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Tips for specifying electroless-nickel coatings
Electroless-nickel plating is specified in a wide variety of applications to provide corrosion and wear resistance. Grooves, slots, blind holes, threads, and even the inside of tubing will have the same coating thickness. The coating uniformity of the electroless-nickel process helps maintain tight
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High-Tech, Space-Age Metal Surface Enhancement Coating Solves Wear and Release Problems for Pine Instrument Company's Gyratory Compaction Asphalt Testers
. The high-tech matrix technology enhances wear resistance by virtually eliminating shear fracture, the prime cause of wear. Wear resistance of PLASMADIZE is superior to nickel or hard chrome plating. Polymers and dry lubricants combine synergistically to make the coating self-lubricating and impart
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Contact UsHow to Assess Cell Suppliers for your Custom Battery Packs (.pdf)
discharge rate. correlated to the chemistry of the cells used. Nickel-. But the `real world' isn't a perfect one, and battery systems. based chemistries are capable of rapid charging (in. must handle extreme variations in temperature and high. some cases under an hour), while Li-Ion batteries can
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Using a nondestructive test to qualify corrosive specialty gas cylinders
, and adhesion are dependent on the coating process and on the steel-surface preparation done prior to applying the coating. The cross-section micrograph in Figure 6, for example, shows an electroless-nickel-coated cylinder surface that had been poorly prepared by an outside plating supplier
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Slick as a whistle, hard as a rock
Nibron, a coating of nickel, thallium, and boron, improves wear and hardness on aerospace and automotive components. Several military jets, including the Air Force's new fighter, the F-22 Raptor, have engine components coated with Nibron to reduce wear. This chart shows that Nibron is harder than
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Anodized Aluminum Helps Focus On The Elusive Neutrino
The prototype horn's entire structure and coatings are held to tolerances of +-0.01 in. Critical high-current surfaces are masked from anodizing because they must be silver plated. The inner conductor is coated with electroless nickel. A proprietary anodizing process put a protective coating
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Thermal spray: Better performance for less
coating processes are gaining a reputation for being economical and friendly to the environment. An example comes from the auto industry, where tests evaluated nickel-chromium plated components for exterior exposure. CASS (copper-accelerated saltspray) testing simulates service conditions
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A pinch of hafnium could extend life of turbine blades
to improve oxidation before causing catastrophic oxidation failure. In commercial coating production, it is extremely difficult to uniformly distribute such a small amount of metals economically. But the new nickel-rich bond coat exhibited low oxidation rates over a wide concentration, from 0.5 to 4