American Plating Company
The Gate District - Saint Louis:
Metal Polisher/ Plater
JOB SUMMARY: Entry Level Performs polishing duties, maintains polishing lathes, and organizes work functions relating to polishing. Performs plating duties, maintains plating and cleaning baths and...
How To Polish DULL, Oxidized Metal!
Did you know that dull metal lets down the look of any automobile? Restore the mirror-finish to any polished chrome, stainless steel, aluminum, gold, or silv...
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We’ve written about tank plating on this blog before – the process of plating a metal onto metal items that have been placed into plating tanks. For that process to work, the items to be plated must be electrically charged – in other words, they must be made of metal. So that leads to an interesting
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Everything You Need to Know about the Corrosion of Copper Metal
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Learn How Can It Be Avoided
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Are All 3D Printed Metals the Same?
With so many different 3D printing (aka additive manufacturing) metal systems and processes today, how can you know exactly what you’re getting?
How a Super Air Knife Helps with Metal Etching
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How Photo Etching and Electroforming Apply to Metal Filtration
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What are Dimensional Tolerances for Photo Etching Metals?
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Plastic Bonded to Metal: When is clean really clean?
As a general rule, most plastics are amenable to plasma modification and have the surface area to achieve a good bond. Metals, on the other hand, can present unique challenges. Particulates, films, residue and even invisible pitting or scaring of the material can impede bonding.
Cleaning Tips When Soldering Bronze Sheet Metal
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3 Tips for Metal Stamping in the Energy Industry
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Metal Core Lasers or Ceramic Core Lasers?
Metal core lasers offer broad power options and an unlimited lifetime for a variety of laser material processing applications.
Can Hip Implants Really Cause Metal Poisoning?
Metal-on-metal hip implants associated with metallosis, a condition in which metal fragments enter the bodily tissues and bloodstream and lead to poisoning.
How to Retain Material Properties During Sheet Metal Working
Precision Micro has been offering photochemical etching of aluminum for several years. Their process produces burr-free and stress-free precision parts that can be manufactured with reproducible accuracy and have no areas affected by heat.
What Makes A Metal Powder Suitable? Researchers Examine Powders in AM Processes
Metal 3D printing is becoming a vital source of production for a wide range of industries today, and a unique underrstanding of the required materials continues to grow around it.
When metals become insulators and back again, it's math to the rescue
A recent paper by Carnegie's Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov provides a new mathematical foundation that successfully predicts not only when external forces drive metals to become insulators, but also the reverse transition -- to make insulators conduct like metals.
Want to 3D-Print an Airplane? Look to Laser Metal Deposition
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Platinum-gold mix becomes world's most durable metal alloy
Sandia engineers have developed the most durable metal alloy ever created. Made up of a combination of platinum and gold, the new material is 100 times more wear-resistant than high-strength steel, and the first metal alloy to join the same class as diamond. It also produces its own lubricant.
