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High stress strike nickel

2004

Dear sirs,

In Chrome plating standard for automotive (JIS), for Nickel layer always mention term "Double or triple + high stress strike" and "Double or triple + dispersed strike". Questions :

#1. What are the basic understanding of "Double or triple + high stress strike" and "Double or triple + dispersed strike".

#2. How to make those "Double or triple + high stress strike" and "Double or triple + dispersed strike".

For Chrome layer :
Why chrome layer with microcrack (100crack/cm)is better than normal chrome. Our product cannot pass Corrodkote test because used normal Chrome solution. How to make Chrome layer with 100 crack/cm.

Thank you.

Bambang Soetedja
'1st tier automotive' - Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia

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Corrosion-resistant nickel requires at least two layers of nickel, semi-bright and bright; that is what is meant by "double". It is also possible to apply a third "high sulfur" layer for improved corrosion resistance; this is what is meant by "triple".

One of the ways to make the chrome highly porous or micro-cracked is to deposit a layer of very highly stressed microporous nickel before it.

The article "High Quality Copper-Nickel-Chromium Plating on Plastics: A Continuous Process and its Challenges" by J.R. Arnold in the Jan. 2004 issue of Plating and Surface Finishing should answer all your questions.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2003

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Dear Sir,

Continuing our correspondence, subject: Chrome Plating on Plastics, may we get more informations as:

1. That you suggest us to find out the article "High Quality Copper-Nickel-Chromium Plating on Plastics: A Continuous Process and its Challenges" by J.R. Arnold in the Jan. 2004. Could you show the way that we can get the article? Is That article can we find at web,some books or magazines?

2. To studies more about micro-cracked and microporous nickel we are need the structure both of them, could you help us give some informations?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Bambang Soetedja [returning]
1st tier automotive - Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia
2004

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The referenced article was in Plating & Surface Finishing magazine. Any of your co-workers who is a member of the American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society should have it, as it is the monthly journal of that organization. A reprint is presumably available through their website at NASF.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2004