Brush Plating
The benefits of plating localized areas with a portable plating system.
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Ultrasonic Cleaning Systems Deliver Results and Efficiency
Tips to help you choose a system for profit, performance and quality.
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Gold and Silver Plating Basics
An overview of precious metal electroplating processes.
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What is Electrocoating?
E-coat can produce uniform finishes with excellent coverage and outstanding corrosion resistance.
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Making the Best Choices in Mass Finishing
Choice of equipment, media and compounds has a major impact on your finishing applications.
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An Innovative Approach to Filtration (Without Aggravation)
Filtration without aggravation is the key to designing any system needed to effectively remove contaminants from a finishing solution.
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Aluminum Anodizing
Types of anodizing, processes, equipment selection and tank construction.
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Buffing and Polishing— Looking to the Future
Advances in equipment, automation and consumables can help you compete.
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What Temperature Profiling System is Right for Me?
Today, profiling systems that are both sophisticated and easy to use can give a clear pass/fail finding, document regulatory compliance, let operators know when and where their ovens are trending out of acceptable limits or show that a process is within suppliers’ or customers’ specifications.
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Filtration Basics
I need some basic information on filtration in the plating shop. My major concern is sulfate copper and Watts nickel.
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Selecting a Vibratory Finisher
Can you recommend selection criteria for buying vibratory finishing machines?
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What “They” Don’t Want You to Know About Estate Tax Planning
If this article was a college course, it would be called Estate Taxonomics 101.
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The Real Cost of Downtime
Making the right color-change decision in powder coating operations.
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Anodizing: How to Avoid “Greenwashing” Your Product
Product manufacturers naturally want to say good things about their product. Current marketing trends emphasize environmentally beneficial attributes of a product, not just to identify the manufacturer as a good corporate citizen, but also as an inducement for the consumer to purchase the product.
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Centrifugal Pump Versus Air-Operated Diaphragm Pump
We have an old wastewater pretreatment system for our metal finishing operation. The system contains two large air diaphragm pumps that transfer the wastewater from a holding tank to the flocculation tank before the clarifier. Since we are renovating the pretreatment system to extend its life, our team is arguing over whether to replace or keep these pumps.
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Join The Clubs
June saw annual meetings and conferences for two of the largest trade groups in surface finishing, as the National Association of Surface Finishers and the Chemical Coaters Association International held gatherings in Grand Rapids and Sarasota, respectfully. The Powder Coating Institute held its annual meeting in late May in Austin Texas.
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What is the Correct Anodizing Specification?
My company fabricates aluminum and steel pedestrian bridge railing among other bridge parts. We recently got an aluminum railing job that called for “Type I” anodizing per MIL-A-8625. There was no anodic coating thickness called out. We are not anodizers and we are at a loss as to how to write up a meaningful anodizing specification for this railing.
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Passivation Basics
What is commonly referred to as "passivating" on a shop floor is actually just enhancement of a naturally occurring process on most stainless steels.
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Is Grinding E-Coated Parts Safe?
Can you tell me if it is safe to rework electrocoated parts with grinding—using pads to remove the coating, and so on?
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Tips for Green Mass Finishing
In your area, mass finishing, can you give me some guidelines to reduce the use of non-renewable resources?
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