Many Kind of Electroplating Product

You can see on the below picture many kind of product with electroplating process on their finishing, each kind of finishing product can be proposed to special uses.

Motor Wheel

Car Wheel or Motorcycle Wheel always being plated because it will look better and bright also to prevent from corrode because of often contact with water, and other dirt or waste. It must use Electroplating Process use metal better than the original metal can prevent from corrode like chromium. So car wheel use chromium plating.

Helmet

For soldier helmet being chromium plating may in order look grate and to prevent from corrode. On the practice usually just using paint is enough.

Brass Coated

Coated with brass usually not using electroplating but just spray to the part and rubbed with cloth. But this method can make brass strong stick to the material. By electroplating process make brass stronger stick to the material, and it is look like gold plating.

Gold Plating

Gold Plating or people said gilding, gold plating usually use for jewelry because it look like gold but cheaper. Part with gold plating usually will use in special application, may the environment very corroded so it need noble material to coated, like gold or silver.

Interest to Electroplating

If we asking why people interest to the process of electroplating even those people don’t know the chemistry or chemical process. Electroplating actually pure chemical engineering knowledge even the graduate from chemical engineering still don’t exactly the how to produce a good product using electroplating. On the plant it may combine with electrical engineering knowledge because of process need to regulate the electric current and voltage. Some reason why people want to know this process as follows:

• Many product become look artistic after electroplating process apply, even this process need perfect step to get really good finished product.
• Product become more expensive after finished with electroplating process, compare with the raw material itself.
• Plastic can be finishing by electroplating and look very great and look like metal even the strong of this product is less than metal.
• They still don’t know the difficulties on all the process to producing electroplating product include the regulation on clean production.

To make you more understand to the electroplating product you can overview on the pictures below:

Electroplating Product

White bright product is use electroplating with nickel and finished with chrome plating. Black or grey color may apply with nickel plating then with chromium plating but using different electric current. Gold color bright product is combination chemical processes in order get this art color. This process still being patented, so you can’t produce this kind product without buy the patent. You can buy tool kit to produce this but actually you also have paid the patent.

Example of Electroplating Products

Find some example of Electroplating:





Chrome Plating can be implemented to many products. The product that are resulted from this process like on many accessories, car wheel to place car tire, car handle, bicycle wheel, door handle, reflector and many plastics product that accomplishes with this process.

Every product may use different process parameter to result suitable product. Sometime use chromium electroplating process, may use gold plating process, silver plating or just enough by using nickel plating, it depend on the need of that product for.

The examples of product that use described process are as follows:

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