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4000. Leadframe solder plating cost?
4001. Metal Parts that are Nickel Plated but are still RUSTING
4005. Removing corrosion from chrome plating
4007. Phosphate substitute?
4008. Plating leaves/cones etc
4009. Plating of stained glass jewelry boxes
4010. Analytical methods needed for a nickel-phosphorus electroplating bath
4011. Small Dia Chrome plated hollow
4013. Grey color in Natural Anodized Aluminum
4014. High temperature paints
4016. What material to protect clear plastic from abrasion/wear? Silicone Hard Coat?
4017. Corrosion Prevention
4018. Ti finishings
4019. Zinc plated steel current terminals
4020. Thin films
4021. Chrome Protection Products
4023. Need E-coating service
4024. Separation of Free Acid from Metal Ions in Electropolish
4026. Protective Coating for Magnesium-Aluminum Alloys
4030. Measurement of copper thickness
4032. Pitting and rough plate of nickel sulfamate
4034. Chrome & Chelates
4036. Conductive finish for cold rolled steel
4037. Galvanized steel-Iron phosphate pretreatment
4039. Tin plating on Aluminum
4040. Photoeffects of potassium dichromate
4042. How to black dye aluminum castings
4044. Corrosion Resistance of Alodine Treated Aluminum
4047. Chemical Storage
4048. Student science project: the process of gold plating
4049. Monitoring Pretreatment Variables
4050. Electroplating ping pong balls
4053. Gray spray paint for ABS plastic
4054. Tamarin Hull Coating
4055. Passivation of Stainless Steel
4058. Hard anodizing of piston ring grooves
4059. How do I plate out Zinc sulphate?
4060. Blister after 2nd Electroless
4061. Bluing firearms
4063. Chrome plating
4064. 304 Stainless in Cookware Product
4065. Corroded aluminum
4066. Clogging of gauges in EPP system
4068. Amorphous Deposit of Ni-W
4069. How to clean hot rolled steel for preparation of a rust finish?
4070. Phosphoric Rock
4071. Materials that can be anodized
4072. Analysis of Sodium Sulphate in Nickel Baths
4074. Zincating of aluminum- single or double and why?
4076. Brass Plating - Imitation Gold
4081. Metallizing ABSPC blends
4082. Brightness in galvanizing
4084. Stainless steel brown oxide removal?
4085. AISI 316L sch. 40 vs. sch. 80
4086. Passivation of titanium
4089. Selective nickel plating of steel
4090. Anodizing Aluminum Supplier
4091. Aluminum corrosion when touching stainless steel
4092. How to prevent galling on stainless steel bolts & nuts
4094. Polypropylene coated steel sewer drains
4096. Rust converter
4097. Clear-coating for costume plated Writing Pen tubes
4100. Electroplating Aluminum, Trials , 1 Mol Solution
4101. Easy system to detect Zinc metal, 0-250 ppm
4102. Tin whiskers in electronic
4104. Ammonia reduction
4105. Cleaning process for high-polish brass
4107. Hard anodising colour
4108. New finishes for magnesium alloys -- anodizing and chromating
4109. Tarnishing brass
4110. Protecting metallic structure against HCl Vapors
4113. Locate Rapid Electroplating Process, Chicago
4115. Tests for nitric acid reuse as passivation bath
4117. Aging effects on electropolished stainless steel?
4120. Jailed for blackening metals with cyanides
4121. Removing polymer release agent
4122. Free-standing gold foils
4125. How to set-up a simple home electroplating system
4127. Nickel plating processes info needed
4128. Chrome Plating bronze? commercial dive hat
4129. Antique finish cement statuary
4131. Chrome plating and coloring of stainless steel
4133. Anodizing stripping
4134. Why does copper sulphate induce a kind of rust so quickly on a nail?
4135. Basics of electroplating
4136. Chemistry project
4137. Gold plating Specifications
4138. Aluminum vacuum metallizing of motorcycle helmets
4139. Concrete protection in wastewater treatment plant
4140. Salt spray failures
4141. How can I get a chrome look from my aluminium?
4142. Air Agitation Pollution Prevention
4143. How to polish my aluminium, please?
4144. Cadmium Plated or Galvanized Bolts?
4145. Woods Nickel Strike Anodes
4146. Gold electroforming
4148. Removing scratches from stainless steel appliances
4150. Pretreatment before stoving paint how?
4151. Ultrasonic degreasing Evaluation
4152. What Coating Should be on Stainless Steel?
4153. Hard chrome plated small tubes with plating on inside
4154. Poor adhesion of Nickel plated onto Nickel
4155. Low friction coating[µ from 0.2 to 0.25]
4156. Electroforming Problem
4157. Rag-Wheel Fast Cutting Buffing Compound
4158. Yellow marks on stainless steel after passivation?
4160. Passivation of sandblasted stainless steel
4162. Parachlorobenzotrifluoride, [PCBTF} thinner
4163. Pitting on silver
4165. Chromate problem
4166. PTFE coating on Steel
4169. Iron contamination in acid zinc plating
4170. Tarnishing of brass and copper plating
4173. Purchase anodizing aluminum-coils equipment
4175. Iron Phosphate Coating Weight
4176. Anodize aluminum boats
4177. Decorative Nickel Tank Problem
4178. Electro-Gilding?
4180. Waste Water Treatment System info needed
4181. Cyanide in Domestic Wastewater Treatment Effluent
4186. Non-fluorescent metal surface coating
4187. Surface finishing of Ti-6-4
4188. 9th grade electroplating science fair project
4189. Reactions with Black Phosphate Oxide coating
4190. EMI RFI tests and specs
4191. Machining and hardening Beryllium ?
4192. Salt Spray or Humidity Test for Passivated Stainless Steel?
4193. Electrocleaner Foam Dissipation Tests
4194. Chemicals used in tin fusing
4195. Nickel Deposition by Simple Boiling
4197. Colour anodising of Ti
4200. Aluminum Foundry Blacksmithing tricks of the trade
4201. Translucent mirror finish on acrylic?
4202. Pulse current to electroform nickel
4203. C on stainless steel
4204. Treatment of Black Dye
4206. Improve zinc chromating or shift to brass plating
4207. Bright Nickel Plating - Burnt on HCD area
4209. Blue Quarters?
4210. Automated Precious Metal Plating Line
4211. Cobalt plating on carbide
4212. Getting fine control of hard anodize thickness
4214. Embrittlement "saving"
4215. Post drag out recovery of gold via IX
4216. Safe finishes for baby furniture
4218. Urethane resin suppliers in the UK
4219. HELP....to build home-brew chrome shop
4220. Pearlbrite satin problem
4221. Heating and Cooling Chrome Plating Tanks
4222. Electropolish of NiTinol
4223. Plating Automotive parts
4225. Copper plating problems
4226. Dust on stainless steel surface after wet blasting
4227. Decorative Plating Shops
4228. What spec is needed for zinc
4229. Flame spray information needed
4232. Hard surfacing for abrasive wear resistance
4234. Corrosion in electrolytic capacitors
4236. Powdercoat Chemical Analysis
4237. Immersion nickel on aluminum?
4238. Electroless Nickel Plating of Powder Metal Products
4240. Silver Plating, Tarniban and QQ-S-365 Grade A
4241. Wear Coatings for Aluminum Bearing Surface
4242. Debris, black anodizing, problems
4243. Weld seam and edge of galvanneal steel
4244. Good adhesion without tin-palladium activation
4245. Chrome window trim to black
4246. Removing nickel from brass
4247. In search of chemicals for steel etching
4248. Blackening aluminium [and alloys] for optical parts
4250. Tellurium- Help
4251. Cyanide Wastewater treatment problems [batch system]
4252. Passivation of coloured titanium
4253. Chrome Plating
4254. Removing Nickel from Brass components
4255. Wanted to start a new hobby that I can learn
4256. Titanium coated piston rings
4257. Need help to plate pot metal!
4258. Pitting and Uneven on silver plating
4259. Hard water problem!
4260. Copper paints
4261. WET SPRAY
4262. Color variation in bulk anodizing
4263. Looking for a liquid metal plating to paint onto copper
4264. Metals to be plated before brass
4265. Deposition of tungsten
4266. Finishing Aluminum and Zinc
4267. How Does Soy Sauce Remove Tarnish From Pennies?
4268. Find e-coat equip. and how to info
4270. Filtering 20L tanks
4271. Brass Tarnish
4272. Looking for heat resistant powder and pretreatment
4274. Potassium Gold Cyanide
4276. Polishing aluminium
4277. Electrophoretic coating instead of brass plating
4279. Iridium Plating
4280. Looking for an alternative for Black Chrome
4281. Outgassing bubbles from cast in paint
4282. Less than 1 micron coating on steel
4283. Water based polyurethanes- flexible film former
4284. Silane-Zr sealers for use to prepare galvanizing for powder coating
4287. Electroplated Zinc-Iron
4288. Use of Galvaprep SG
4289. Anodized Aluminum vs. Hydrated Lime
4290. Info about galvanizing non cyanide process
4291. Zinc Cobalt on 380 Aluminum Die Cast components
4292. EN plating of Pulp and Paper industry components
4293. Etchant chemicals used for brass
4294. Help with powder coating IR lamps
4295. Watts vs Woods Nickel Strike
4296. Spotting out in Rack plated Acid Zinc components
4297. Installation of Chem-Film operation
4298. Friction on sliding hoses
4299. Collaboration required for Automatic Ni Cr Plant
4300. Electroforming Alloys
4301. HARD WATER
4302. Blistering Flaking Plate on High Carbon Steel
4303. Potassium nitrate and glass sealed connectors
4304. Precision Lubrication Systems - dry coatings for metal coil
4306. Companies that produce vacuum metallizing machines
4308. Grades of Metal Finishing
4309. Effects of processes on anodized surface
4310. How do you sulfuric anodize?
4311. Temperature limits of yellow chromate passivation
4312. Brass plating brass musical instruments
4313. Metallization with Silver Palladium
4314. Obsolete thermal spray processes?
4315. Need advice on Finishing Protecting steel
4316. Activator formulation [with stabilizer] for ABS plastics
4317. Info on commercial gold bath companies
4318. Some problems in chrome and nickel strike
4319. Chromic Anodizing Chemical Names
4320. Appropriate electroplating spec for part prints?
4321. Chrome Plating of Die Cast Aluminium Components
4322. Durability of Electrostatic Powder Coat vs. Sprayed
4323. High temp powder coat for exhausts
4325. Looking for supplier of anodized aluminum strip
4326. Plating choice procedures
4327. Tin plating Mil spec.
4329. How to estimate nickel loss in plating baths
4330. Instrument for measuring polymer plasma treatment
4331. Powder Coating vs. Painting
4332. Anodizing an immersion heater jacket
4333. Ohmic effects of electroplating
4334. Need information for methanol recycling
4335. Selenium electroplating
4336. Chemical Polishing of Aluminum
4338. Copper on steel
4339. Chrome In Cleaners
4340. Stripping the silver chromate without hurting the silver deposit
4342. Electropolishing of Plated Steel
4343. Prevention of corrosion on Aluminium boats working in salt water
4344. Need defoaming agent for degreaser tank
4346. Custom Color Wrinkle Finish for Small Shops?
4347. Aluminium profiles and sheets wood and other graphics finishing machines
4348. Creation of microchannels in Copper
4350. Hard anodizing
4351. Titanium trioxide process for coating plastic and glass
4352. Acrylic edge finisher problems
4353. Protective exterior copper plating
4354. Powder primer
4355. Nickel etchants
4356. Anodizing 7075 to achieve a natural grey color
4357. Chrome & dot pellets
4359. Vacuum deposition mirror aluminizing
4360. Why plastic is replacing metal in car industry
4361. Information on cleaning a penny for science
4362. Microhardness differences with 200 g and 500 g loads
4364. Oxides, nitrides, carbides etc
4365. Counterflow Rinsing Help
4366. Impossible Specification?
4368. How to do tin plating
4370. Looking for better coatings
4371. Information on suede-like paints sought
4372. Solderability of plated aluminium
4373. Metal Finishing Information Needed
4374. Brass Oxidizing
4375. Chrome plating motorcycle bodywork
4376. Zinc plating high resistance black
4379. Phosphoric acid anodizing
4380. Help Find Lighting Sheet Sources
4381. Search for small scale black oxide equipment
4382. Re-manufacturer needs to recolor plastic parts
4383. Cyanide Testing Methods
4384. Painting on Toilet tanks, bowls and bathtubs
4385. Tungsten carbide coating
4386. Titanium in tin solution
4387. High volume ultrasonic cleaning of heavily oiled parts
4390. Sealing of color after anodizing
4391. Black Coatings For ZAMAK die cast components
4393. Protect Carbon Steel from rusting during immersion
4394. Stripping nickel from copper
4395. Nitinol
4396. Help designing scrubber for new aluminum bright dip tank
4397. Positional Non-adhesion of Sn/Pb Plating Material
4400. Nickel chrome plating on plastics
4402. Polyester coating for Dye Sublimation
4403. Mist Control
4404. Lumpy Silver
4406. STEEL FOR SEA WATER APPLICATION
4407. POLLUTION : PICKLING OF STAINLESS STEEL
4408. Anodizing bath titration procedure
4409. Friction less coating for stainless extruder components
4410. Help design steel shot to polish quarters
4412. Carbonates and "Carbon-Troll" experience?
4413. SYNTEKO, SEALMASTER
4414. Tumbling aluminium
4415. Blast Furnace Ignition Trouble--Keeps Blowing Out!
4416. Urgently require machine for plating ABS
4417. Looking for Job Shop
4418. Recycling used powder coating stripper
4419. Recycle recover caustic
4420. Contaminated Bright dip
4421. Home Plating
4422. Aluminum Anodizing Color Match Problems
4423. Insulating properties of chromic anodized aluminium
4424. Anodising titanium fatigue-strength
4425. Electroforming Mandrel Build
4426. Can electroless nickel plating be machined ?
4427. Differences between galvanization versus nickel & zinc coatings
4429. Grit blasting before nickel plating
4430. RAL-Munsell color conversion
4431. Dichromal product
4432. Pink Brass
4433. Steel screws used in Anodize process
4434. Black Anodize Residue?
4435. Need chrome plating on poly carbon part
4437. Electro Acid
4438. Type 303 rust on solder ferrules
4439. HELP! Anodization Info Needed!
4442. p-toluensulfonic acid
4444. Adhesion problem on Kovar
4445. Laser absorber
4446. Setup of Clear Chromate from A to Z
4449. Problems with plating tin onto nickel
4450. Need some help - parts blistering
4451. Stripping hard chrome from Aluminium
4452. Sealing of Hard-anodized coatings
4453. Permalloy 45 - treatment machining processes
4454. Looking for gold & palladium recovery membranes
4455. GXP-1000
4456. Cadmium/Chromate on Nickel
4457. Cold Water Passivation of Ni Plate, Why?
4458. Advice On Chrome Plating Machines Needed
4459. Nickel sulphate supplier
4460. Aluminium assembling
4462. Iridite, Gold or Yellow?
4463. Hydrogen in Copper
4464. Solder causing adhesion problems
4465. Electroless nickel extrusion molds
4466. Etching problems with PCB tin resist
4468. Electroless Plating
4469. Cold rust bluing methods
4470. Plating Nickel Silver
4471. Lifting Sling Inquiry
4472. Mechanized method for stripping electroplated cobalt from cathode
4474. Macrocracks in Hard-chrome layer!
4475. Which Nickel For Severe Service
4476. Stripping copper plating from stainless steel
4477. Want to make gold salts
4478. Lithium deposition
4479. Purification of copper
4480. Identify Metal Finish Zactique
4481. Carbon contamination on stainless steel
4482. Anti-rusting property of degreaser
4484. In search of electroless nickel plating consultant
4485. Orthophosphate levels in Pyrophosphate tanks
4486. Looking For AMS 5643
4487. Electroless Nickel delamination
4489. Cyanide free cadmium plating
4491. Semi bright finish in silver plating
4492. Disposal of Electroless Nickel
4493. Plating On Silver
4494. Tribo Questions
4495. Parkerising Problems
4496. Hydrogen Embrittlement
4497. Platinum Plating On Titanium
4498. Archival painting on brass and copper, Primer?
4499. White Patches On The Chromate Passivated Zinc
4500. Phosphating
4501. Tin plating
4502. Seeking non-carcinogenic MIL-C-5541
4503. Brittle Nickel Coating
4504. Acid tin plating is rough
4505. Magnesium Dichromate
4506. Need to Degrease and Pickle in one bath
4508. Flash Rusting
4509. Stain on anodizing [forged material]
4510. Chrome plated copper tubing
4511. Bright anodizing 6061 Aluminum
4512. Electroless Nickel instability problems
4513. Electroless nickel over nitrided steel
4514. Dip Spin information needed
4515. Cost and method of gold plating
4516. Melting Tin
4517. Difference between chrome plating and conversion coating
4518. Silicone powder coating
4520. Fume hoods
4521. Barrel chromium plating
4522. SCW Sandblasting Material
4523. Information of gray coating
4524. Pitting of Cast Aluminum Engine Covers
4525. Marine anti-fouling coatings
4526. Removal for antique carvings
4527. Surface reactivity for adhesion
4528. Reclaim Zinc from Zinc Ferrous Sulphate Heptahydrate
4529. USDA Glass Beading Stainless Steel
4530. Zinc Migration into B7 Bolts
4531. Key Kote-38
4532. Waste Water Treatment
4533. Changing my black wrought iron finish to a "rusty" finish
4534. Alodine 1200 suppliers
4535. Aging aluminum for a vintage look
4537. Conductive layer on wax
4538. Copper plating small steel parts
4539. Distressing darkening aging the brass on a barstool
4540. Nickel plated spring failure
4541. Black Electroless Nickel Plating EN
4543. Alum. Polishing "How to get nice finish"
4546. Cyanide Electrolysis waste water treatment
4547. Mass Finishing Market $ Value?
4548. Coating Polished Brass
4550. Satin finish
4551. New Plating Facility Treatment Plant
4552. Zinc Phosphate and large metal parts
4553. Nickel solution grows
4554. TiN - Hydrogen Embrittlement?
4555. Treatment of electroplating waste
4557. Cyanide concentrations in zinc-CN plating?
4558. MIL-C-5541-E, Class 1a vs. Class 3
4559. Phosphate bath time
4561. Stripping Cleaning Molybdenum base parts
4562. Hard chrome plating of rolling dies
4564. Electropolish 4340 Steel?
4565. Powder coating of zinc electroplated steel parts
4566. DOE on eliminating rejects on barrel plating
4567. Tumbling with fine media
4568. Chemical activation of tool steels
4569. How to plate Nickel on top of Tin plate ?
4570. Can brass be made magnetic via plating?
4571. Danger in handling chromate coated items?
4572. Acid copper inert anode technology
4573. Unable to etch part # on Black Oxide
4574. Test to determine if part has been anodized
4575. Polish Aluminum on curve surface
4577. Salt spray and statistics
4579. Save brightness of Mg - alloy AZ31B
4581. Optical black anodize / Martin Black
4582. Emissivity of electroless nickel
4583. SO2 test
4584. Looking for electroless tin suppliers
4585. Zero defects on barrel zinc and clear
4586. copper sulphate investigation
4587. Scratching of Ti
4588. Appearance criteria for anodized surfaces
4589. Hard Anodizing of small dia. Aluminum tubing interiors
4590. Pickling of Stainless Steel Lube Oil System
4591. Brass Plating Hinges
4593. Refinishing aluminum pool trim
4594. Circuit Board protective coating
4595. Looking for Fluidized Dip Tank
4596. Aging Tinplate
4597. What is "pre-dip blackener" made of?
4599. Cyanide-free solutions
4600. Nitric acid substitute
4601. White paint effect on decorative cast Iron
4602. Acrylic Urethane or Powder Coat
4603. Powder coat warranty?
4604. Zinc plating 1060 steel
4606. Looking for satin copper plating process
4607. Zinc electroplating over Malleable and Gray Iron
4608. Electroplating, sherardising and anodizing
4609. Machinery to make aluminium bar code labels
4610. Sealing of black chrome
4611. Recovery of silver from strip solutions
4613. Clear chromate meeting mil specs?
4614. Electro Nickel Plating Process
4615. Details of zinc/Technigalva producers
4616. Nickel Electroplate Vs. Electroless Nickel
4617. Hard Anodizing
4618. Grinding hard chromium plating
4619. Fe phosphate coating with Inorganic zinc silicate
4620. Anode Polarization
4621. Metallic Impurities in the Nickel Bath
4623. Reduction of oil and hydrocarbons in wastewater
4624. Treatment of electroplating wastewater
4625. How do I activate my pot metal
4626. Analysis of HF in Mixed Acid Baths
4627. HVOF, Masking
4628. Tin plate on aluminum
4629. Info needed of camphor sulfonic acid
4630. Demineralization (Water Treatment)
4631. Painting over silver plate
4632. Plating build-up in tapped holes
4633. Early corrosion in soils with sulphates & chlorides
4634. "Arkansas" Hard oil stone
4635. Surface corrosion of 2024 T3 bare material
4636. Covering burnt or charred wood
4638. Chromate treatment of aluminium
4641. Looking for a fluidized bed coating system
4643. Refinish clear anodized aluminum
4644. Chromate Based Coatings
4645. Copper tarnishing prevention
4646. Protective coating for anodized Ti
4647. Tin-silver electroplating solutions for leadframe application
4648. Lubricant of organic coating for drawer parts
4649. Why still chromate?
4650. Used Epoxy Powders
4651. Copper patina or plating on tin/lead solder
4652. Uses For 20% Ammonia Solution
4653. Parker Amchem Corp. Suppliers
4655. Sealing and finishing of steel
4658. Re-anodizing
4659. Protecting copper fountain
4660. Buffing out scratches from a stainless steel refrigerator door
4661. I want to increase my Powdercoat knowledge
4663. Dust when varnishing gold plate
4664. Looking for coating hardness measurement shop
4666. Hard Chrome Pollution
4667. Post treatment coating for Salt Bath Nitriding
4668. Finishing method of Titanium for human body
4671. Durable black chrome
4672. Seeking black chrome plating of PC enclosures
4673. Fume fever from zinc sheets?
4674. Pretreatment of carbon steel for best adhesion
4675. Hydrogen embrittlement of spring
4676. Black Rhodium Plating
4677. De-embrittling copper plating
4678. Lower cost alternative to powder coat
4679. Anodizing Masking
4680. Plate-out on contact wheels of continuous plating machine
4681. Painting Brass for Marine environment
4682. Covering wood with metal (copper) paint
4683. Phosphating system layout & design
4685. Adhesion of Hard Chromium plating on AISI 410
4686. Manganese-phosphate coatings and their effect on electrical conductivity
4687. Can iron be chromated?
4689. Chemically polishing aluminum motorcycle parts
4691. Epoxy Powder Coating Over a Chrome Substrate
4692. Electroless Nickel On Extruders Moulds
4694. Cadmium whiskers on Hubble
4695. Uniform Hard Chrome Layer
4696. Dewetting of Ni and Sn plating on electronic components
4697. How to remove nickel plating from brass
4698. Compound For Removing Lens Scratches
4699. Gear guards for plating barrels
4700. Peeling of soft gold plating during post-machining
4702. Seeking fluoropolymer coating/ corrosion resistant coating
4703. Reusability of chromate rinsewater in alkaline zinc plating?
4705. Titanium coating or electroplating
4706. Acid-based electroless nickel stripper
4707. Problems upon changing solder plating from Sn60 to Sn96
4708. Contamination prevention for powder paint in tapped holes
4709. Plating aluminum for corrosion resistance, solderability, esthetics
4710. Maximum temperature for chrome-chromate conversion coatings
4711. How to achieve brushed aluminum finish
4712. Silver Plating on Nickel
4713. Hard chrome barrel plating
4714. Problem with adhesion of silver plate
4715. Problems with Tube Nuts
4716. Soldering Titanium
4717. Environmental aspects of electrolytic Zinc plating
4718. Aluminum cathode dissolution in sulfuric anodize tank
4719. Anodizing using AC superimposed on DC
4721. What is the fluorine after PTFE treatment?
4722. Copper Bus Bar, Industry Standard for Surface Finish
4723. Chromic acid flakes same as crystals? Copper heater okay?
4724. Titanium pretreatment for copper deposition from a sulphate bath
4725. Metal Coloring With Chemicals
4726. Nickel-Chrome Plating on ABS Plastics
4727. Coloring steel or aluminum
4728. Lifting photoresist
4729. Pretreatment of aluminium, and problems in chromate conversion
4730. Surface finishes for aluminum aircraft parts
4731. Nickel plating a ten foot stainless steel tube
4733. Brass and aluminium polishing ideas required
4736. Can't get part to anodize!
4737. Standards for electroless-nickel plating
4739. Nernst Equation as it applies to brass etching
4741. PVC Tank Linings for 85 degree C. use
4742. Chrome stripper
4743. How to keep steel from rusting while looking natural?
4744. How To Protect polished aluminum
4745. Epoxy Powder Coating over Galvanized Steel
4746. Ti anodizing color change in steam autoclave
4748. What leaches from stainless steel cookware?
4749. Cold seal adhesive
4750. Why does internal-stress occur?
4752. Anodizing of Galvanized Products
4753. Recycling of Cupric etchants
4754. Etching chemicals
4755. Effectiveness of "home" powder coating setups
4756. Electropolishing 440C Stainless
4757. Steam Sealing of Anodized Aluminum
4758. Cat-a-Lac Paint
4759. The best nickel?
4760. Nickel on firearms
4761. Techniques/recipes for coloring metal
4762. Relationship between clip thickness and current density
4765. Plating silica
4766. Dacrotising or Substitute needed
4767. Caustic Potassium Permanganate
4770. Black spots found on nickel plated surface
4771. Hydrogen Embrittlement of Galvanized Steel
4772. Electroless Nickel is Staining!
4773. Plastic ball plating
4774. ESD powder coating
4776. Silver Migration Inhibitor
4779. Looking for a Coating Thickness Gauge
4781. Rechroming of valve covers of show car
4782. Hard chrome plating of nitrided steels
4785. Silver cleaner
4785. Silver cleaners: "Quick Dip", "H.J. Hagerty" and "Noxon"
4785a.Preparation and post-treatment steps in Silver Plating
4786. Anodized Surface Finish different on different Aluminium Grades
4787. Anodizing of Al alloys
4788. Need Info On Liquid Coating Of I Beams Automatically
4789. Recommendations for bar rouge auto-feeders
4792. Looking for Permalloy Electroplating Service
4793. Electroless Nickel to protect Aluminum from sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide
4796. Coating/bonding metal on alumina
4797. Electroless Nickel Plating of Thin Parts
4798. Current Potential of Zinc-Iron Electroplating
4799. Modified Dye Stain Test
4800. What materials are OK with HF nitric ?
4801. Sulphates V Chlorides
4802. How to obtain grey passivate on zinc plating
4804. Want to give polished brass antique patina
4808. Alternative to Chromium Passivation for Zinc Plating
4809. Waste Treating Boron
4810. Cost of anodizing and plasma spray process
4812. Tank supplier for alodining aircraft parts
4813. Deburring small solid rings
4814. Acetate sealants
4815. Wrought Iron Preventative Maintenance
4816. Wanted Aluminum Wire heavy gauge
4817. Aqualac, Magnaguard
4818. Weld discoloration
4819. Corrosion behavior of nitrided steels
4820. How to restore an oxidizing aluminum gas tank?
4821. Gold coat on non-magnetic stainless steel
4822. Al 2xxx Surface Treatments
4823. Dual process
4824. How to etch designs into aluminum?
4825. Black oxidizer on aluminium
4826. Timed water additions..have you tried it and does it work?
4827. Black oxide fading on small parts
4828. Factors affecting ductility of Nickel plated parts
4829. Desmutting after a boiling seal
4830. Chemical or Electrochemical Polishing of High Purity Aluminum
4832. Pretreatment of aluminium automobile wheels for chrome plating
4834. When to Carbon Treat Bright Nickel
4835. Using Hull Cells for Silver Plating
4836. Function of Chloride in Acid Copper Plating Bath
4837. HF replacement/reduction for deoxidizing of Aluminum casting
4838. How can I electroplate MoCr?
4839. Elimination of Al outgassing when exposed to steam
4840. Bright dip problems
4842. Simple Test for Passivated Stainless Steel
4843. Limiting gas formation in sulphate-based acid Zn plating
4844. Salt Spray performance on galvanized steel
4846. Blistering Problem on Zinc Die Casting
4847. Any alternatives to chromic acid in galvanization process?
4848. Anodizing Aluminium
4849. Zinc Diecast plating problem
4850. Nickel plate resistance to seawater
4851. Blackening of aluminum
4852. Nickel Cobalt alloy plating
4853. Yellow vs. Black Chromate
4854. Tin-copper plating specifications
4857. Silver almac coating
4858. Coefficient of friction with steel
4859. ANSI specs. for Powdercoat Spray Rub
4860. Ramp-up Procedures for Electroforming
4861. Help needed in coating material
4862 .Plating glass fiber
4863. What's new in powder coating
4864. Coating metal with Teflon resin
4865. Comparison of accelerated corrosion testing
4866. Paint stripping from alloy wheels
4868. "Matte" Silver Why?
4869. Peroxide treatment of sulfamate nickel
4870. Electroless copper
4871. Chrome free type conversion coating for magnesium alloys
4872. Hot-dip galvanising alternatives
4874. EXPOSURE LIMITS - HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM
4875. Metal hydroxide sludge treatment plant/facility?
4878. Passivation, Cold ?
4879. Teflon Coating on Fiberglass
4880. Can stainless steel be electropolished in coil form?
4881. Using tapered bores as a datum
4882. Effect of metal finishes?
4883. Leadframe : Calculation of current and timer
4884. Anodize remover
4885. Hydrophilic coating Al film
4886. Reactions/byproducts/from the cleaning of a 316L fermenter w/nitric acid?
4887. Chromate touch-up on zinc plated steel
4888. Tracking with crowned pulley wheels
4889. Conveyor rust contaminates powder coating
4891. Source of information for microcrystalline, calcium modified zinc phosphate?
4892. Bath maintenance
4893. Zinc and chromate
4895. Removing scratches from clear acrylic sheet
4896. SCC of 7075 alloy
4897. Nickel electroless of foundry patterns
4900. Black Nickel Deposit
4902. Non reflective glass
4903. Nitric HF acid
4904. Health effects of working in a Nickel plating shop
4905. Copper-tin plating
4907. Graining or Grinding to reduce sheet thickness?
4908. Blacking of lead
4909. 5541E, alternate specification to and electrode potential
4910. heat scale removal
4911. Samples of stainless steel finishes
4912. History of anodizing
4913. D.I.Y. Nickel plating onto steel
4914. Copper Plating Oxidized
4915. BRONZE ELECTROFORMING
4916. Sealant for porous material before plating
4918. Vacuum wand for parts handling.
4919. DI water
4920. Is it detrimental to pretreat alkaline zinc yellow with an iron phosphate?
4921. Soldering Bright Nickel
4922. General info on autophoretic coatings
4923. Steel pipe protection at construction site
4924. Electrocoagulation for wastewater treatment?
4925. CHROME PLATING TROUBLE SHOOTING
4928. Protecting polished aluminum
4929. Parkerizing, Manganese Phosphating
4930. plated copper properties
4931. Nitriding and Shot Peening
4933. copper plating
4934. stainless steel: etching and patina?
4935. Lubricants for zinc plated fasteners
4936. Phosphated Steel Specs.
4939. Galvanic problems
4941. Removal of Polyester
4943. Looking for suppliers of anodizing related products & technologies for hard anodizing w/Teflon
4944. Having problems hardcoating aluminum
4945. Sheet metal surface variation measurement info requested
4946. Manganese Phosphating
4947. Chrome-free Bright Dip Alternatives for Copper and Brass
4949. Dendrite and whisker growth in solder plating
4950. Need info about Copper Electroforming & EDM electrodes
4951. Re-coloring aluminum extrusion
4953. "Old Bronze" Finish for Wrought Iron
4954. Designing a New Plating Shop
4955. Push Pull Ventilation
4957. Copper counter tops for my kitchen
4959. near white finish alternative
4961. Alodining
4962. high resistance & black finish on steel bolts
4963. Anodising masking solution.
4964. Screws: nickel or zinc plating.
4966. what is the best powder coating for my application?
4969. Millivolt resistance on silver plated Aluminium for electrical components
4970. Conductive thread film
4971. Help on plating Pd on aluminum alloys
4972. Metallurgical engineer exposure to EOL process
4973. PHOSPHATE COATING
4974. "Triple Chrome Plate?"
4976. Wastewater treatment for zinc process
4977. Inconsistent hard anodize colour
4978. Aluminum bright finishing
4980. Electropolish titanium, how?
4981. Sealing anodized Aluminum
4982. Finishing companies in south of England
4983. Rustproofing 410 stainless with a brazed joint... how best do we do it?
4984. Stripping chrome from nickel plated panel
4985. Hot to get white patina on brass/copper
4986. Anodizing racks get destroyed
4987. Anodic Coating Thickness Measurement
4988. How do I bring back my iron cookware
4989. Polish or engrave first?
4990. Basic annealing question...
4991. Color change on OFC copper material on heat treatment
4992. Removing zinc plating from stainless steel
4993. Acid concentration for hardcoat anodizing aluminum
4994. Plating on deep drawn steel parts for solderability
4995. Pulse plating of printed circuit boards
4996. Root cause for Hard Chromium plating defect
4997. Sulfuric acid concentrations and additions
4998. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process
4999. Antiquing or coloring galvanized sheet metal