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Hexavalent nickel chrome plating peel off on SS 409

We have been conducting hexavalent NiCr plating on MS silencers, we have now doing the same process on SS silencers by adding a Woodstrike. However, the plating peel off has started happening since this change

Hemant Abhyankar
Sales man of plated parts - India
April 30, 2008

"Electrodeposition: The Materials Science of Coatings & Substrates"
by Jack Dini
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Hi, Hemant. In my estimation you are probably doing something wrong with the Wood's Nickel strike; or perhaps you are delaying too long before applying the nickel plating.

Dini's "Electrodeposition".
covers this topic in good detail, and quotes tremendous adhesion values. Good luck.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
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April 30, 2008

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