Plating and Metal Finishing Books

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Plating and Metal Finishing Books: What You Need & Where to Find Them

0. Mechanical Preparation

Shot Peening, published by MFN

1. Great books for Anodizing & Aluminum Treatments

Aluminum How-To,
Robert Probert

Light Metals Finishing Process Manual,
David Montgomery

Surface Finishing and Treatment of Aluminum and its Alloys,
Wernick, Pinner & Sheasby

More anodizing books:

Artists Anodizing Aluminum : The Sulfuric Acid Process,
David Laplantz
[on AbeBooks, eBay, or Amazon ]

Adhesive Bonding of Aluminum Alloys by Edward W. Thrall, Raymond W. Shannon
[on Amazon ]

Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys by J.R. Davis
[on Amazon ]

Aluminum: Technology, Applications, and Environment by Dietrich G. Altenpohl
[on Amazon ]

The Technology of Anodizing Aluminum by Arthur William Brace, P.G. Sheasby
[on AbeBooks, Amazon, or eBay ]

2. The "Must Have" List for Electroplating
No plating shop or plating library should open its doors without these five books on hand :-)

ASM Metals Handbook vol. 5 Surface Cleaning, Finishing, and Coating

Electroplating, Frederick A. Lowenheim

Electroplating Engineering Handbook,
Lawrence Durney

Metal Finishing Guidebook & Directory,
Elsevier

3. More "Classics" on general electroplating .

ASM Metals Handbook vol. 5 Surface Engineering

The Canning Handbook:
Surface Finishing Technology

Electrochemical Metallizing Principles and Practice,
Marvin Rubinstein

Electrodeposition of Alloys,
Abner Brenner

Electrodeposition, the Materials Science of Coatings and Substrates,
Jack W. Dini

Installation and Maintenance in Electroplating Shops,
Eric A. Ollard

Practical Electroplating Handbook,
N.V. Parthasaradhy

Properties of Electrodeposited Metals and Alloys

Trouble in Your Tank?,
Lawrence Durney

Water and Waste Control for the Plating Shop,
Kushner & Kushner

4. Chrome Plating:

Chromium Plating,
Weiner & Walmsley

Hard Chromium Plating,
Robert K. Guffie

5. Electroless Plating:

Electroless Plating - Fundamentals & Applications, Mallory & Hajdu

Chemical (Electroless) Nickel Plating,
G.G. Gawrilov

Electroless Nickel Plating
Wolfgang Riedel

6. Gold Plating

Gold Plating Technology,
Reid & Goldie

7. Nickel Plating

The Sulfamate Nickel How-To Guide,
Crotty, PhD & Probert

8. Plating on Plastic

Standards and Guidelines for Electroplated Plastics,
ASEP

9. Zinc Plating

Zinc Plating,
Herb Geduld

10. Painting and Powder Coating

Formulary of Paints and Other Coatings Vol. I,
Michael and Irene Ash

Industrial Painting: Principles and Practices,
Norman R. Roobol

11. Miscellaneous

The Chemical Formulary Volume XXIII,
H. Bennett, editor-in-chief

Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice,
ACGIH

Recovery & Refining of Precious Metals, C.W. Ammen

Current Solutions to Hydrogen Problems in Steels,
Interrante & Pressouyre

Corrosion of Stainless Steels,
A. John Sedriks

Machinery's Handbook,
Erik Oberg, Franklin D. Jones and Holbrook L. Horton

Gold Refining,
George Gajda

Many of the best metal finishing books are out of print and hard to find. Some are expensive but poorly described by the book sellers. Finishing.com will provide cover photos and book reviews of these works, and multiple source them so if one dealer is out, you'll have alternatives.

While this page is in progress, we will continue to refer you to some older pages at finishing.com for other books that have not yet been cataloged to this depth:

Metal finishing books selected & linked to Amazon; in many cases reviews are also offered.
Our list of "must have" finishing books and finishing trade journals.
World-class metal finishing libraries.