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-----Nickel Strike Cell concentration Breakdown
How do you maintain the concentration of a Nickel Strike cell without it breaking down after about 8 hours? My company uses Zinc plating for corrosion, and presently employs Chromate for adhesion. We'd like to switch to a Nickel Strike, but have had problems with the Nickel Strike's concentration breaking down and having to make a new bath every 8
hours or so. Do you think a combination of Zinc/Nickel plating before the Strike cells would help this? Also, would the Carbon filters help as well? I'm not an engineer, nor will I profit from this whatsoever. Thank you for any help you may be able to give me!
Hisan, Inc. - Findlay, Ohio
2005
2005
Not sure what that disavowal of profit was about, Timothy, and we certainly hope somebody will profit from your question, but anyway . . .
A nickel strike is often applied on high volume steel parts without extraordinary measures being needed to maintain solution balance, so I don't understand why you've found it necessary to remake the bath every 8 hours. Something sounds drastically wrong. Further, the purpose of your proposal of a strike (very thin plating) on top of a standard plating isn't immediately obvious to me. If I were you I think I would call in the supplier's tech service person responsible for your zinc plating process, or the tech service person from the supplier of your proposed zinc-nickel process and spend a couple of hours discussing pretreatment and the basics.
I get the general feeling that you may be misapplying the word "strike" in a way that is confusing our discussions of the matter. Please look up "Wood's Nickel" ⇦ huh? and see if we're on the same page. Good luck.
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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2005
It would sure help if you said why you only got 8 hours use.
First thought is drag in of great amounts of caustic cleaner.
Second is not enough anode, wrong anode or insoluble anode.
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