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- Controlled Addition of Additives
- Who manufactures or distributes devices for the automatic, controlled addition of plating solution additives such as anti-pitting agents?
Ask an Expert Published: 4/2/2013
- Dissolving Titanium Anode Baskets
- Has anyone experienced titanium anode baskets dissolving in a nickel sulfamate plating bath with a pH of 2.5 and no current flowing?
Ask an Expert Published: 2/13/2013
- Plating Bath Additives
- Where can I learn more about additives to plating baths? I want to formulate some of my own and avoid the high prices charged by plating chemical vendors.
Ask an Expert Published: 12/11/2012
- Cost of Plating
- We have been barrel plating flat parts, but the parts do not meet the customer’s corrosion requirements, and we now have to resort to rack plating. Can you provide a brief explanation for the significant difference in cost?
Ask an Expert Published: 12/5/2012
- College Pilot Plating Study
- What are the requirements for college students to start a pilot study to conduct experiments on a laboratory scale? We also need process flowcharts for various plating baths on different base materials and information on how to use a Hull cell.
Ask an Expert Published: 6/15/2012
- New to Plating
- Please suggest some techniques for copper and tin plating and good plating techniques in general.
Ask an Expert Published: 6/14/2012
- Chloride Concentrations
- Can you give me a titration procedure to check chloride concentrations in the PC-667 acid copper bath?
Ask an Expert Published: 3/1/2012
- More on Magnetic Parts
- In the November 2011 issue of Products Finishing I briefly discussed problems with plating magnetic parts. One of my readers (also a student of mine some 25 years ago) sent me an email mentioning some other causes of parts becoming magnetic. One has...
Ask an Expert Published: 2/27/2012
- Zinc Plating and Crystal Growth Revisited
- In the February issue, I answered a question regarding formation of excess crystals in a potassium chloride zinc plating bath. I recently received additional information from one of the plating shops regarding its problem.
Ask an Expert Published: 5/24/2011
- Brighteners and Solder Failure
- A customer claims that brightener and grain refiner concentrations in a plating bath will affect the solderability of the plated surface.
Ask an Expert Published: 5/24/2011