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Q. Good day! I presently worked in electroplating company for almost a year now. We always encountered a burning, peel-off,crack,white stain defects in our process.The materials we plated are pins and shield case models.

Please send us tips on how to resolve these types of defects.

Thank you.

Arlene Quintana, PIC Staff
Electroplating - Philippines
2006



2006

A. Hello, Arlene. People will be happy to try to help you! Please give us the specifics of one particular defect in one process on one part, describing your cleaning and prep, handling methods (rack, barrel, vibratory plater, reel-to-reel bandolier), and process chemistry -- perhaps including pictures of the defect -- and then, with luck, someone can offer you some direction on problems one at a time. Thanks!

"Trouble in Your Tank: Handbook for Solving plating Problems"
by Larry Durney
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But there are whole books just on the methods of troubleshooting plating problems.
whereas you've asked for a resolution to 4 different defects in two different processes on two different types of parts in 35 words  🙂

Whole bookshelves, even aisles, at libraries cover such topics; there are no magic troubleshooting formulas that would let us be of much help to you without you offering a couple of paragraphs of facts about one problem, but the Canning Handbook [on eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks affil links] does at least include tables of common problems for the various plating processes. Sorry, and please get back to us  🙂

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