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What is Electrolizing and Industrial Hard Chrome |
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Electrolizing is a proprietary thin dense chrome that is a “plate to size” hard coating that has shown to improve product’s life span by 1000 percent.
Hard Chrome is applied thicker to allow for grinding to size. Both coatings are applied directly to the base or substrate metal without needing an intermediate coating.
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Quality Chrome Plating Specialists |
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The coating thickness dimension and tolerance shall be specified on each part drawing. The practical coating range is from 0.000050”(50 millionths) to 0.0006”(6 ten-thousands) for the Electrolizing process. The tolerance is plus or minus ten percent of its true thickness. For industrial Hard Chrome for grind, plating should be between 50% to 25% of desired thickness after grind. For example, .004” thickness is recommended to achieve a .002” after grind plating. Additionally, if a .005” thickness is desired then a thickness of .008” to .010” is recommended.
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Internal and external surfaces on nearly all shapes and configurations can be uniformly coated.
In general, the exceptions are slots or grooves less than .120” wide, a slot or grove having a depth greater than its width (threads and splines included), and bores or holes less than .187” in diameter cannot be uniformly coated. |
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Generally, parts should be less than 120” in length, 40” in diameter and not exceed 1500 pounds. Parts in excess of these limits should be discussed with us.
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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Plating can be done on all ferrous and most non-ferrous metals; for example, tool steel, stainless steel, bronze, beryllium-copper, copper, and aluminum. The coating is not recommended for tin, magnesium, titanium, beryllium, columbium, and lead. |
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What kinds of metals can be chrome plated? |
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What are the plating size limitations? |
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Are there Surface Geometry limitations? |
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How thin or how thick should the coating be? |
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Electrolizing, Inc can meet many chrome plating specifications; for example, AMS 2460(QQ-C-320), AMS 2406, AMS 2438, Mil-C-23422, DPS 9.71, DPS 9.84, EMS 250, PS13102, PWA 48, and BAC 5709, and dozens of others. Please contact us with your process specification. |
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What plating specifications are met by Electrolizing? |
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Electrolizing Inc. 1947 Hooper Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90011 Phone: 213-749-7876 Fax: 213-749-9880 |
