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Is Recycling Hazardous?

Question: Due to the buildup of contaminants, we are looking at removing about one-half of our chrome plating bath and reconstitute it back to normal operating volume and strength.

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Electrocoating Stainless Steel Parts

Question: We have a customer who wants to electrocoat stainless steel parts (grade 430 or 436). Can we expect adhesion problems with normal pre-clean treatments?

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Chromium Plating Maintenance Schedule

Question: Can you supply a maintenance schedule for our hard chromium plating baths?

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Cooling Coils in the Anodize Tank

Question: We are sulfuric anodizing in a plastic tank.

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Dot Commentary: Smart Technology Shopping, Part 1 - Hardware

For most people, a recession means saving and cost-cutting.

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Chemical Machining of Aluminum

Question: We are a UK finishing equipment manufacturer and have an application where our client needs to chemically machine aluminum parts by masking and etching away selected areas with alkaline etchants.

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Hard Anodize Chipping/Corroding

Question: We are a small manufacturer of food processing equipment.

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Two-Component Coatings, Part II

Question: These remarks are in reference to your October 2001 clinic question on two-component coatings.

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Yellow Tin

Question: We are plating tin using a stannous tin bath over a plated copper layer.

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Refinishing Furniture

Question: I have a set of five chairs and a round table that I would like to stain.

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Anodizing of Diecast Aluminum

Question: Our company uses a lot of diecast aluminum parts now for agricultural water application equipment such as big gun sprinklers and valves.

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Barrel Silver Plating

Question: We have been asked to plate a small component with silver.

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