that explain chromium plating more practical especially in Anode design, Jigging, solve trouble in plating bath.
Any information is greatly appreciate, thanks.
Anton BijosonoPT.Citra Selaras Harmoni, Indonesia
1998
A. If hard chrome information is what you are looking for then "Hard Facts About Hard Chrome" [a series in Metal Finishing magazine] by Clarence Peger, is what you want. He also used to do a video course in which he demonstrates most of the techniques required, all details delivered in the most boring monotone I have ever heard. He is in Ohio.
Dave Brackenridgeaerospace plating - Germiston, South Africa
1998
"Hard Chromium plating"
by Robert K. Guffie
on
AbeBooks
or
Amazon
(currently UTL on eBay)
(affil links)
A. Hi, Anton.
Other books specifically about these aspects of chrome plating include:
"Chromium Plating" by Weiner & Walmsley and
Hard Chromium Plating" by Robert Guffie.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
1997
"The most prominent requisite to a lecturer...is a good delivery; for though to all true philosophers science and nature have charms innumerable in every dress, yet I am sorry to say that the generality of mankind cannot accompany us one short hour unless the path is strewed with flowers." - Michael Faraday
Since the path was not strewn with flowers, and you walked with Mr. Peger anyway, that makes you a true philosopher. Cool.
Tom Pullizzi
Falls Township, Pennsylvania
1998
Thanks for the quote, Tom, it's a great one, and I'm proud to see it came from a plater-philosopher!
The tape hiss and hum on that video is awesomely bad. However, Clarence has contributed greatly to industrial chrome plating, both via this tape and his column in Metal Finishing magazine. And Clarence is a guy who is not shy about interrupting the transmission of urban legends when he finds them to be untrue. I find his material to be simultaneously humorous and serious, and definitely worth enduring.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
"Chrome Plating Simplified"
by Clarence H. Peger
(You're unlikely to find this for sale ... but copies are in select libraries)
from
AbeBooks
or
Amazon
(affil links)
A. You will find the notebook by Peger extremely self serving and is at least a quarter of the content in backslapping and inappropriate bad mouthing conventional chrome plating. If you can ignore that portion, his book is one of the best hands on how-to do -it reference you will find. Well worth the money. I went to his school which has since closed and have not seen the video, but suspect Dave's analysis of the delivery is correct.
James Watts- Navarre, Florida
1998
A. The company name is Hard Chrome Plating Consultants, Cleveland, OH.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
1997
Q. I am a PhD student researching the tribological behaviour of electrodeposited hard chromium in high speed journal bearing applications. I am having trouble finding academic work relating to the wear properties of hard chromium against a graphite carbon counterface.
Can anyone help with any text references please?
Jon StarbuckUniversity of Portsmouth - Hampshire, England
1998
Taber Abrasion Tester
on
eBay
or
Amazon
(affil links)
A. Hi, Jon,
There should be decades of Taber Abraser records published. But, sorry, I don't know about graphite carbon as the counterface.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
1998
Q. Sirs,
I want to know all about chroming. I want to chrome metal musical instruments. A good book, the address of a good factory and the name and e-mail address of someone who KNOWS about the chroming process and its pitfalls would be greatly appreciated.
Garth Nicholas- Port Of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
2000
A. Hi, Garth.
Traditional concert and brass instruments are not chrome plated, but steel drums often are. Threads about chrome plating of steel drums include thread 12564.
We have an Introduction to Chrome Plating on line. Books are listed on our "must-have" booklist, plating factories can be found in our Jobshop Directory, and people who know about the chroming process are listed in our Consultants Directory. Good luck!
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
December 16, 2011
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