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Pickling Cobalt Chrome

Seeking information on the cleaning and pickling of cobalt chrome alloys

Dave McKay
- Cleveland, Ohio USA
2000

Handle it the same as a similar Nickel Chrome alloy. There are numerous sources for typical methods. Durney's Electroplating Engineering Handbook ⇦ this on eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon [affil links] , ASM's volume on cleaning, Metal Finishing's Guidebook and etc.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
2000

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